Gift Swap. Update

It has been pouring with rain here most of the day, but we have drunk tea, eaten biscuits and chatted.
 The Gift Swap //Bring and Buy Sale thingy made a grand total of £62.50 which will be sent to White Lodge. I will divide the remaining gifts between my two children's schools for their Christmas Fayres. I bought  1 Christmas present and a children's Paper Rippling kit for myself. Everyone's a winner!

What's on You Workdesk Wednesday?

Actually, not much, as I had a big tidy up yesterday.

Instead I have a dining table full of unwanted presents (not all mine - how ungrateful would that make me look!) which I am hoping to sell over the course of today. I'm hosting a 'Gift Swap' - a little like a Blue Peter Bring and Buy Sale, for Brits old enough to remember them - in aid of White Lodge.

Most of you probably don't know that my son has hemiplegia, a form of cerebral palsy. You won't know for the simple reason that I haven't mentioned it much on this blog. It's not like it's a secret but crafting and blogging are my escapes from real life and so I haven't really wanted to spill loads of personal stuff.
Suffice it to say; when R was 8 weeks old he suffered a brain injury severe enough to keep him in Great Ormond Street Hospital for a week and leave him with hemiplegia. If you want more details, look at this website - even after 9 years, I'm not good at answering questions about his condition without crying.
R was cared for from the ages of 2-5 at White Lodge Centre, a fantastic facility in Surrey whom we thank for allowing him to cope now in mainstream school.

Anyway, today's Gift Swap is to raise a bit of money for White Lodge, so wish me luck. I'll update tonight with how much we made.

The Stamping Ground is the place to go to see more productive desks.