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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. This was last nights desk and will continue tonight after work. I picked and dried the lavender from my front garden so am now bagging it up. i used to make lavender pillows/hangers for family christmas pressies but the past few years most would prefer a bought gift so I will be making some just for our wardrobes etc.

forgot my man bites dog cards this week but to be honest I think there has been enough 'headline' news recently! happy Wednesday all kyla

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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. On my desk today is a mistake!! I think many of us make this mistake....

ooh i will just quickly sort this drawer out..... nope, never quick and many rabbit holes appear!!! Rabbit holes such as. ooh I forgot about that stencil, oh that a good font......yep those holes! i am sure it will get sorted it just wont be that quick job i thought it might be! As to my 'Man bites dog' cards this week....blind wife sues romantic model....ooh I wonder why?..... happy Wednesday kyla

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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. A quick apology as wasn't able to revisit many desks last week as didnt have much of a signal as was down in a folk festival watching amazing music and dancers all through the town and local parks! However, my on my desk is the reason there is a bit of a stink in the air at home!! I am cleaning my plant labels from the allotment and a few yrs ago found out the easiest way is acetone! Now, as we know us crafter can find various jobs for random stash and when i ran out of acetone a few years ago a fellow crafter mention some cheap false gel nail removers are acetone based!! result, cheap and 3rd year of use of these labels (sadly sometimes they snap). i also have some wooden ones I made last year and have some ideas for others I may be able to make over the winter.

as to my 'man bites dog ' cards this week....they are randomly drawn but wow, not a great headline!! On a more positive note, managed to pop into town for a couple hrs this week and did some more gromit spotting!!

love that these bring families visiting Bristol and raises money for the children's hospital, they area sheer delight. stay cool, as uk is in its 4th heatwave this year already! kyla

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happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. There is nothing on my desk at the moment BUT i thought I would share what I did yesterday late afternoon!

our sketching group Bristol urban sketchers are 10 years old this year and Cass Art in bristol is holding an exhibition of our art in their store and last night was the opening. it was lovely, seeing pictures of our art over the past decade, over a glass of wine/elderflowerspritz and catching up with other members, a lovely couple of hrs kyla

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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. It's been a busy week, with Bristol Harbour festival last weekend and we went to Avon valley Railway, which is our local heritage railway and as members we were able to do a steam train brake van ride! All this as well as the allotment and of course the pay the bills day job too! However, check this out i actually did some crafting!!

I wanted to make a card and I was looking for certain images, when I know the recipient has it i will post a picture of it, but it was fun making it as I haven't been through some of these stamps for SO long. totally forgot my Man Bites Dog cards though. Oh and another thing going on in Bristol during the summer is the Gromit Unleashed Trail raising money for the Grand Appeal. I spotted a few so far but this year they are also in other areas so I think we will need to travel round a bit as i do love spotting them.

I do love spotting them. Hope you all have a good week kyla

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happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. finally we got rain yesterday and showers for the rest of this week. i missed last week as i was london for a few days so all this week outside of work its catching up in the allotment. so my desk is my plot!

before london we picked 2.5kg black currants and made blackcurrant vinegar. whilst we were away more ripened so I am picking more. I cut back the stalks and pick the fruit off as that saves a job of cutting them back. I will freeze these later today as I am making bags of frozen mixed fruit to add to my porridge throughout the winter.

I have also picked the last of the broadbeans (to be frozen), the start of the runner beans, salads that are almost finished (i planted them over winter) courgettes, onions,nasturtiums,potatoes and more sweet peas. still lots to do and I will pick rhubarb, the last of the raspberries and harvest the potatoes, but for now i ran out of time! happy days kyla

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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. Apologies as I didn't make all of the desk returns last week, it was rather a hectic week, long hrs at the pay the bills job and then allotment every evening then bed early as this humidity and my Rheumatoid Arthritis is a difficult pairing! Will all sort itself out but must admit i am shattered.

My desk this week is a mess! Started the July 365 journal prep and then the carbon monoxide alarm broke so i bought a replacement and spent an evening fitting it. Sadly couldn't find one with the same screw spacing so that involved re drilling and trying to get the wall plugs etc out! Gave up and 'painted' them with my paint pens so they blend in!!! Happy with that, its working. Forgot my 'Man bites dog' cards again the week but think there are enough headlines at the moment! kyla

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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. My desk this week is the dining room table. That's because.......i did some sewing!

I havent got my sewing machine out for ages. Our back door curtain lining ripped. It's full length glass doors so the sun coming in obviously aged them! The entire lining on both has started to disintegrate. i blame the sun....however, we have had these for best part of 20 years and before that they hung in my aunte and uncles house so they are probably best part of 30 yrs old!!

I think its too much of a faff to remove the entire lining and reline so I decided to do a bodge job and just sew it up and then swapped the curtains over so the mended one is no longer in the doorway that we open but against the other side of the door so it cant be seen easily and its not going to be blown about in the doorway etc so I reckon that will do, hopefully for another year, but we will keep our eyes out in charity shops for replacements eventually!! Hope you are all having an ok week and not too hot where you are. kyla

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Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday. This is my desk, not from today but a few days ago. mainly as my desk is currently empty and I actually made a card the other day so thought I would do a cheeky and post that instead!

the card is for my cousins wedding. His partner is an amazing pyrographer and super talented so I just had to make them a card rather than buy one!

not much crafting at the moment as busy on the allotment but will hopefully get some crafting done soon kyla

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Happy woyww. Well, this week has allotment stuff on the craft desk!

well, I am cleaning down my plant labels! I have some wooden ones but my older plastic ones get reused until they break. I find acetone (used to use it in crafting years ago to clean pen marks etc) works best, and cheap nail varnish remover does the job fine! forgot my 'Man Bites Dog' cards this week but think there has been enough news around! Hope you all have a crafty week kyla