The Glittered Poppleberry

 Good morning lovely, crafty friends! It's week 600 of WOYWW! Absolutely fantastic collection of crafters and desks, seriously head over to the Stamping ground HERE to get involved. We are a friendly bunch, honest! Unfortunately I wont be able to take part in the zoom meet up today, because of therapy. I trust you will all have a good giggle. Really thrilled to be part of this crazy group and so pleased to see the 600 milestone get smashed!  So on the topic of desks, here is mine ... You know all those Christmas elements I stamped, coloured and fussy cut. I didn't use a single one on my cards. What a plonker! Decided to pop one inside each card instead as an extra detail. So my cards are finally finished and now to write them all out. Then onto making some little boxes for bath bombs I am gifting to a few friends. So the hounds, they both got bought a coat the other day, as its getting chilly. They look awfully posh now and seem to enjoy having them on too!  Since its Lyr...

  Good afternoon crafty friends!! Time for some more sharing of desks, my favourite part of a Wednesday! To join in with this kind community head over to The Stamping Ground, run by the lovely Julia. So above is my desk currently, just decided to light a candle, since this time of year is perfect for it. I adore candles and have been loving burning them as the nights draw in. Anyone else a candle addict? So also on my desk is a Greggs cappuccino I grabbed this morning as I needed to pop into work at 7:30am. Far to early to be expected to function ! There's a selection of stamped, coloured and fussy cut Christmas images, these will be used in my Christmas cards. Some friends have already made theirs and are posting them today, that most definitely makes me panic! Everything seems to be creeping up so fast and I am not even ready, however I am glad I will be able to spend my birthday and Christmas with my family. I hope you will all be able to do the same too. So quite a few of you m...

 Good morning crafty friends! Firstly I want to apologise for now visiting many on my last post, things went badly that week, so I am sorry. For those who want to visit other desks, be sure to click here ! My desk  has exploded...  See, I told you ! So I've been making a journal from scratch, its for my managers daughter. I made the binding and everything inside too. She loved it , so I am thrilled to bits. I will be spending this afternoon tidying up. The most important thing is that I have made a space for my cuppa to sit. So I hope you are all well and staying safe in lockdown #2 for those in the area. My OH finally managed to collect our wardrobe insides from Ikea, so we will be sorting through all the clothes we own. I am working throughout lockdown as I work in an essential store. I am knackered to say the least, I hope you all are staying safe.  Thank you for spending some of your day with me! Ellie x

 Good Morning Friends Happy WOYWW! So today, my desk is a tad empty. Yesterday there was no room to move as I had finished the advent swap envelopes.  So I had a trip to Bristol so popped into Hobbycraft to grab a few things, one being this pack on pretty coloured cardstock. I have also been playing with some more acrylic pouring, this was a dirty pour using the left over paint I had from making a gift. I use the spotty paper cups to pour the paint. I just wanted to apologise that I do take a few days to catch up, on reading your lovely blogs. I hope you don't mind as I like to relax with a cuppa and have a read of a few each day. Speaking of a cuppa I am enjoying a coffee right now, ready to start the day. If you want to join in with this desk madness, head over too The Stamping Ground! Thank you for spending some of your day with me. Ellie x

  Good Morning! Well I don't know how its Wednesday already, but here we are! Nip over to The Stamping Ground if you enjoy snooping at other desks, just like me. So this week my desk looks like a disaster, not sure where to start with it to be honest. So front and centre is my A5 Filofax planner. To the left is a stack of stickers and stationery goodies. On Sunday was an online event a friend and I organised for the planner community. It went really well and I am thrilled to bits everyone who took part enjoyed it. Head over to The South West Planner Club on social media if you are interested in next years event at all. Today is filled with appointments as usual, after I plan to get some cards made for family birthdays. I am also taking part in an Advent calendar swap where I make 25 envelopes of crafty goodies, everyone taking part does this and at the end we all receive a full advent , each day an envelope from those involved. I do hope that makes sense.  you may have notice...

 Good Morning! I hope you are all well and staying safe. It's has been quite some time since I have been able to take part in this weekly tradition. I really have missed it. To take part, or join in aswell, head over to the Stamping ground here . On my desk today, there is a bit of a mixture going on. I'm mid way through a few things and don't have enough time in the day.  There is a canvas that I have recently tried acrylic pouring on. It's great fun! I'm also painting a picture frame for a project I've just started.  I have a collection of cut images in a heap aswell. These are from my Cricut machine and I am loving owning one of these finally. Most of these will be going on cards for my Halloween series.  Thank you for spending some of your day with me! Ellie x 

Good morning friends and happy WOYWW! It's so much fun seeing each others desks and taking part, visit the stamping ground to get involved. Thank you to everyone that visited my desk last week and left some lovely comments. Today I have an appointment so will probably visit other desks late afternoon. So here is my desk, very busy this week... My grimoire binding screws arrived, yay! I tried them out and they fit perfectly. In the background some finished atcs. Hole punch at the ready for my pages.  The inside back page of my grimoire so far. My huge mod podge pot. Love it! A selection of 12x12 pages I trimmed down for my book. Adore these, gorgeous florals and William Morris. Love his art <3 Coffee !  Using my gansai Tambi watercolours to make some pages that I can write over if I wish. My favourite watercolours, so much fun to play with. Start of a little embellishment use card board. Finished little embellishment....

