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This is my desk this week, my lap tray which I can carry through to sit in the sun to make the most of it.  I have a comfy chair in front of the dining room window so that I can watch the birds and keep an eye of Flash while he wanders in and out.

There are three separate pieces of work here at different stages.  The piece on the right is just at the beginning - an old embroidery transfer which I am going to trace, colour and emboss onto parchment.  The one on the left has had two days of work so far and is for class.  The third you can see further down this post.

Why should I be showing this tray, I hear you ask.  Well the answer is in the title of this post.  Almost ten years ago, a lovely lady by the name of Julia set up a small online group by the name of "What's On My Workdesk Wednesday", which is still going today.  We each take a photo of our workdesk, warts and all  and link the resulting post to Julia's Stamping Ground blog.  Then we all go round and have a look at what everyone else is doing.

 It has been a busy couple of weeks, both crafting and non crafting.  I am gradually getting together a whole load of crafting kit that just is not getting used, both media and stamps, plus a lot of dies.  

Some of it will go to Derbyshire for a decision to be made whether it stays there for my granddaughters or to be passed on to the craft group in their school.

Some of it will go to the crop in June to sell off in aid of the charity.

Some will go to a local craft group for disabled people.

I have already ditched the total rubbish, so what is left is in good condition, partly because I don't use it.  Due to lack of space, I am getting rid of almost everything that does not come from my favourite company (no prizes for guessing the name).

In between this clearing out, I am busy doing my favourite parchment craft.  That includes recovering from disaster a tiny piece, a PTC (parchment trading card), which I had seriously over embossed, resulting in ugly and lumpy parchment.  With the encouragement and help of my tutor, it has gradually settled down and smoothed out.  That just confirms that you can rescue most pieces of apparent disaster, and learn more from them.

As crafters, we are all guilty of over criticising our own work, and too much of it ends up in the bin.  That is where this piece might have gone without help from my tutor, who showed me how to gradually bring it back from the brink to something I am quite happy with.

While you are wondering what pieces you could save from the bin, Julia  has got the coffee on for you at Stamping Ground while you wander round to see what everyone else is doing.  Have fun.