Let's start with a desk. (if only!)
the page on the left was mostly done already, I just added some offcuts of masterboards I'd left over from Christmas cards and the right is a mishmash of layers covering a failed go at the string pulled through ink thing (been there for months, decided it was time to cover it up.
No before or during pics...
a bottle of Kew gin from my boss - and the watch, which I bought with some of the money (present come bonus) she gave me; a tin of G&T cookies from my cousin,
and the rest is from my brother and sister-in-law.
everything else I couldn't get out of the picture is the normal "stuff" that lives around me and which didn't get tidied away...(it was a very vague thought....)
had a very lazy time of it, one trip to Kew (click for the pics) after I had Christmas Day (click for the pics) with my brother, coming home earlier on Boxing Day than perhaps I'd thought - their heating packed up so it was cold! I toyed with the idea of going to Kew yesterday (new year's day) but there weren't many trains running and I woke with a headache so have yet to get my first trip of the year in - that will be Saturday!
it will be a shock to the system waking up at work time today (well tomorrow; as usual I am getting this ready the night before) - or at least, having to get up when I wake up at work time!
I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year if you celebrate either or both, and I am sure we raise a toast to Julia for keeping this fabulous desk hop going week in week out for so long.
It's been part of my life for so long now and I count myself lucky to have met and befriended many of you for real, and virtually for the rest of you! I'll find your desk as soon as I can!
29 comments:
Happy and creative new year Helen, still another celebration to go here but the Spanish are working in between. Hence the early morning, woken by the fishing boats. Glad you had a good Christmas with lots of pressies sorry it was cold at your brothers. Have a good 500 WOYWW. Ani
Happy new year Helen and happy 500th link up.
Enjoy all your new goodies
Lynn #8 x
Happy New Year Helen, thank you for letting me know about the link had problems all morning trying to save and post. 500 is a great number and I thank you along with Angela for encouraging me to join the WOYWW Clan, forever grateful.
Shame about the heating at your Brother's I hope it's fixed now as the temperature has really dropped Brrrr!!
Lovely lot of gifts, I had lots of crafty goodies this year most still under the Tree but unwrapped.. Will hopefully get time to play when the Tree goes away Sunday.
Happy WOYWW Hugs Tracey #9
Happy New Year Helen, I hope the headache had gone before you had to head into work. Hope you manage to make the crop this year s it would be great to meet you in person. Happy WOYWW. Sarah #12
Happy New Year!! I'm glad you had a good Christmas, hope your brother's boiler has been fixed by now. They always fail at the coldest time of the year! Hope work isn't too arduous, you do seem to have a lovely boss, nice gifts from her. Hope to see you at Crop Ten in June!
Hugs LLJ 7 xxx
Morning Helen. A happy and blessed new year. Yum - green and blacks chocs!! That book looks good - what's the series called?? Sorry you had to break your Christmas celebrations a few hours early - trust your brother's heating is now working! It's a real thick frost here this morning. I really like that green coloured page - even though you feel it started as a failure... It's good.
Take care. God bless.
Margaret #3
Hi Helen,I keep meaning to try that string pulling, pretty sure my attempts will either go in the bin or get covered up. How do they make it look so easy? lol. Love the greeny/blues you covered it with. Happy New Year, Hugs, Shaz #5 X
Happy New Year my friend.....isn't it lovely to be able call you a friend thanks to Julia's efforts over the years?....and we will hopefully neet for real soon.
Hugs,
Annie x #11
Hi Helen,
Well, this will be last comment tonight ist getting late, it’s hard when you’re so many hours behind us in your winter our summer.
I love those socks, very cute Dalmatian on them, and definitely oxides always grand too... a really nice watch as well.
I’ve some things shared love my new stamp set from sweet n Sassy on my desk, which I managed to buy in Oz, and achievement these days.
Hope work isn’t too much of a drag and look forward to your crafting!
Happy #500! Hugs Shaz in Oz.x #10
Lovely gifts, Helen, you did do well...is that a Ken Follett series you’re reading? What a pretty watch too...I like a watch, I have rather a collection. I’m surprised your brother and his family didn’t trot home with you, I can’t bear being without heating! I didn’t do a lot of crafting but as you saw, I did tidy my desk! I wonder if you’ll acquire a desk and space for it this year...operation Rescue Helena’s knees!!!
