WOYWW or should it be WIMWW

....as in... WHERE IS my Workdesk? Wednesday .....

.....well it must be there somewhere... 

As you may have noticed from my looong absence (OK so you didn't even notice...) but it has been about a year since I last saw my workdesk...and maybe 2 years since I last used it. Shocking but true, (and lucky for me there are many more than just 1 desk to choose from for me here at PA HQ)....but the sad truth remains that my real, proper, official, studio desk has been missing in action for at least 3 years. 

In recent weeks it hasn't really been advisable to try to get inside the door of said studio/ storage shed let alone find that desk.....so this is what I now face ....and this is positively accessible compared to how it was 2 weeks ago...

....being of a sharing disposition, I decided if I documented the shed clean-up progress here then maybe I will get to use my desk at some point in the next few weeks! We can only live in hope!! 

It was even documented on this very blog-hop (back in the day many many WOYWW's ago) that Missy Jo Firth-Young would happily take sole responsibility for sorting out my studio/storage shed. I did try to warm her, I did try to let her know it was going to be many many days of toil, spiders and skips....but whenever anyone else offered to assist or jump in she was quick to say 'get your hands off my shed-sorting-job!!!' or words to that effect ...see twitter for transcripts..... so all the chickens came home to roost, and a couple of weeks ago the sort out began....

Jo duly arrived, and 3 days later left again not feeling much progress was made aside from sorting some of the stuff on the floor into 'like for like' piles. She left, and I went in (sneakily and totally unsupervised...shhhh) with a couple of elves Sunday/Monday ...still not feeling the love for the shed, and still feeling it was particularly resistant to having any type of sort out. We did by the end of the day have a whole skip full of stuff tho! Yes a whole skip! And the local schools each had about 8 boxes of all kinds of supplies...they were happy....

Tuesday (yesterday), and with 2 elves to hand and with a day of no-rain ahead of us, Jo returned to the fold...and before her arrival the elves and I got most of the stuff out of the shed...ready for boss-shed-supervisor to advise where we were going to re-position the furniture into the new arrangement.....whihc of course she had artistically mapped out on on a special piece of graph paper earlier - her area of experteeeeeze !

So the pics above are all how the shed looks as of today. This is the progress after 6 or 7 days of slog. Still not feeling the love for the storage/studio space....and still think we have at least another week ahead of toil....we'll keep you posted!

So maybe we'll have a celebratory get together here at PA HQ once the project is completed! Pimms anyone??? Do you think our boss mama from the Stamping Ground would be happy to drop on by for a test-drive of our upgraded studio...loads of space down here on the farm for a summer-shed par-tay....! 

Sounds like another great idea ... Summer Stampfest at PaperArtsy (with Pimms)...anyone know any free live bands?? I'm really liking this idea.....maybe Jo can re-design the garden too.....hmmmm

Watch this space for next week's installment!

Leandra