WOYWW - 139

Before I show you my desk this week, I just have one thing to say - YIPPEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!  (Apologies to the punctuation police, but I don't care)  We got home very late last night, just checked the emails before shutting the computer down for the night, and found a lovely email from Di to tell me that I had won Sandra's Rudolph Challenge for this month.  I was so chuffed.


Now I had better fulfil the purpose of this post on a Wednesday, which is to show you all my very messy desk for this week.  I apologise for the poor quality of the pictures this week.  They are from my phone, mainly because I was too busy (idle) to come downstairs and then go back again with the proper camera.  You can see the stuff left over from creating my entry for Less is More this week, which took four attempts to get right, so there was a lot of left- overs.  They will need to be gathered up and used up in Snippets cards for Di's playground  - lots of small cards, I think.


I have also been experimenting with making flowers from different sizes of hearts, so there is one version at the base of my beloved Ottlite.  This second photo shows some of the rejects before they get chopped up, and the papers I used for the flower.  I created that from a photo of a beautiful Rosa Mundi from our garden, which I blew up and printed both sides before punching the hearts out.

The other main thing you can see is to do with my latest non-crafting project, which is to convert some of our book collection to PDF's to transfer to our Kindles.  Several of our favourite authors do not seem to be appearing in the Kindle library, so we are using the Windows 7 voice recognition software to read the books into the computer to transfer later.  At the moment, it is slow, and I could type four times faster, but you do need to persevere to teach it to understand you.  I am hoping it will get quicker - we will see.  Hence the headset with the microphone attached.

The rest of the week is getting quite busy, with an optician's appointment amongst it all, and some work on a friend's computer., and a teach in with her on how to use some of the programs she has to make better use of them.  I tend to use a combination of two graphics programs - Roxio Photosuite and My Craft Studio.  With those two, I can do most things I want, to manipulate images.  I like to use as many of my own photos as possible, especially some of the vintage family ones, but they do need computer treatment before use.

OK, folks, that is all for this week, so it is time you went on your way round all the other desks on show over at Julia's desk exchange.  Do have fun, and thank you all for your lovely visits and comment this week.  I will try to return the visits as soon as possible.