It's What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday again. For details, please see Ms. Julia's
page.
My back appears to be getting better and I have started scaling back the codeine this week, although I took a double dose at lunchtime by accident (should have been a single dose) and spent the subsequent three hours effectively stoned. I got a lot of work done, administered first aid and dealt with two complaints (not about me), so I don't think anyone notice. Need to be more careful.
My desk this week:
To the left, don't know if I've mentioned this one before, but it's a cross stitch pattern a dear friend gave me for Christmas just gone. It's called 'Cat Pile' and is a heavily Photoshopped picture of a number of different kinds of cat. I don't think my friend read the specs, or more likely didn't know what she should look for as this pattern is 15 x A4 pages and after I converted the colours from Anchor to DMC, discovered it has 107 colours in it. Yes, that's 107. I feel it would be rude of me not to give it a go a she is a good friend and she did spend money on it. Just don't expect it to be done anytime soon. I envisage it as the background piece I pick up between projects.
Dan bout me two big Caramel bars, half of one has already been snaffled.
I started a felt bird tutorial on Sunday, which explains the green felt clippings and scissors. The bird is roughly in the centre of the shot, near a small pile of stuffing. It is terribly small and very fiddly, so I may make up a load for Chrimble prezzies
Nathan's Diatom cross stitch is still going, at the back of the shot. I mentioned last week I was taking it on holiday with me to Mudeford to fill in some of the blackwork. That went well for the first two days of the holiday, when I was in control of my embroidery skeins. At the end of day two, I found my niece posting the black down a gap in the sun patio of the lodge we were staying at. Thus ensued a quiet search for a Haberdashery to buy another one. Ha ha ha - Haberdashery? What's one of those then? I obviously take the fact that I work in one for granted, because it seems that no one else has one. We went to the one I'd heard of in Christchurch, but it had closed down. I spotted a Bradbeers in New Milton as we drove through the town and made a mental note to stop on the way back and investigate it. Plans were changed and I never got there, so I packed it away and got my book out instead. Want a new and exciting book to read? Get 'The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson out of your local library - it's the bomb! (snigger)
Work have just bought in a load of Decopatch stuff in and it's payday tomorrow and I wonder whether I have the will power to resist. I will buy the tissue box at some point because I like giving useful gifts.
That's enough words. See you next week:))) xxx
