Deskers Seventh Heaven--WOYWW 364

Happy Seventh Anniversary to our dearest Julia who is the queen of the desker kingdom! One of the things I love about What's-On-Your-Workdesk-Wednesday is that I do love my crafty corner desk and even when a few weeks go by when I can't seem to manage a creative blog post, I will post my desk...whatever's going on there! Or what's not going on there. I do something at my craft desk every day though, even if I just slap on some blush and lip gloss and check Pinterest! I have to keep the inspiration going. So happy anniversary to all the desker lovelies! And a special thank you to Jan for carrying on while Julia takes care of herself. Big hugs to both of you English roses.

So...here I am. Drinking coffee, and doing some soothing cross-stitching on the dollhouse pattern. I'll show you how far I am today after a little more extensive tour of the desk in honor of #364.

Someone commented about my Starbucks mug last week--it's the ceramic mug that came out at Valentines...I do love that thing, it keeps my coffee warm for a long time, which is good when you tend to stitch while you sip in the mornings! You might check their website though--a lot of times they still sell limited edition mugs. Also there are my new markers, waiting for me to do some journaling...I've got to get on that! I still love my initial mug I got at Michaels to keep stray pens together off the desk. And in the middle is a clear acrylic organizer, meant for the bathroom, but it was on sale at Target and it's perfect for holding scissors, tools and has big tray compartment in the front for craft supplies in use and right now everything I stuffed in there is hiding the back of it.

Here's what's watching over me--a huge basket filled with yarn and topped with an embroidered tablecloth, keeping the dust off the yarn, and two lambies I got long ago at Bath & Body Works. By the way, it's raining cats and dogs here in the Ozarks!! Anyhoo, I have lots of basket storage up there too. I think it's perfect to have the wooly lambs nesting on the wool!

I have more box storage on the side of my mailbox shelves, there's a tray with a big acrylic Caboodles organizer on it with cosmetics, and I had Pinterest up on my tablet there. My big ole vintage desk has a pullout on each side. Stacked on this side are some list books, my Midori, and the little cloth bag that comes in the Sephora Play Box, a monthly subscription (for ten bucks) and you get several deluxe samples of luxury products each month. I think the little bag is cute too and I'm going to embroidery on the other side of it which is blank! My daughter and I love the products this month which focused on natural ingredients.

Here's how the cross-stitch dollhouse is going. At this point, I've dragged this thing around with me everywhere as I work on it, and it is wrinkled, and I even had to wash out what I guess was a little coffee drop stain at the top. Anyhoo, it looks like a mess--but will be perfect when I iron it at some point. The aida cloth has gotten so pliable now though, I do need the hoop on each room I'm working on. The May room is done, and I'm already doing the June room, which is the bathroom! It's cute though, the shower curtain has hearts. I promised myself I would do one room a month, the way she did all 12 rooms last year on elBlogdeDMC, so I'm delighted that I am ahead!

 I realize I didn't take a good photo of my whole desk with the mailbox shelves which were painted white a couple of months ago, so here's that view again. I'm so glad I took the time to take everything down and have hubby paint them white, because it really brightened everything up, and is so much more fun to decorate.
Off to visit some lovely desks now.

Eat, Write, Dream, Stitch