WOYWW -296

It's wednesday again, and that means it is time for fun blog hopping to crafty desks (and whatever other workspaces people happen to have) around the world. All the posts can be found here at Julia's blog. Here's my mess today:

This pic is from tuesday afternoon, and as you can maybe see I'm working on the craft barn February calendar page, and I have bits from previous crafty stuff spread around too. The children have had fever, and there is a game on the desk. To the right you can see a lovely little box decorated by my daughter. I almost finished the calendar page in the evening and cleaned my table so I can do some "real work" this morning.

On the floor in my "messy work" spot is the beginning of my TH February tag. I don't know why (perhaps because I have always found it difficult) I've never liked doing collage...but I'm telling myself it will look better after the distressing part... I realised during the weekend that I can use crafting to force myself to do chores (you can check out this post) so I continued the same way on monday morning: I went out with the dog and shovelled some snow, after which I treated myself to some stamping and a cup of tea. Then I scrubbed the bathroom, after which I gave myself permission to colour the stamped images. After that I hurried to clean the upstairs bathroom knowing that as soon as it was done I could fussy cut my images. Wondering what to do next, I luckily remembered that our bed linen needed to be changed...after which I put together my card, and was just in time at work (I had a lesson starting at 12.30). I really felt satisfied with myself, and today I have a chemistry exam to go through that my students did yesterday... I believe this will be a crafty day, and I will get both the work and that tag done! Probably no time for hopping at desks though, until Saturday.

As for the snow: here is our garden yesterday...the view is from our living room window (what the dog is looking at in the upper photo ) No dreaming of snowdrops for a long time, but this is so beautiful I don't wonder why the Finnish flag is white and light blue!