WOYWW 131 My Inner Voyeur is Pleased

In my blog perusing days (as opposed to my more recent blog ownership days) I liked to browse around for ideas and inspiration. One of the things I noticed was that people would post cards for various blog hops or challenges.  I really considered that to be cool and it seemed like a great way to get motivated to actually make something.  Plus, the challenges had guidelines to follow.  I find that I do better when I have a starting point.  I thought that someday I would have my own blog and could play along and wouldn’t that be fun?!

Now I have my own blog and have done a few challenges.  However, right now I have been concentrating on my own personal challenge of making holiday cards using my Rule of Five and getting them addressed and out the door.  That has not stopped me from poking around the web and looking at what challenges are out there.

Then I ran across one that was so exciting and thrilling and different that I couldn’t wait to join in.  It is called What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday and you don’t have to make anything for it.  You just have to share a photo of your workspace in all its glory and perhaps talk about what is going on in that workspace.  There are about 100 people who play!  That means 100 different workdesks and projects to check out.

Oh!  How this makes my inner voyeur happy.  I love to see the space where people play and create.  Plus, I often hear my crafty friends say that there is no way, no how, not even any chance they would ever share pictures of their craft area because it is too much of a disaster area.  Who are they kidding?!!  Any crafter or hobbyist knows that the disaster is part of the fun.  That creative mess is where it is happening.  If you are busy cleaning house than you are not busy creating!

I’m sharing my workdesk and even some related areas so I can play along.  What I worked on last night (the Wednesday in question) is sitting smack dab in the middle of my desk.  I am trying to get the prescription in that bottle moved from the evil non-customer-service-giving drug store to the nice, friendly, helpful grocery store pharmacy.  The grocery store is willing but they warned me they will have a hard time getting a hold of evil drug store.

Yeah, so not craft related...  The only other thing I’ve done sort of craft related this week is address cards for The Holiday That Shall Not Be Named.  There is evidence of that as well.  My pen is right next to the bottle. My address book is the black covered book on the right side of my desk and next to that are a few addressed envelopes.  That plastic bag has stickers in it that I like to decorate the envelopes with and under that are more envelopes. 

I included a photo of the stash next to my desk out of sight of that first photo.  That wooden crate is filled with the holiday cards I have already made.  All my A Muse Studio holiday stamp sets are there, as is a circle punch, a snowflake corner punch, more card blanks (the plastic square container), a little bit of holiday paper, and a box of embroidery floss.  I used the floss on tags I made recently and haven’t put it away yet.  In fact, the colors I used are still on my desk, somewhere in that rubble.  The round container used to hold blank CDs but now it has spools of ribbon in it.

Just for grins, I included a shot of what is under my desk.  I haven’t put my feet under my desk in forever.  I like to put my feet up anyway, so they go on the metal rung of that little stool.  There is all sorts of other random things down there too—my two score boards, a container of red and pink 12x12 paper, pre-printed card bases, a container of quarter sheets of patterned paper, a brown leather zip pouch for colored pencils and other patterned paper pads.  AND you can tell I was sick on Monday and decided to forego the Monday night vacuuming.  The cats were pleased with that decision.  The carpet, not so much.

So that’s my desk and surrounding mess.  I wonder if joining WOYWW more often will encourage me to keep it a bit more under control.  Hmm?  I guess we’ll have to wait and see.