Whats on your Workdesk (and the floor) Wednesday - TWINS!

Yes I have twin Vagabonds on my desk!  in December of last year I had a huge job to cut 20 kits for Tims 12 Tags for a class that I was teaching in Johannesburg.  On the Sunday 11 December, I broke my Vagabond!  I did not seethe red writing on the shim that says you must not run 2 of the decorative strip dies next to each other or you could damage the machine and negate the warranty... That's because I don't use the shim as I have stuck the labels from the packaging on the dies and therefore do not need any extra thickness...This instruction is not written anywhere else, so if you have one, read everything is all I can tell you.  Needless to say, I had to get the job done and using a hand winding machine was not an option so I had to go buy another one!

Anyway, back to the twins.  Seeing as the I had negated the warranty, my hubby opened it up and had the motor tested which came back fine and then set about replacing the bits on the electronic board and it was the fuse that had blown!

Now I have two fully functional Vagabonds!  How cool is that, I can have a VB party!

On to the stuff on the floor.

I found this cool vintage suit case and am in the process of improvising a rising tray system to be able to store all my Timmy stuff to be able to use on my desk and to take it to classes etc.  The second pizza box lying in the lid will go on stilts too eventually.  Though I am using tongue depressors and brads at the moment, I will be getting some metal to replace them and some proper rivets to hold it all in place, but for now it is a proto type...I am really enjoying this.

Lastly, here is the Advent calender I made from a printers tray, that I found on the same day as the case when I went hunting for bargains at all the second hand shops in my area.  Just folding the boxes took 3 hours, thank goodness I did that at a friend so I could chat through the monotony...I had cut them on my eCraft cutter

Now I am off to Julia's desk where she hosts the world wide desk hop and see what all my friends have been up to in the past week.  See you there!

Thanks for stopping by.

Bella