WOYWW 307

Well, you will not believe my desk as it is right now.  Mind you it wasn't like that a short while ago as I had got the most fabulous stamp sent to me by my friend in America.  It is a Stampin 'Up set and is called Lotus Blossom - the flower head being a three part stamping procedure.

Sadly, the same day it arrived I got an email telling me that a dear little old lady of whom I was very fond, in America, had passed that morning.  So the first card I made with the stamp was a condolence card for her son and his family.  Little Edie, as I called her, was not a well lady but she did make the effort to spend Christmas visiting the various family members so I got to see quite a bit of her when I was over there.  I had to smile because I had taken her some scented drawer liners as a gift and she refused to use them for that purpose.  She told me it was "too nice" and that she was going to "make cards with it".  Yes, she was a card maker.

At weekend I decided to try the stamp out again using different colours of my Brilliance inks.  I didn't have that many colours suitable for the flower heads so I went on to using my Chalks.

The Peach one on the left is with Peach Pastel (Chalk ink) and the other two are Sky Blue and Orchid (both Brilliance)

The lilac one below is done with Brilliance Lavender and the other is with Chalk Dark Peony.

There was just one snag - the Dark Peony one rather stained my stamp but it did give the best result. It took a lot of cleaning before I could use a Pastel Peach on it again.

So my desk!  Want a shock?  Want a surprise?  Well you can get both when you see it

and to prove it is all the way around the bit that does not have cupboards/drawers on it (permanent)
we have a view to the left.

Think I need to lie down now I have uploaded that.  But just before I do let me tell you something strange that happened to us on Saturday.

I had a bad back, a real bad back brought on by a mammoth spring cleaning on the Friday.  Chas offered to do the kitchen/diner for me so I let him.  Now he had done this the week before too. Imagine his shock when he moved a couple of boxes from the corner of the breakfast bar (which isn't used as one but I don't know what else to call it - it has cupboards suspended over it) and he found a ..(oh my gosh, I could not believe it and it made me feel all funny inside) ... dead blue tit.  How on earth it had got into the house I have not a clue.  Not had the windows open in the dining room, it must have been poorly and come in to die.  We have no dog or cat.  That is the only explanation I can come up with.  Poor wee thing - but what a good job he found it when he did.  Imagine the smell if we had not cleaned up for a few days.

Right, after that I think it is time to visit Julia and see what she and everyone else is up to.  See you later!