WOYWW594

 Hello and welcome back to my blog as part of What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday, hosted by the lovely Julia.  This is going to be very short and sweet by necessity... In addition to teaching on other courses at the university, I run a Masters course and my students start on Friday so I am battling technology to try and set up a hybrid teaching session - some of them will be on-line (one poor chap is stuck in India for the next few weeks) and some of them will be in the lecture theatre (spaced out and all of us wearing masks). The potential for disaster is high so pray for me on Friday morning!

Anyway, enough of work - here is my desk as it was last night... I have started making a Christmas card or two!  You can see I have been heat embossing for the first time in forever so there is scrap paper, embossing powder, stamps, ink, brushos, note pad and my mug of tea.

These are the two cards so far. I can't actually decide if I like them, but at least it is 2 cards completed!

At the moment I sit at this desk all day to work so everything has to be tidied away each evening and then the lap top placed on the desk.  The only advantage of this is that I have been able to sit and watch this tree through the seasons turn from bare branches, to bright pink cherry blossom, to green leaves and now to these gorgeous orangey leaves. The photo doesn't do it justice - the colours are far more vibrant than it appears.

I have to finish now - need to prep for student presentations this afternoon, and for teaching on Friday (assuming nothing changes before then!), so I will leave you with a silly photo from the weekend and another swim photo from Monday evening. - my therapy after crazy busy days.  Take care everyone, and stay safe.  Do get in touch if there is anything I can do for you.

With love & God Bless,

Caro

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WOYWW 593

Firstly a massive apology - I utterly failed to visit anyone last week due to all chaos breaking out with teaching at the Uni.  We have been shut down temporarily in terms of face-to-face teaching and are currently teaching everything on-line, many of the students are self-isolating because they or house mates have tested positive for COVID (fortunately none of them are very ill and the uni is looking after them well) and so my workload has increased exponentially. Anyway, enough of work - you are here to see my desk as part of Julia's What's on Your Workdesk blog hop.

Needless to say there is not a lot on my desk as there hasn't been a lot of time for crafting!  What you can see is my mug, a calendar I was given for my birthday and a swimming medal.  The medal was for swimming 10km outdoors in the month of September.  

The calendar was from a fellow outdoor swimmer and features some fun paintings of people swimming outdoors. 

I have managed a little crafting at the back of my Hobonichi weeks - this page separates out the calendar section from the notes section.

And this one comes later in the notes section.

I am continuing with the wild swimming this month and trying to do another 10km this month, which will be harder due to the water dropping in temperature (this lake is now 12oC).  I have had some beautiful swims in the sun (and some in the rain!) in the lake in this park - it is wonderful watching the trees change colour - so beautiful. That's all from me for now. I will try and visit you all this week now things are a little more under control. Please do all take care of yourselves, and shout if you need anything. Stay safe out there.

With love & God Bless,

Caro

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WOYWW 592

 Hello and welcome to my blog for another edition of What's on Your Workdesk, courtesy of the lovely Julia.

This is my desk as it was yesterday morning - covered in some lovely goodies - Birthday presents from my boys. A mixture of stamps, stickers and stencils and then a fiendishly difficult 3D Hogwarts jigsaw.

Here is my desk yesterday evening - utter chaos as I play in my art journal - the stickers, ink pads, and stamps are all over the place, and you can see my mug of tea (half-drunk at this point).

This is the art journal page that I was working on - a very autumnal spread.  Round here the leaves are beginning to turn on some trees, although most are still green. I think they will all be turning in about a week or so.

I have been keeping my Hobonichi weeks diary up to date this week, so here are the latest pages from that.

I had a lovely birthday yesterday consisting of a treat breakfast and presents in bed before Alex went to school, then a wonderful 800m swim in the lake with a friend..

...who brought cake for afterwards!

Tim took me out for a lovely meal at lunchtime, and then I had the afternoon off to read, craft and relax before Alex came home and we had birthday cake and watched a film. A pretty perfect day.

I hope that you are all keeping well and staying safe.  At  uni we have a lot of students who now have COVID (thankfully with mild symptoms) or are self-isolating due to housemates who have it. As a result all teaching plans are changing daily. To make matters more complicated, the postgraduate students haven't returned yet. They start at the end of October - by then Sheffield may be in local lockdown! I have no idea how my teaching this term will go so I am having to plan for both live on-line sessions and face-to-face sessions.

Take care and stay safe. With love and God bless,

Caro

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