WOYWW 232

I am busy - and I have been wasting time!  Got myself in a pickle about something I am trying to make so took a few days off - today has gone much as yesterday in a whirl of nothing.  Sunday was spent stripping the bed from visitors and tidying up, then flopping and watching tv (I think).  Tomorrow I had better get to some serious thinking and working.

This is my desk - nothing exciting on it, I see there are still a couple of things left over from Friday's post about Alcohol Inks and there are two canvasses which have finally been Gesso'ed.  Oh, and my favourite die - Memory Box from Oyster Stamps.

It's really boring seeing that shot of my desk week in week out so I thought I would show you some of my books for a change

These sit on top of a cupboard and across a filing cabinet.  In case you wonder what is on top of them it is a plastic mask I once painted and am still waiting to decorate.  Typical!  The orange things to the side are some canes in tins for slicing.  Junk at the bottom.

This is a shelf in my cupboard

and below it on the 'ground floor'

 Some very old magazines in the black cases

Of course my book fetish is not solely for craft books, I have a thing for buying novels - especially about life in China.

Behind my little clay oven begins a long line of paperbacks which stretches over three cupboards.  I'd say the Chinese novels only come up to the coffee machine and somehow there are more magazines in the blue carrier.  Oh dear, I must find time to sort them all out.  Now you know why I have been Kindled.

Now what have you to tell us about YOUR desk.  Visit Julia and let us all know and then have a look at what others have to offer.  See you around!

ps Perhaps, before I go you will all join me in wishing Anne R, who has had a nasty fall, a speedy and safe recovery.  God Bless Anne!  Also our friends in the Phillipines who have suffered with this terrible tragedy that has hit the islands.

This just came through in my mail - please read and think about it:

 Day of prayer for the Philippines:

Don't have a day to spare to pray for those affected by Typhoon Haiyan?
As you go about your daily routine, why not make the most of your times of business to pray.

• Breakfast - as you eat your breakfast, pray about the crops that have been damaged, leaving families and individuals without an income and without food. Pray for those who are desperate enough to try and steal from people who have supplies. Pray for their safety and that they get food without resorting to violence.

• Drink - as you drink your morning coffee or tea, pray that people have enough clean water to drink. Pray that there is no more damage from excess water.

• Wash - as you have your wash or shower, pray about hygiene, illness due to poor hygiene and the spread of infection due to dead bodies. Pray that medicines might get to where they are most needed.

• Car - As you get in the car or on the bus, or set out to walk pray for transport, that it might get through to where it is needed. That people stay safe as they transport aid.

• People - the first person you see today, pray for all those people who have lost members of their family and friends.

• The school run - pray for the children who have been left orphaned

• Home - As you go home, pray for those who no longer have homes. Pray that the tents that are being sent from the UK get there safely. Thank God that our country, despite struggling for cash itself, can give so generously to the people of the Philippines.

• Bedtime - pray for clothing and comfort for those affected. Pray for rest.

• Sleep - As you fall asleep thank God for all the blessings He has given you.