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 Yes! It's Wednesday again! The weeks go whizzing by! Thank you to the fabulous Julia for making all this  possible. Come and join in, just click on Stamping Ground! Last week was our big Day, crafters from everywhere were all going to have a Zoom meet up! I had my new lap top all ready up and running and then poor Mr Jinx, the cat, was suddenly very violently sick! 🙀 Basically he couldn't poop. So off we went to the vets for some  Laxatract... He slept for a whole day and didn't eat;  he's ok now but I didn't remember until Sunday morning that I'd missed the Zoom meet up! 😕 And I really was looking forward to 'meeting' up with you all. (Hmm, Perhaps it's about time I changed my picture, seeing I'm nearly a hundred and ninety-four...)

 

Here's my desk for this week...I do seem to fill it with everything  I need all at the same time. I wanted to make a box for a mug. The one on the left was my first attempt...I had a huge sheet of red card but kept measuring wrong and every bit of red card was now too small so ended up having to make the lid in thick, very dark green card,  and ended up being too small. I'd measured wrong again) Luckily I found another bit of green, and that was fine and once finished it fitted ! Yay! I quickly grabbed the said mug from under the Christmas tree and ripped off the badly wrapped Christmas paper, happily laughing to myself and thinking, 'After all that, I bet it doesn't fit!' I was right...it didn't! 

 

 Well, I wasn't going to give up and the two lids made a nice little flat box! But I really wanted to make a mug Box. So, I turned Sam Calcott's YouTube Video on again and worked out, yes! Me, really me, worked out how to make a bigger box! So the one with the holly paper is my (all afternoon) effort! Big enough for the mug and chocolates and more! And the smaller red one will probably house a smaller mug! Sam put holes on the side of the lid for the ribbon to threadle through, but I decided not to press my luck with making holes and in anycase, if I use the ribbon there, the beads and leaves won't go through. I've also lined the inside to help make the box stronger.  The freebie papers and the chipbpoard shapes, came with a magazine years ago. Now to decide on which ribbon to use and what tag.  In the picture below is what's left of eight 3D Christmas box cards I'd been making on Monday. They were another freebie from a crafting Magazine. They were a bit flimsey, so I added some 160gsm  paper to the back.

 

 Well! That's it! That's what's on my worktop this Wednesday! What's on yours? See you over on the  Stamping Ground! Stay safe! Be Well! Thank you for stopping by!