Happy Wednesday Dear Reader, that’s halfway through a busy week and i am celebrating the halfway point this week! And hello to those joining us from WOYWW? I have had a busy busy week this week, a class at Girls Brigade on Monday night to add to all the usual to-ing and fro-ing that happens, so my desk is still untidy if not with different mess than last week.
Well i best tidy this mess so i can do some crafting! I will try and get round as many desks as i can
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
Hello Dear Reader, and followers of woyww? i haven’t been able to join the fun of this massive blog hop around the creative desks of the world for some time due to ill health but i am with you today :) yay!
So what's on my desk today?
Erm .. . .. .. Not a lot! lol I have just cleared down to start some festive projects today so i needed a clear desk. So not very exciting from me this week but makes a change for me for it not to be messy in these posts!
Happy woyww!
Charlie. x
Good morning Dear Reader and all woyww’ers; do you still have snow?! Some one needs to remind Mother Nature that we would like some Spring please!! The snow is finally starting to melt here but apparently we have more to come at the end of the week…….Joy! O well i can’t control the weather but i can craft and i plan to make my own version of spring this week by making lots of springy {is that a word?!} projects.
But for now here is my desk as it ends Tuesday; it will see no action apart from a tidy up as we have family over today.
Practically the same as it was last week but with a load of Stampin’ Up! party invites and what not's dumped on top as i decided to spring clean all weekend starting with our bedroom where i found i had loads of craft bits that had somehow got up there so they needed to come back down to the craft area. I drove Mr.C potty as always when i get bit by the tidy bug as i am normally the poster girl for organised chaos, but when get the urge to purge the clutter i go all out but i also have a habit of not finishing each room before starting another! lol so once he had pulled me up on that and we’d finished the upstairs before starting on my craft area i managed to set myself up a cutting and big-shotting or should that be shooting(?) area. The new computer desk means that the girls craft stuff has vacated my sideboard so i have organised it much better.
So i now have my big shot all ready to go with my punches next to it, i have my trimmer, guillotine, and scoreboard in one drawer and all my dies and embossing folders in the other, its the perfect height for cutting and die cutting and if i lift my big shot away the lamp makes for a perfect place for taking my blog photos.
Well that's my workspace for this week i shall go and tidy my main desk area before the school run so that i am free to hop round blogs until my grandparents arrive for lunch; i hope to get round as many as possible but at the very least to every one who visits me.
Until Next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
Hello Dear Reader; today is Wednesday {well 5pm Tuesday night but my desk won’t change between now and then :) } so that is when crafters from across the globe bare all and show their desks in varying degrees of the creative process. If you would like to know more hop along to the queen of this massive blog hop Julia at the Stamping Ground, but do join if you can its is great fun and highly addictive.
So here is my now two desks as due to the computer issue we have had to have a desktop and so that meant a new desk so in this picture you can see both. I am currently sitting typing at the computer under the stairs which is actually a desk from my old room at my grandparents house and do you know that now that the computer is in another room i am actually getting more work done as i don't keep getting distracted by pinterest!!
Not a lot on my desk at the moment a few stamp sets as Mr.C had me stamp a wooden box for him to keep all his seeds in that also looked nice on the shelf as the shed would be too cold and damp a place for the seeds (?! so he says i don’t know!) i plan to have a big tidy up as i did a craft fair at the weekend and the boxes are not unpacked yet and then i can get on with preparing for my next events. Also its craft night at mine again today so i shall have to be tidy so that we can all have somewhere to sit down! :D If you would like to see the results of my suitcase boot fair find you can find it on yesterdays post.
I am planning to hop around to as many desks as i can today.
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
Hello Dear Reader and woyww’ers can you believe that it is already nearly the end of February already!?! I know i can’t; this year is flying by. I have been very busy this week getting things ready for a Spring Fair that is coming up in March.
Lots of chocolate to fill lots of treats with and the mini milk cartons that i had been making the other week are now finished and here they are;
So for the rest of the day i shall be cracking on with more Easter baskets. Me and Mr.C did a boot sale at the weekend to clear some of the junk we seemed to have accumulated and after clearing lots of the junk and ending up in good profit i relieved the man on the next pitch of a vintage steamer trunk that i have good ideas for and visions of it becoming a display piece for my wares, i will share with you once it is done.
It’s craft group tonight at mine, so i had best get on so i can get cleared up for all the ladies to come too i love how social crafting can be.
If you would like any products used to produce this project then please contact me craftylittlemoo@hotmail.co.uk
Until Next Time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
Hello dear reader and woyww’ers i do hope you are all well? My good plans have been thwarted this week by half term and the dreaded lurgy has made a return, though as i am feeling a bit better today i hope to get some stamping done.
Not much going on on the old desk today, i had a delivery on Monday so that is what's on my desk lots of lovelies that hopefully i will get to use today.
I shall try to get around as many other blogs as possible.
