WOYWW 151 and Last Call for Candy

Oops, this page has changed - what is Blogger doing?  Hope it uploads ok as I am off to bed, having had a late night and wanting an early morning for WOYWW.  (Crikey Mikey, had a problem with the link just then!!!)

Don't forget my blog candy - quite a few unmounted stamps there for whoever - it's just above this post and ends next Monday - or click the big hat opposite.

Thanks to those who put their number down last week, makes life so much easier.

Still cannot share my Jewel Goddess things from last week with you but they will probably be up by next time WOYWW'ers come to visit.  Spent far too long playing with these and not all that smitten with the end results.

So here is my desk, as you can see I have been playing with my new toy - the sewing machine.  Love it!  I managed to thread the needle about three or four times with the automatic threader, wound a bobbin (which I want to call a spool) three times and went through a full reel of thread.  I decided to go through the stitches that it performs and as some of them were a kind of satin stitch they used a lot of thread up.  In that process I had to change the foot - but the book called it a "presser", three times.  There are only two stitches I didn't do and that was because they needed yet another "presser" and I had had enough.  Might do them later along with the buttonholes and the eyelet.  Here are the ones I did (in the silk paper book I made with Annie):

I have to have my room reasonably tidy for Friday with stuff well away that will react to sawdust!  On Friday our local builder is coming to make me some shelving to stand in front of the door leading to our en suite bathroom (why would I want another bedroom having access to MY bathroom?  Maybe the previous owners had that room (my craft room) as a dressing room.).  It is going to be free standing and I doubt it will get painted to match in with the rest of the room for a while as I will be eager, too eager, to do anything but rearrange my room a bit.

Gosh, this was going to be so short, and yes, I like the new format, it lets me type on and on and I can still see the top line.  Ooh, try the bits at the side - there's all sorts of things.  What is this going to look like?

Right, off you go, visit the other WOYWW'ers who are spurred on by the Queen of desks, Ms Julia, and join the biggest blog hop I have ever been on.  Toodle Pip!