WOYWW 168 Leftovers and Winnings

No, no, no... it's not possible that it's Wednesday again!  Over at the Stamping Ground, our wonderful hostess Julia Dunnit is already amassing the linky list of workdesks from Craftyblogland.  After having a snoop around here, hop over there for a chance to snoop around workdesks from around the world.  

Here's What's On My Workdesk this Wednesday...  As I said in the title, it's a combination of leftovers and a lovely prize package.  There are some half-made projects lying around, off-camera, drying or waiting for the next stage - but they're not fit to be seen yet!

In the centre is the card I made yesterday with my first Stampsmith stamp, and which you can get a closer look at here, if you're interested.  
Lying around it are some of the trial backgrounds I'd had a play with in the planning stages, and discarded.  

Well, not discarded, because they'll stay in my scraps-stash awaiting some sort of life in a future project.  I'm thinking some die-cut flowers could be pretty... not that I like making flowers of course!









Then there's this package, which arrived yesterday and which I'm very excited about playing with!  I was lucky enough to win the Gentlemen challenge over at the Vintage Page Designs blog with my album A Proper Gent.  

The prize was a voucher for Ali Manning's wonderful Etsy shop, also called Vintage Page Designs, so I was able to take the plunge and order the Vintage Gentleman kit I'd been drooling over...

And Ali included some delicious extras: gorgeous pastel seam bindings, some embroidered ribbon, and yummy buttons of all sizes and colours.  Look out for them on a project coming to this space soon...




Thanks so much for stopping by, and if you're playing along at the Stamping Ground I'll do my best to see you very soon over at your Workdesk...

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt
But crafty goodies come a close second!!