WOYWW 404

Hello and welcome back again to What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday!  Every week we take a sneak peak of other crafters desks from around the world, all courtesy of our Julia.  Click here for more information:)

Very short post this week...

In my quest to attempt to fill in all the purple work this week, absolutely nothing has been added to Felicity the Lobster.  You'll notice that I failed in my quest, but there is always next week:)  I worked on this every spare minute I had (a lot of them this week), which puts into perspective how time consuming this project is.

In the next week, I intend to finish the purple work off on SYDNEY, start cross stitching my mum's birthday card (which I hope to show you as she has no online presence), look into starting a baby sampler, and spend at least two evenings concentrating on Felicity.  Here's hoping.

Thanks for stopping by.  I'll do my best to get to as many desks as possible this week.  Have a great week everyone!

WOYWW 403

Hello and welcome back again to What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday!  Every week we take a sneak peak of other crafters desks from around the world, all courtesy of our Julia.  Click here for more information:)

In the last week, I have...

 ...progressed with the purple work on Sydney.  It is filled in and encases the N, E and second Y.  I'm now working in the purple within the D.

Felicity the Lobster has had a deep blue added, some black work completed, and she now has her eyes!

Short and sweet this week as there really hasn't been much time away from work.  I apologise to those I didn't visit last week, I think I got around half of you so will endeavour to do better this week (it helps that i'm at work today).

If you've got the time, please try to see some of the other crafty desks around the world.  See you all next week!

WOYWW 402

Hello and welcome back again to What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday!  Every week we take a sneak peak of other crafters desks from around the world, all courtesy of our Julia.  Click here for more information:)

I didn't get as much crafting done in the last week as I would have liked.  I'm finding it hard to create an equal balance of home, work, swimming and crafting.  Not enough hours in the day.

What I did manage:

 I made quite a lot of Gluten free Lebkuchen.  This picture is the third tray I made.  I made them primarily as a gift for my friend Amy, who had her birthday yesterday and I made them with gluten free flour because my mum wanted to try one.   I also made Vegan chocolate brownies for my friend Joe who had his birthday last Friday.  I forgot to take a picture of them.  Doh.

 Amy and Joe's cross stitched birthday cake cards.  The card and envelopes are by Artoz from a shop in town.  Amy had the Strawberry cake card and Joe had the other.  The '1,2,yeah yeah' on his card is in reference to the fact he is one of the sound engineers at my pub and that is what he says when he is testing out the gear.  The cupcake on his card is the first I have stitched freestyle without a chart - all from my head.  I was dubious at first, but I like it now.

 Sydney progressed.  The letters in Sydney are now complete  I did more purple work above the e and second Y and pink work below the n.  This is going to take a long time.

This picture is for WOYWW regular, Anne.  She took the time to stop by my blog last week and said she was intrigued by the star on my motivation board that reads 'Felicity the Lobster'.  I started stitching it in between the San Francisco and Sydney tapestries as I needed a smaller scale break for a while.  I will keep working on it.

I saw a similar video to this the other day and thought it was magic! I shall be making one soon, I hope! 

Thank you for popping by.  If you have the time, I hope you will visit some of the other deskers on this week's WOYWW.

See you next week!

WOYWW 401 I'm back!

Welcome to another installment of What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday, as courteously hosted by our Julia here!

I haven't taken part since 2015.   You might have known me as Catlovesbear.  I stopped posting because my friend Fairythoughts passed away and I completely lost my crafting mojo.  Nearly all of 2016 was a miserable crafting void.  Until I got myself a motivational board:

 As ever, there are other projects going on all the time.  Currently, I'm knocking up two birthday cards.  I hope to feature them next week after both the recipients have received them.

 My big project at the moment is the Sydney tapestry I bought from a lovely lady called Hannah Bass at last October's Knit and Stitch show at Ally Pally.  Click on her name to see her full range of tapestries.

I bought the Sydney after I finished the San Francisco I bought at the same event a year prior.  I hope to go again this October but can't decide whether to buy the blue and yellow New York, Rome, Seattle or Vancouver!

This has been lovely.  Thank you very much for taking the time to stop by and see what I've been doing.  I hope you might also have time to take a look at another WOYWW blogger today:)

See you next week.