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.xx
there were no craft shops in the UK. You can also see some small strips of DSP with Easter eggs on. These mini milk cartons are what the egg DSP was for i made 15 the other day and i will be further decorating them and them filling with chocolate. 
Hello all, quick post from me today as i have a class to get myself ready for tonight.
Can you guess what I've been up to?
I shall get round as many desks as possible, once all my prep is done. Thanks for all your kind comments i will always try to get round to at least those that comment on mine but sometimes the word recognition doo-dah stops me.
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
Hello woyww’ers and all that follow, quite a tidy desk from me today; i spent all weekend making sure that you could see all my surfaces and then i had a poorly M so not much got done in between so its still tidy ready for me to mess up later today!
So that's me for the day, i shall get round as many blogs as i can today but hopefully i shall be off getting inky :)
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
P.s if anyone would like to know about the latest promotions from Stampin’ Up! that i mentioned the other week please see the tab at the top. {sorry Julia xx}
Morning All!! I have the dreaded lurgy this week and no voice {prob to the joy of my hubby 
SO here’s my desk this morning, as i was ill in bed all weekend hubby did a scoop and drop from dining table to here so that we could have his birthday tea yesterday the big rosette is what i had made to go on his cake. There’s some remnants of the brown paper that our SU goodies come protected by because i flatten it all down and slice it through my guillotine and make bedding for our guinea piggy's other than that not much exciting. The card up in the air on the wall is on bakers twine ‘washing lines’ where i hang bits to dry or just keep safe till I'm finished will be in one of my upcoming classes.
Happy desk hopping every one
Until Next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
Morning all, not much happening on my desk had a class and crop at the weekend so cleared the debris after that and took photos for my blog as you can see by the piece of ds blue tacked up as my background, hopefully get some creating done today.
Its so gloomy today i may go and grab yet another desk lamp to try and give me some decent light!
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Until Next Time
Ttfn
Charlie.x
Happy New Year Desk Snoopers! 
So onto the desk……. its a mess! I got two new trimmers for Christmas and 10 stamp sets!! I was obviously a good girl but now i have the space problem and am double stacking my shelves.
You can see one of my new trimmers in this photo i am SO in love its brilliant!! But i have been productive not just stroking my new stash! lol I have prepped a class that i am teaching at the weekend at the Cambridge Scrapbooking and Card making Club; and all bar the bits for one of the cards which i need to cut today all the projects are prepped and ready on my window sill.
And i have even spread my mess to the brand new dining table that arrived 3 days after Christmas and the top of the dresser, where my other new trimmer is living at the mo..
So on my to do list today is to finish cutting for the last project and load my boxes up and then tidy my space and the bits I've spread to!
I shall try and get round as many blogs as possible today i don't think i shall do as well as my last post of all of them before noon but hey a girl can try! lol
Have a healthy happy new year.
Until Next time
Ttfn
Charlie.xx
And this was my desk by the end of the night as while i was crafting i was also multi tasking in the kitchen gingerbread on one work surface and vanilla and chocolate bean shortbread to do our thank you gifts for the teachers, lollypop man, bin men, and the postie.
Not a lot on my desk this morning as i had to clear it last night as today my eldest is 6 {! eep!!} so we will have the usual gaggle of family tonight after school so surfaces will be in demand.
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.xx
Well hello to all that follow time for a snoop around creative desks
Not much going on yet, the Jane Austen book i am turning into a Christmas tree later today, the scotch tape i plan to use the card board label that's in side as a template to make a pretty tape dispenser ;) other than that some retired papers i used for my daughters party invites. I shall be baking today though as it is craft group night tonight at mine so i think we need cake lol.
Until next time
Charlie.xx
Morning All, hope you are all well, this will be a picture heavy post as i have as the title suggests had a bit of a change so the first photo will be my desk last thing at night – nothing will have changed since then as i have only been up a little while! lol And then i will show you my re organisation and the change of look in my craft area for those that wanna stick around :)
So this is what is on my desk at the moment; the start of my convention swaps turned over so as not to spoil the surprise for the recipients, a gift from my friend and upline Bekka, a few new stamps, and a couple of stray hair clips.
SO the last few weeks i have posted pictures of my huge pile of mess; well this week i tidied it all up, and i mean ALL i pulled everything off the shelves and sorted through it all before putting it away i also reclaimed a dresser from the children’s craft stuff to put all mine away out of sight.
So now that it was tidy i was thinking i don’t really like the fabric on my chair and footstool anymore and in our new house we have a different colour scheme so it was time for a change so off i popped to the local had dash and an afternoon and evenings work with the staple gun and hammer later here we are;
Before After
This time i went for a nice mocha brown with a silvery tree pattern on which toned in well with our creams and browns in the living room.
Here are the rest of the shots of the chair, footstool {that Mr.C made a while ago} and a new notice board to match.
if you are still with me thank you for looking what do you think of the change?
