WOYWW 57 (Whats on your work table Wednesday?)

What's on YOUR work table today? Do you like this? Go here to create you own (thanks Tess for the link).

Bleubeard never looked so good. Of course, you realize this is not my real work desk or my computer, or even my mouse. My coffee would be whiter, there would be no cat treats, and there would be no messes.

I realize my space is boring, but this week I've been working in my garden, discharging fabric, and getting bids on my porch. Last week's slog of duties included administering a swap and helping a friend clean her house, so I have nothing on my (as usual always) clean work table. Since you didn't come to see a computer generated Bleubeard, or see my work table empty again, I would never let Julia, keeper of the links, down . . .

so that's why I thought I'd let you look peek investigate snoop inside this cabinet this week. And yes, I'm old school when it comes to electronics. I far prefer a VCR to a DVD player or TiVO.

The top shelf has bits of things, including bamboo skewers and chop sticks (for piano hinge books), some distress crackle I hate, and those finger dabbers for spreading ink onto stencils. I also have a pressing cloth and some clean up towels. Although it looks like I have lots of glue, these are glue sticks that have no more glue in them, EXCEPT in the very bottom. You know, that tiny bit left in the very bottom below the gluing surface. I save them, and when I am not on some kind of deadline and need a bit of glue, I dig the last of the glue out using a bamboo skewer.

The bottom shelf on this side has a three drawer storage unit I got out of the trash. It has a seriously broken bottom and taped bottom drawer, but it is perfect for me (and was free, too). Sitting on top of the unit is a printing kit, a piece of plexiglass for monoprinting, and my clear acrylic blocks for unmounted stamps.

The bottom drawer (that's what we call them in the States, but I see some of you gals call them "draws") hold embossing powder (ep), most of which I got at a garage sale a few years back. I also store rub-n-buff there, also from that same rummage sale.

Here's an organization tip: store your ep containers upside down and you'll never have to hunt for the color. I don't try to keep them sorted by light and dark colors because I don't have enough colors to worry about it.

This and the middle drawer house my ink pads. I have no good way to store them, most of which I picked up for $0.25 (about 0. 17 GB pound or 0.20 EUR) each at the same garage sale. I got the Stampin' Up pads (have green, yellow, and pink in the other drawer, and blue, which you can see on the right), which are WORTHLESS, because the pads are recessed, after having a party about 5 years ago.

For the left side, on the top shelf, I have foam stamps stored in the blue container, along with some penscore and other sponges. I have at most 8 foam stamps. I'm simply not a stamper, yet I have so many supplies I could be using if I learned how to stamp. A stapler and some colored staples are stored there, too.

In the three drawer container on the bottom shelf, I keep tags I've made in the top drawer, and eye glasses in the middle and bottom. I also keep my "date" and "received" stamps on that shelf. Below it, hopefully hidden from view unless you are at Bleubeard's eye level, are some board game boxes that contain various game pieces and playing cards.

Also, if you are at Bleubeard's eye level, you can see one of four anti-static mats I use to cover the carpet.

I think I've taken up enough of your time today. I hope I wasn't too long winded. Hope you enjoyed the snoop. I'll be out a good part of the day today (bookstore and thrift store), but hope to visit everyone later tonight or tomorrow. I had a major internet meltdown last week and lost count of where I had visited. I tried to catch up, but I kept losing power and had to reboot. Not fun when trying to keep track of 129 names.

My blog choice today is another WOYWWer. Penni welcomed me from the beginning and has always left nice comments, even though our art choices are as different as night and day. You see, Penni is a rubber stamper, a design team member for Spesch Designs, stamps that I would never have given a second thought to, had it not been for Penni, and a colorer (is that a word?) who uses Copics and Promarkers with an extremely deft and skillful hand. We all know I have none of these. And of course, Penni works with paper, never fabric. So why did I choose her blog today? Well her gracious comments and the name of her blog, which is Lazy Cats Cards of course. And her two adorable cats, Pablo and Thomas, are always getting into something, which makes her posts so fun to read and her lovely photos so fun to appreciate. I always laugh when I read Penni's posts. You will too! So be sure to stop by and see Penni, Thomas, and Pablo today. I know Bleubeard will be checking out their antics.