WOYWW 800 - What a milestone!

I’m here!  I’m here!  I nearly wasn’t though 😬

It's WOYWW time again... and this week sees the 800th post/week of WOYWW.

It was started by lovely Julia Dunnit, and Julia has recently passed the torch to Sarah Brennan of Sarah's Craft Shed to continue the WOYWW phenomenon into the future.

Last week, Sarah asked us to share this week our first ever desk picture that we posted for WOYWW. I'm quite fortunate, I think, in that we've moved around quite a bit and I recall which house we were living in the first time I posted - so that gave me a date range.  I was quite surprised to learn that my first week was week number 62, all the way back on 10 August 2010.  So about 15 months into the "show and tell" shenanigans.

It's a bit cleaner and tidier than the current state of affairs, and I had all the intentions but still didn’t make the effort to get the space tidy for this week. The week 62 post says that I'd been instructed to keep the space clean and tidy so Mr B could work at it as well for school stuff, because he didn't like clutter.  ROFL.  Our house is one big clutterfest these days.

It's also interesting that, back then, WOYWW regularly got over 100 joiners.  That number has considerably dropped off now (still doesn't necessarily mean that I get round to everyone though!) and I took a hiatus of a couple of years myself before re-joining albeit somewhat intermittently.  Life gets in the way, some of our deskers have passed away or stopped crafting (or changed what they were doing), and some just stopped posting. I do need to get back into my crafting a lot more though.

So this week, what have I been up to?  

More work on the WOCs SAL though it’s not the most up to date photo...

Five days for WIPGO on Lilith of Labrador...

A trip to Bristol for the stitchers day at Engineers House in Clifton... (that was an early start - I picked my travel companions up at 0530 - yikes!)

Family news this week - as it's now official following an announcement to our clients on Tuesday, I can share that the job I've been working at since moving to Cornwall in May 2019 is coming to an end.  The decision has been made to close the business for various reasons which I won't go into now, and that leaves myself and my colleague Jeanette looking for alternative employment as of the 1st Jan 2025. I see it as a big opportunity to make a change, although whether or not I will remains to be seen.  We will have to see which doors open...

Dare I say it? Here’s to the next 800 WOYWW’s? That’s a tad ambitious I suppose, but the sentiment is definitely there!

Happy Hopping to you all…

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WOYWW 799 - Madam YoYo

 Hello again

I'm not very good at keeping up with the blog.  I'm doing better this year than the last couple of years but we're a work in progress that far.  Actually remembered on Tuesday that Wednesday is WOYWW (previously hosted by the lovely Julia and now by the equally lovely Sarah Brennan at Sarah's Craft Shed), so here I am prepping a post for tomorrow. 

The trouble is that there's never a lot of movement on my craft desk, other than to pile things higher!  

The dolls' house is still hanging out on the dining table.  I'd like to get that cleared before Xmas but unfortunately it's more likely to be the new year before that happens.  There's a few spanners in the work between now and then but things will ease up in the new year and I'll have more time for fixing the behemoth,  More on that next week.

I did finish Three of Crafts but I'm not sharing a pic of that until it's fully finished off (FFO'd).

Dragon With Embroidery has moved along a little....

As has the World of Cross Stitching's SAL.  Will I ever catch up?  Of course - however the last part will be released next month, and I'm considerably behind (4 parts - yikes), but it's been enjoyable to stitch.  

Will I do another one next year?  Not sure - I have a lot of works in progress (WIPs) and I would really like to reduce the number and get some finishes in.  I've got a couple of really big pieces to work on that are going to take a couple of years at the current rate and so I'd like to give them a bit more time and attention.

I've also worked on Lilith of Labrador - here's her current state next to a pic of what she's supposed to look like finished.

I'm off to the Bristol Stitching Day in Clifton on Saturday with some friends, and will take her with me to work on.  She's part of WIPGO for September and I'm running out of days to get my 5 day quota worked on.

Energy levels here are pretty low.  We just had a week's holiday in Tenerife to rest and recharge our batteries, and both ended up catching stinking colds - typical!  Nearly over those now though but it did spoil the end of the trip for us a bit.

So a bit of a brief catch up, see you when I next see you!

Morti

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