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.xx
Morning WOYWW’ers and all who follow just a quick one from me as i am planning on getting some prototypes made up for craft fairs today before doing the worst mummy task of the year – new school shoe shopping this afternoon!! Cue a few tantrums {mine mostly} and lots of no you CANT have those!!
Bit messy will have to tidy up before i can get started its so dark here this morning i think we are in for some rain so i shall be grabbing the extra lamps today i think i just cant craft in the dark!! Was up late crafting last night so that i could put my pre order of the upcoming Stampin’ Up Seasonal Catalogue –one of the benefits of being a demo getting my grubby mitts on new stash earlier than it goes nationwide!
Will try my best to get round to every one today but it maybe more like next Wednesday before i finish! lol
Until next time
Ttfn
hello all, i hope you have been enjoying the nice weather it is very hot here especially at night which is not helpful for sleep so i have two very grumpy girls today who unbeknown to them will be having a sleep after lunch. I am now posting to you from a sun lounger in the garden in a pair of cut offs that i just created from a pair of jeans that a lovely friend told me was doing me no favours! lol – happy days.
As some of you are aware i often take part in a massive global blog hop on Wednesdays where we all snoop at each others workspaces, well i have had a few emails asking how i store so much in a small space. Well the answer to that is i don’t! lol I do have a small space in the dining end of our living room but i store a lot of stuff under our bed such as stamps i very rarely use but cant bare to part with, and display pieces that i have made for craft fairs etc.
Before we moved at the start of the year my desk was in the walkway of the living room and was only 110cm x60 to get it to fit the space it is in now i has to lose 20cm of that length so it is now less than a metre!!
This will be a picture heavy post so grab yourself a cuppa and i shall begin;
As you can see this is next to my ‘overflow’ desk also known as a dining table!
Above i have two shelves;
On the top shelf i have a Large box filled with my 12x12 paper and the scraps from DSPs.
The middle box is full of my cardstock scraps – quite recently i was very ruthless with is box so if i was two small to be made into a card blank i either punched a shape out of it of threw it in the bin!
Above that are 3 A4 placky boxes that contain bits that i have been working on and not finished yet or just bits that need to be put back in their homes. One of the boxes has all my Christmas samples in an effort to kick start my Christmas crafting {hasn’t happened yet but i live in hope!}
Then the last pile of boxes in the white box i have my cardstock and DSP samples so that i can show customers at workshops
Next to that is my swap box this contains all my swaps from the last event i attended and when i go to the next event this is what i take my swaps in. On top of that is my prettied up cash tin. And in the not so pretty Xerox box is my punch soup boxes – this so needs a prettier 
Next to my printer i keep my catty box including past catalogues for SU and my lovely pink i pod it is a 1st generation i pod mini and i just cant give it up and replace it cos its pink and has been with me all through college and growing up and still works i got it when i worked in an electrical store, when they first launched and you couldn't get them anywhere that Christmas for love nor money.
Right to the other side of the room where i actually do the creating :)
So this is my desk it is made from a fire door blank that i picked up in the off cuts section at our local builders merchants, as it is a fire door it is incredibly solid and fab for stamping on as there is no ‘bounce’ it has been sealed with yacht varnish so is super durable my hubby paints every bit of wood in my area with this.
The cream cubby holds my inkpads and punches and has a salvaged slate top where my lamp, clock and other necessities live.
In the wicker basket that i got from Jacqui on the market for only £4! lives my pretty pen pot that Mr C brought me which was his way of telling me he was building me a desk last year in our old place after a year with out one! The basket houses pens, my lesser used tools such as massive scissors, inky sponges, some left over card blanks i hadn't used yet and clear blocks.
My current notice board is on here also at the mo. made with SU twitterpated fabric and lush pre-pleated ribbon it will live here for a little while till i send it to someone as a gift and make myself a new one.
Two shelves again here top one has another lamp my 12x12 cardstock, two files of A4 cardstock, my wheel stamps and stamp sets that are retired and i just don’t want to part with. I have also put my Christmas ones on this shelf so that they’re all together.
Next shelf i have my Envelopes {need to order more lol} in front of that are the watercolour wonder crayons and my stash of tombow glue i have about 5 bottles atm 2 open i cant bare not to have some in in case i run out! Then my brads and buttons, some stampin’ spots then current stamp sets and my case of markers which house all the colours that SU make i use these more than my inkpads now so worth the investment.
This is my rolling Big shot cabinet that Mr.C made it also has a salvaged slate top. As you can see my dies are on the shelf, my big bite in the side compartment and the white basket is where my ribbons live at the moment.
And this is my crafting chair i actually have two of these but one is stored for now, i have plans to re-upholster it again as i am off red but i just cant seem to find a fabric i love – any suggestions?? it just needs to go with creams and coffee colours as it is in the living room.
So that is my craft space for now, this is where i will be moving too in the hopefully not so distant future
If you are still reading thanks for sticking with me i told you it was picture heavy! lol
Until next time
Ttfn