HI Helen, I know what you mean. I am headed out the door to work in a few and just thought I had time to stop by a couple of links. love the gifts :) Happy New Years! ~Stacy #27
Happy New Year Helen! You were much more successful in getting creative over the holidays than I was! I got a few craft related gifts this year, and $150 in gift certificates for Michael's and our local stamping store! I will enjoy spending that! Have a wonderful new year! Lindart #32
Wishing you creative joys in 2019! hugs, Kim #30
Hi Helen, Happy New Year and happy 500th WOYWW. Santa was very nice bringing you such goodies. Shame about leaving your brother's house early, but definitely need the heating on and working, it's so cold! Have a great trip to Kew on Saturday, I'll look forward to the photos next week. Have a lovely week Heather x #33
Hi Helen
Happy New Year and Happy th WOYWW - such an achievement on Julia's part.
Love the photos of Kew and also your family on Christmas Day. The starter looked delicious.
Hope it wasn't too awful getting up and out for work!
Thank you for the visit on Boxing Day - I had intended visiting everyone but once family arrived that was it. I've not done a lot since - until today. Anne x #18
what lovely presents and I like your journal pages. Wishing you a Happy and Creative New Year. Thanks for Sharing. God Bless, Caro x (#20)
Hi Helen, my crafty friend. I am so looking forward to another great year of seeing what you get up to. Happy New Year and big hugs, Angela x16x
Happy New Year! What a great batch of gifts! Love the Dalmatian socks! Thanks for popping by and have a great week!
Carol N #24
Happy 500 and Happy New Year :)
You have great Secret Santa's! This year I received some ginger liqueur and a concrete cat for the garden.. I count that as a good haul.. and I received some MDF from a crafty secret Santa too.. not sure what I will make with it yet!
Sumbunneh hugs,
Erika #35
Hi Helen, Lovely presents.
Love the colours in your journal pages.
Glad you made it to Kew, but a shame you didn't make it yesterday. Hope you make it Saturday.
A shame you had to cut your holiday short with your brother.
Hope work went ok.
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Happy 500th WOYWW
Sue #15
Happy New Year and #500! I love your journal colors and all the goodies you received! I wasn't on top of the WL classes much this year either; but I enjoyed what I did, and I got in with the 45% discount, so off I go for another year!
Have a great week, and thank you for visiting!
-K #34
Hi Helen, Happy New Year!! You have some fun Christmas goodies there, hope you get tikme to play with your Distress Oxides soon :o) Annie C #37
Happy New Year to you! Glad you were able to do some creating over the holidays. Dorlene #31
Love your journal pages Helen, great background work on them both.
My word, you certainly got some lovely presents and I had to smile when you said you had a headache - I was thinking of the gin you had bought and the biscuits too. overindulgence?
Only kidding, but who cares, it's Christmas.
Have a wonderful year ahead of you and take many many photos from your adored kew.
Hugs, Neet 4 xxx
Happy New Year xxx
Wowzer - the texture on those pages looks so amazing! Even ten minutes of crafting is so worth it! Great looking gloat table of goodies. Hope the return to work is not too traumatic...
Oh, and if it helps with the stamp, it's Impression Obsession Birds on Trees CC102. Happy Shopping!
Alison x
HI Helen!
thanks for the visit. Always a pleasure to see you take time from work to stop in. I won't look at your floor if you don't look at the rest of my studio. Deal? hehe Creative Blessings - Kelly # 38
Good to know you had a happy time over Christmas - hope that heating gets fixed soon - doesn't it always happen when you least want it too! I am so late getting round desks and missed last week all together! Happy New Year - hope we see you at Crop Ten in June! xx Jo
Lovely pages, Helen, and I'm glad you had a good time with family over Christmas. Thank you for your visit, and I didn't think your floor was boring at all! I think a lot of people had pretty bare desks for the big 500th celebration because of when it happened and people were so busy with other things. Sorry to be so long replying but we seem to have been very busy lately and I've got pretty tired too, and everything's got a bit neglected!
Happy New Year and happy belated 500th WOYWW,
Shoshi #27
Hi Helen! Happy 500 WOYWW and Happy 2019! Your art is amazing and I love to look at all the lovely stuff you buy and that prompts me to buy it too! Hope to see you at a show or maybe at the crop!
Love and hugs,
Cardarian
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