Good morning friends! Happy What's on your workdesk Wednesday! If you wish to take part or have a look at some more desks, click here. So today's desk contains my latest project, I am making a grimoire. I've made the cover from thick board and covered it with faux leather. The inside pages I have inked and used different techniques on. This is very similar to a junk journal. I'm just waiting for my binding screws to arrive so I can assemble it. The last job will be filling all the pages with information. Thank you for spending some of your day with me. Crafty hugs ! Ellie

Afternoon crafty friends! Happy WOYWW, I can't believe how this week has flown by. To visit more crafty desks for inspiration swing by and see Julia at the stamping ground . My desk isn't very busy today as I have been doing a bit of sofa crafting. So on my desk, from left to right, a project from a previous blog post in the top left corner. A pack of wet wipes, a wet wipe I used to clean a stamp with. A project I am half way through and my two new Tombo mono erasers. Nothing too exciting hehe . So today I have been painting and watercolouring and stamping. Thank you for spending some of your day with me! Crafty hugs and happy WOYWW! Ellie x

Good morning deskers!! Today my desk is an utter mess, unfortunately I'm not feeling well today so am spending the day on the sofa with a blanket. At least I have you all to keep me company. If you want to get involved with desking and would like to see some more click here to hop over to Julia, the master desker! Here is my desk this morning- a disaster! I would also like to share what I was making yesterday, wands! Have a peek at my blog yesterday for more pics.  Thank you for spending some of your day with me! Crafty hugs and see you tomorrow. Ellie x 

Hello to you all, To start up our festivities the tree has been put up today. It's not decorated but it is up and the branches arranged until I was happy with it. Unfortunately I was unable to take part in WOYWW today as I have barely had a chance for a cuppa all day until now. I must say I'm happy to be sat on the sofa chilling now. I plan to TRY and fit some crafting in tomorrow and will post some pics of my efforts. Thank you for spending some of you day with me. Crafty hugs and see you tomorrow! Ellie x

Evening friends! My Christmas advent calendar is now finally finished, yes it took ages haha! The snowman is stuck into the snow on the ground now, so it is all ready to fill with treats. I managed to get a journal page finished today also and will show a step by step tomorrow. I would like to thank all those that left lovely messages on Wednesdays blog post. It is very kind of you all. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow for the step by step. Thank you for spending some of your day with me. Crafty hugs and see you tomorrow. Ellie x

Hello friends! Thank you to all of those who have visited me since I joined WOYWW. If you would like to join in with this lovely group of crafters, or look at some other desks, visit the hub of activity here. My desk isn't too bad this morning, last night was a different matter all together. I had paint EVERYWHERE! I don't know how but I just managed to cover myself, my clothes and the carpet...Oops! On my desk today are some bits Ive been using to make tags with. The ones in the pic aren't Christmas ones. The little jellyfish are super glittery but the camera wont pick it up. These little Jellyfish toppers will be mounted onto tag bases once I die cut them. I have been loving my tonic dies for making tags lately. They are fab! Have a fantastic day everyone! Thank you for spending some of your day with me. Crafty hugs and see you tomorrow. Ellie x

Good morning desky friends, The weeks are flying by, its going to be Christmas before I know it. If you would like to share your desk with the others, click here to access Julia's page, the centre of all desking. So far my desk is looking very empty, I haven't started crafting yet today, my partner had yesterday off so spent the day with him. Working left to right across the photo, my gromit coaster I got in Bristol, a natural sponge I used on my lanterns, my tonic scissors that are ideal for fussy cutting because they are springe loaded. Some mdf Christmas shapes, my ugly wilko glue I covered with sparkle paper, tester paints in green that I decorated my advent with, another sponge and my water pot. An empty jar, a box I decorated at a crafternoon tea party, an art journal, on my desk is a little experiment I tried, will explain below. Lasty is my big shot on the right hand side. I have a tag swap I am taking part in, I think I shall get started on that today a...

Happy Wednesday ! My second time posting for WOYWW and I am really enjoying myself, if you want to take part pop over to this pace. Its great fun seeing each others desks and crafty mess haha. This is my desk, a mess I know hehe! Okay, so working left to right on the first picture. Lots of ribbon on the left and a little jar of metal embellishments, a tub of bows, stick pins, mdf butterflies, a round box covered with vintage style tissue paper, small flowers and gems. Lastly on the right is adhesive glitter paper. This is a closer view, with all the goodies on my desk I decorated the box lid. So now I start being crafty if you would like to see the step by step, please read on. So to begin, I ripped some of the glitter adhesive paper into strips and stuck them randomly on the box. Next I cut some pieces of different ribbon and folded them in half. I then stuck the cut ends to the lid. I did this to add dimension to my arrangement. Then I chose th...