WOYWW

Well, you asked for it,Your Majesty,Wondrous Queen of WOYWW!
Here's the whole sorry mess of the table and Sofa, as requested by Julia. It has been worse but this week I had only spent a couple of hours at the table.
Pity my poor husband with his OCD and this mess! He's like a cat on a hot tin roof until I've finished and cleared it away. Only then is he happy, but of course he has to hoover the Lounge before totally relaxing.
You can see the messed-up throw at the far end where I sit, and the rubbish bin in all it's glory. Never let it be said that I don't recycle, because that's a plastic carrier bag in there, which gets emptied after a craft session and eventually goes in the rubbish itself when it's sticky and gunky enough!
On the sofa there's a box under the guillotine that I don't think you've seen before. It holds my supply of alphabet and word stickers. Another new-to-you item is on the table itself with the ruler resting on top. It's a box of brads, another of my loves, along with buttons and ribbon! The box is full of brads in every colour and size, from every manufacturer known to man (and woman). Under the 2010 album is my box of American Crafts white cardstock - yes, that Bargain Buy is still here, and I have half a box to use up! I'm always open to ideas.
If you'd like to join in WOYWW madness, hop over to see Queen Julia and leave a link to your craft-table photo. We'll all be round to take a look.

52 in 10; Prompt 5

This week's prompt for 52 in 10 is Family. I'm half-regretting (if there's such a word!) my choice of 12x6 format for my album as the size of page doesn't give me enough room to explore each Prompt in detail. To get around that choice today I used two pages, making a 12x12 layout, but split into two halves to fit in the album.

I used Bo Bunny and My Mind's Eye papers along with green Provo Craft word stickers (which don't show up very well on the photo). There are journaling tags under the girls' photos describing each of their characters. As I've said before, they are so different in appearance and character too. Jenni is chatty, bubbly and The Scrapbooker. Karen is quirky, creative and The Photographer.
I sometimes wonder how people choose their childrens' names. How did you choose yours? I was going to be Andrew but that was hastily changed to Ann when the expected boy turned out to be me!
I chose Jennifer's first name because I have always liked it and Hubby was tasked with choosing her middle name. It seems that the oldest girl in his family is always called Ruth (I think I was taken for a ride with that tale!) so Ruth she is. But, for our second child, roles were reversed and Hubby got to choose the first name. Never give a man an important job, I say! I had Elizabeth ready weeks beforehand for the middle name- we knew she was a girl -  but she remained nameless for three days, poor thing, because Hubby couldn't decide!!
Eventually she was named after Karen Carpenter because he liked her singing voice. That's the honest truth.
(I've just Googled Karen Carpenter and discovered her middle name was Anne - now there's a coincidence!)
Perhaps I should have devoted the 'Family' page to how our family got their names?!