I have seen these dotted about all over the place and this week I decided to show for the first time what’s on my workdesk. As usual it’s untidy all around the area I work on. I do try to keep that glass cutting mat clear if I can, although it often doesn’t work that way.
I’ve got a couple of images in the process of being coloured and one somewhat damaged inkpad. It’s one of those sticky embossing types. But for some strange reason it’s just disintegrating. Can you see in it’s top right hand corner the foam pad is just falling to pieces. If anyone has any ideas as to what might cause that I would be fascinated to hear them as these things are not exactly cheap.
There is also a mouldy cup of coffee! Must wash that up, was wondering where that cup was, it must have appeared from inside a pile of rubbish about ten minutes before I took the picture. Note the el cheapo storage solutions. Various empty ice cream containers and one I pinched off my Sister yesterday. Made her empty it too. It had those liquitab things for the laundry in it, so now my ink dusters smell delicious.
The set of drawers contains my promarkers. Not a bad storage solution although a couple of the colours could have done with deeper drawers as they get jammed when I pull them out, but otherwise keeps them in colour families and easier to locate.
If you want to join in the fun hop on over to The Stamping Ground, where you will find many more messy craft areas.
Oh well, I guess it’s time I messed it up again.
Welcome to the WOYWW madness. It's really lovely to see our group growing every week. Love your storage systems :-)
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Oooh another new desk for us 'nosey parkers' to snoop at.
ReplyDeleteGreat desk and hope to see more of it next week!!
take care........xx
Stopping in with my morning cuppa-
ReplyDeleteyour desk looks very tidy to me, Interesting about the glue pad, I have had ink pads do that too. Lovely blog and creations
Your desk looks nice and organised to me all your storage drawers have labels on them.
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So many boxes of yummy stash - and not so yummy mouldy coffee!!!!
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ReplyDeletewelocme to the madhouse, lovely tidy desk,enjoy your snoop, have great day, happy WOYWW, sue,x
El Cheapo looks great to me and it all looks so neat and organised I was thrilled when you mentioned the mouldy coffee... yeh! I'm fast learning it's not just me, then!
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JoZarty x
Hello there, Lin and welcome to WOYWW!! Not messy at all - if you think it is, you'll never get to see mine, lol. if that pad's a RAnger one, then send it back!!! Email Tim and ask his advice or email Ranger direct. Best of luck and Happy WOYWW! Cath x
ReplyDeleteMy perfect medium pad disintegrated like that too so I binned it and went with versamark instead, does the same job but doesn't drop apart when you try use it!!... thanks for the snoop
ReplyDeleteooh new desk! Welcome to WOYWW; I suspect that by this time of day you've understood that your desk really doesn't qualify as untidy!! I'm a glass cutting mat owner too - love it. The ink pad....are you rubbing it over stamps? That's the only thing I can think of...if so, just tap firmly, and sorry if that teaches you about egg sucking, I don't mean too. MY DH says the foamy surface would break down in direct light too - but the pad would be dry if that was the case, huh....am as usual, at a loss..but this is a good place to ask, for sure!
ReplyDeletewelcome to the wednesday,madness,your desk looks lovely and tidy to me,hope too see you again next week love cheryl x
ReplyDeleteNope. NOT untidy! I think that your embossing pad is like that because you have been wandering downstairs in your sleep and chewing it! (What do you mean, that's no help?? I'm trying, lol!)
ReplyDeleteGreat desk, love the little drawers.
ReplyDeleteThat is what I call a very tidy desk. I use the same storage system as you (ice-cream tubs) and find Chinese containers great for small stamps.
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Welcome to WOYWW. You are going to love it here. It's quite addictive. I've never seen or even heard of a glass mat before. I'm intrigued.
ReplyDeleteAs for you stamp pad, I'm not a stamper, so that may be why I can explain my problem. I had a gold pigment ink pad get crumbly on me, so I took it back to where I bought it. I was told it was OLD, that's why it crumbled, and they couldn't replace it. I explained I bought it from them and even had the receipt. The owner stuck with the story and I got stuck with a bad ink pad. I hope you have better luck than I. Happy first WOYWW and see you next week.
Ice cream containers as storage. Now that's an idea. Especially the part when we get to empty them... (I will NOT tell my daughter... she doesn't need more excuses for eating ice cream - although this is a really good one, "I'm helping Mommy organize her stuff")
ReplyDeleteUgh UgH Mouldy coffee lol, we lost one of our daughters bottles a while back we searched for it and it was in the bleach cupboard all curdled ugh! your desk is loverly and tidy. Joey.x
ReplyDeletelove all of your little drawers!
ReplyDeleteDo you have two sides of the table to work on? That would be great! Patsy from
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Very tidy desk there! made me laugh about the coffee cup though. No idea about the glue pad as I dont have one - love all the little drawers with your promarkers in - I too use icecream tubs to keep flower soft and glitter in.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely go and mess it up, I hardly think it qualifies for messy, not compared to some whom I won't mention!! Welcome to the madness too BTW.
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Brenda
hello and welcome to WOYWW, a warning it can become obsessive, but such fun, I have never managed to get around everyone each week, I admire the people that do manage it, love the pro-m storage mine are in a converted dvd tower, and snap on the manky perfect medium pad, I threw it away and picked one up for 50p at a sale, bargain :)
ReplyDeleteWelcome to WOYWW - never mind obsessive, addictive is perhaps a better word! Love some of your images you're using - where do you get them from?
ReplyDeleteWelcome to woyww! sorry I'm late, great crafty desk, and like me ...always a cold and mouldy tea/coffee handy,for the odd fly/wasp to dive in!
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(Lyn)
Lots of lovely storage on your desk great. :)
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ReplyDelete. Your desk is verrrrrry tidy!,the white bucket I use to put the scraps and backing of my double sided tape in when I am at my desk, saves me bending to the bin every five mins lol
Joey.xxx
Nice to see you here Looby:p Your desk looks fab. Odd the damage to that ink pad, never seen anything like that before... or at least not on an inkpad... it looks like the way upholstery foam disintegrates in old furniture.... seen plenty of that when I used to work in an Upholstery company.
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