WOYWW #216--We Found Harry!

Long ago before she ever cared about Harry Potter, I bought the first Harry Potter book when my daughter was barely in first grade at her grade school book fair--it was the first U.S. printing of the Scholastic edition. It looked interesting, but I had no idea what it was. Fast forward several years, and she's Harry Potter's biggest fan...so she was not happy when I couldn't find that first book I bought. Of course, she has all the books and movies, but that particular edition was highly sentimental to her.

So this weekend, I'm cleaning out the craft corner--oh, welcome to What's On Your Workdesk-Wednesday by the way--and there, under my secretary desk (which I never show) was a basket of cute pillows I had cross-stitched, and there was Harry! Covered up by some homemade tote bags, he went unnoticed and hidden, as if using his magic cloak, for years. Too funny. Daughter was not amused! (she is now 19) But she was happy to have sentimental Harry in her arms again, never to let him go, and we really did have a good laugh about it. We had been looking for that book everywhere.

So yes, I did a big, huge, back-breaking cleanout and reorganization to utilize more of the space in my secretary desk. Although here on my worktable it seems messy--trust me it's not, I even have the leaf down. I have my art journal and calendar and a cross-stitch motif design book out because I'm using them...a little photo reframing project...and I'm cross-stitching a tag. See? I've got mad skills and plans!

Replacing a very old frame of an old photo of little me!

The entire bottom shelving of the secretary desk I never show was crammed with old magazines, notebooks, crafty things not in use at all...it was just a storage wearhouse. I snapped a pic after I cleaned out the bottom. Then I sorted, tossed, and rearranged so that now I can use the space so much better with things I really need to access. Ahhh. What a relief. Here is the before and after of the secretary desk. And let me say congratulations to our British deskers on the arrival of a new future king! It was so exciting, waiting for the news!

Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch, Organize