Rocking Your World Friday Week 10

How I love it when Friday rolls around. First off, because it's Friday, and secondly because I can join up with Virginia and see what lovely things have been going on in other peoples week.

Thankfully I am now feeling back to 100% so that is a big happy dance.

Our new chinchilla, Frankie, seems to have settled into his new home and appears to be very happy. Of course, he is spoiled rotten just like the rest of the zoo and loves it.

Lovely daughter and grand-daughter going away for the weekend which gives Mr R and I some much needed and deserved alone time. Maybe a date night dinner could be in the cards.

Some happy mail from my SU upline. A lovely card and a stamp set for promoting to the next level.

And to finish off, a picture of my grand-daughter that brought a smile to my face, so I'll link up with Annie for her Friday Smiles as well.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!

Hugs,
Michelle 

True Confessions

I always hear from the lovely deskers how tidy my desk looks, but our wonderful Ms. Julia left me a comment yesterday that just tickled me.

"I'm sorry that you still aren't right - that's not fair after so long, huh! Cor, roll on real warm dry weather for everyone. Everyone will tell you how neat and tidy you are...I'm going one step further. I have one set of small shelves that are a very dark brown melamine. I use them almost daily, but I don't show close ups on WOYWW. Because you could write your name in the dust! So I'm MEGA impressed by your housework as well as your neat!!"

As I have mentioned before, once my beautiful grand-daughter (I know, slightly biased) was born I had to give up my craft room as we only have a 3 bed house. There were no complaints about this at all as it is so worth it, but I then had to find a place for all my crap stuff. Fortunately my master bedroom is a good size and I was able to get everything in the room and put a large shelf in the closet for the overflow.

Really, all that long drawn out explanation means is that if my desk is not tidy I find I can't relax in my bedroom. I have trained myself to clean up, or at least do a quick tidy, after each crafting session. As for the lack of dust on the shelves, I think it is because I'm always pulling things off and putting them back on. Believe me, I'm not one to dust very often! 

The only drawback to this set up is that looking at all my stuff gives me ideas that I "need" to try right away, usually two minutes before I'm ready to crawl into bed for the night. I have partially solved this by keeping a notebook handy to scribble my thoughts down and then let it go for the night.

Here are a few pics of my current setup. And no, I will not show you my closet!!! LOL

Starting just to the left of my desk is my ink caddy (the cube is actually on my dresser)

Between the desk and dresser are my wood mount stamps

The shelf on my work surface hold my clear mount stamps, punches, markers and my fantastic lights

The corner desk houses my ATG gun, clear blocks, tool caddy, laptop and printer

Under to corner desk are some of my 12 x 12 papers

Drawer cart holds extra adhesive and misc. stuff
The shelf has boxes with bling, dies and embossing folders, my Big Shot, trimmers, scoring board and Paper Pumpkin goodies

This big guy is on the opposite side of the room and holds all kinds of other goodies and my 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock
The closet door is on the far right side of this wall

I just want to let you all know, that I appreciate every visit and comment left for me. I do get round to almost all of you every week, but I don't have a lot of time to leave comments usually. I do love seeing what everyone is up to and snooping at your crafty areas, it makes me feel part of a real community!

Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs,
Michelle