What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday 214

Morning all, if I hurry up I just 'might' make it in the first hundred for WOYWW for a change, you can find all the other nosies and their wonderful work desks here http://stamping-ground.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-214.html its great fun to see what everyone else is up too.

I have had better weeks, a fair few nasties have reared this week making life a bit of a trial, so the arty stuff did take a back seat, I am now late for my Heartsong Arts Academy Challenge, and this week is a competition too, above is the beginnings of my canvas to enter - but dont look at the link, as I want to win the prize myself so dont want anyone else to enter, here is the information and details of the great prize to be won http://emerging-lotus-flowers.org/2013/07/07/07-07-13-heartsong-arts-academy-blog-hop-challenge-2/

Its also very hot for us here in the UK, I appreciate that other countries get weather much hotter, but many of us live in the UK as we prefer it cooler I am one of them.  Also for the amount of this awful heat we get it does not warrant air con, so my house is like a furnace now at all times - sleep is something that was in the dim and distant past as its way to hot for that.  Hopefully there is only another week at most of this, before my crayons start to melt and that would never do, might have to remove the food from the fridge and add the crayons.  (crayons = oil pastels)

Also on my work desk has been a custom card order that I got a bit behind on, its now all finished BUT now my car is broke so I cant get it to the post office now, typical.  I am a bit cross too as the OH (who is more than capable of fixing my car) tells me to drive it anyway, yeah right! you have never heard noises and squeaks like it, all very scary, plus if I got the dogs to the beach and it broke down its a long way to walk the old Lurcher back in the heat, so no car today or until OH can find the time to fix it.

Hope this wasnt too much waffle, tried to keep it short - off now to add my details to WOYWW and take a look at some of the others.  Sorry I didnt get round as many as I would have liked last week, will try do better this time.

Never Enough Hours ....

Never Enough Hours in the day!! that is my motto.  I think with Alfie's illness I forgot to mention I managed to obtain my first CUSTOM CARD ORDER !!! How exciting is that? .. and for 20 cards, certainly kept me busy this week.  I couldn't understand were all my time was going, then I worked out with Alfie being on lead walks only, my total dog walking hours per day has now doubled to 4 hours a day, he is not so fast either and we do a lot of stopping.  Once you add the usual household stuff to that, and that 'sleep' thing one is meant to do - very little free time in a day left.

My intention was to do so many cards for the order and one for the Etsy shop, best laid plans and all that.. I had all on managing one or two cards per day.  Having said that, I have also started a new art course with Gulfsprint, called '30 pages in 90 days' the idea is I can actually keep up with this one, but I seem to be getting behind already, the thing is I am enjoying the course so much that is all I really want to be doing - you can find details on Christy's ning site here http://gulfspritesartjournal.ning.com/ though registration is now closed for this particular course until the end of May.

Whoops, managed to digress again... anyway, I have finally finished said card order, just need to stick the 'made by SimJaTa' stickers on the back of them all (today's task was sorting those out, from design to print), slot in the card inserts and post off to customer - as you can see by two of the cards shown, she is a fellow dog lover, but requested a selection of cards so they are not actually ALL doggie ones, there is a selection of varying topics and some suitable for males too, so hopefully she will be happy.

If anyone finds out were that time thief is hiding out, please let me know - I could really do with at least another 8 or so extra hours per day to catch up...