WOYWW 121

Oi Mr Blogger - what's going on?! I just lost half a posting!! I'm well and truly pixielated off (tee, hee, I made that long word for today up - but it almost expresses how I feel right now).

On my desk this week are some absolutely gorgeous handmade goodies from the lovely Bernie. Mr Postie arrived yesterday with a BIG package from the USA containing lots of useful bits of stash, stamps, ribbon, toppers and loads of other stuff - you name it. But, the highlight has to be these:

How totally gorgeous! Top is the lovely birthday card, so delicate and beautifully made. Bottom left is a lollipop - but, look closer! It's actually a tea light and also a fab idea for stocking fillers this Christmas - I'm going to ask Bernie to put how she did it on her blog here. And, the 'piece de resistance' at front right is the most beautiful altered tin (containing choccies too!)The precision is amazing and it must have taken ages to make. And, everything is pink!! So, I'm well and truly 'pickled tink'!!! Thank you so much Bernie :)

And, ahem, you can actually see some of my desk top to the right!

Before anyone spends time wondering - the blue 'gizmo' to the right of the phone is a battery operated stapler. It's a throwback to my working days when I had Carpel Tunnel Syndrome and just holding a hairbrush was sooooo painful. A neat little op. sorted that out thankfully but it made Elf and Safety sit up pronto and one gadget they obtained was the stapler. You just stick the sheets in so they trigger a sensor and 'whizz-bang' it automatically staples - fascinating to watch all the cogs as the sides are clear plastic. I kept it when I left, naughty me!!

Ho, ho - the fork is still there from last weeks 'teensy bow' making exercise - my OH spotted it the other day and I heard him muttering 'Is nothing in this house sacred' as he wandered off shaking his head in despair. He's out right now and doesn't know I've just been measuring a chrome vegetable trolley which currently holds cleaning materials but would be wonderful for craft stuff - and guess what, it would fit beautifully under my curved desk where there seems to be a lot of wasted floor space :))

Also to the right is a little pile of LOTV stamps from Ally Pally - I need to stamp some for Sarn and also some for the friend I went to AP with. And the new from AP holly leaf punch is also to remind me to stamps some leaves for Sarn as well.

Almost out of the photo on the left hand side there a little piece of yellow. That's the cute little Good Luck Bear that Annie sent me a good while back. Trust me, he's been sleeping under my pillow this week when Annie's daughter M was so ill after giving birth to the twins. Thankfully she seems on the mend now and hopefully it won't be long before she's back home and settling down to family life with the new babies.

So that's my offering - the sun is shining here, the temperature is rising and it's too nice a day not to have some washing out on the line. Then, it'll be time for the weekly snoop - to join in and see what everyone else is up to, hop over to Julia's here.

Happy WOYWW!

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