WOYWW - Maybe I'll Clear up in the Morning! Oh, it is Morning!

Good Morning and welcome to Magpieheaven. It's officially Wednesday so I can show my desk just as it looks as I'm about to head off to bed! Why, you might ask are you photographing your very messy desk when your eyes need propping open with matchsticks? Well try linking to Julia's brilliant Stamping Ground, where you'll find out all about WOYWW - the rendezvous for crafters all over the world and the opportunity to have a jolly good snoop and see what we've been creating - or procrastinating about creating! Once again I'm ashamed because this table really is a mess. After I finished tutoring this afternoon I so wanted to carry on with a tag I'm making for my friend's daughter, Hannah's birthday that the time just evaporated! Suddenly - after a brief pause to cook, eat and clear away dinner and then get crafting again - it was 1.30 am! Does anyone else find that?

So what's going to be at the centre of my tag for Hannah? What seems like a lifetime ago this young lady - now twenty four years old - used to come to play with my two, and dressing up was always the favourite game! My son would be in his wizard's hat and she would be in her witch's hat, but probably worn with a glittery creation in purple net sprinkled with sequins. Hannah's card, then, will feature a pretty witch all ready to take flight on her broomstick just one more time, for old time's sake. I've stamped her onto shrink plastic painted with Fresco Lake Wanaka, but she'll have to wait until tomorrow for my magic trick - to shrink her into a very tiny witch indeed! It's a pity my magic doesn't extend to making the ink stains vanish from my die-cut frame, which I somehow seem to have smeared with black Archival! How do I manage to get ink and paint absolutely everywhere?
You can just see the corner of my trusty Clarice Cliff mug in the bottom right of the picture! I still have my notice board inspired by this waiting for the kitchen to be finished! Any information about my cupboards, you ask? 'They're coming on slowly!' according to Kevin! Hmmn, yes, slowly certainly does describe it!  Ah well, after the excitement of my big green fridge I've had to calm down and learn to live with a half-finished kitchen. And I promise that you will all be invited to the biggest virtual party ever when that darned kitchen gets done! So that's something to look forward to! We don't yet have a completion date for my mum's move, but things do seem to be progressing in the right direction and we should hear any day; my daughter is absolutely loving art school and she and her group gained an excellent mark for their presentation today so she came home walking on air! Craft and crafting friends fill my life with beauty and fun! If we could just find a way to make my son feel a little bit less troubled and anxious life would be perfect. Thank you so much for dropping by and looking at my late night, early morning mess! It will all be cleared away in time for breakfast, I promise!