What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday: Julia's Birthday

 

It's Wednesday in many parts of the world and this week, today in fact, Bleubeard, Squiggles, and I are wishing Julia (who can be found at Stamping Ground) a very happy birthday.  Sorry, Julia, I didn't bake a cake.   

On my table today are two sheets of red scrapbook paper to use in an art journal, another item I will discuss later, and two unopened packages.

 

As much as I love to show postage stamps

these are both metered.  Note the first one was mailed on June 1 and the second was mailed on June 15.  Both arrived the same day.

On the left is a gift from Lyn (Spyder).  On the right, as I'm sure everyone knows, is this gorgeous gift from Debbie (Tatteredrocks) honoring Shaz Silverwolf.  This is even more beautiful in person and I was thrilled when I received it.  Debbie, I cannot thank you enough for your kindness, caring, and absolutely incredible art.

Lyn's gift has been opened.  I think this is what people call a belly band, but I think of it as an adorable cat closure.  The cats continue inside the folder, too.  Lyn sent two incredible ATCs that represent WOYWW's 624th post.  These and the lovely postcard are so sweet.  As I told Lyn when I thanked her for the gift, I only sent two ATCs this year, and now I feel bad.  Fortunately, I have Lyn's address, so she may see something in the mail one of these months, too.  Thank you so much Lyn for your unbelievable gift and thanks again to Debbie for your great art and incredible generosity.

I know that many of you have come to see the rocking horse of the week.

Although it is not the smallest I own (by any means), it is small.  It is a beautiful crystal rocking horse, with strung crystal rockers.  In case you are wondering about the ruler on the table, it is not to show the size of the rocking horse.  Instead, last week, my friend Neet commented about not knowing what a drafter's ruler or architect's scale was.  When not in use as a ruler, it normally sits in its case, seen at the back of the photo.

I decided if Neet didn't know what it was, others wouldn't either, but wouldn't take time to ask. There are six different scales on this prism shaped tool.  Architect's scales are used to make and read drawings made to a specific scale.  They are specifically used when drawing a blueprint.  Architect scales have numbers that run incrementally both from left to right and from right to left. A whole number or fraction to the left or right of the number line indicates the scale those numbers represent.  Metric scales are used in most other countries in the world.  Today, computer programs draw the work to scale.

 

Now it's time to head to Julia's and wish her a very happy birthday.