WOYWW #610: The 100-day challenge and other things

I'm pretty sure my mojo lives on my desk and when I tidy up, I do away with my mojo as well. The exact same thing happened in January last year! However, I'm back today after a few weeks' absence to share my not-so-tidy desk on WOYWW. I'm sure it will now get progressively messier but if that's the price to pay for my mojo to return, so be it! Remember those inky bits I posted last time that I didn't know what to do with? I used them to make this little folder type thing: 

But I'm getting ahead of myself. What really kicked me into action was The 100-day-project running on Instagram (#the100dayproject) that started on January 31st. I had pretty much decided NOT to do it (even though I'd been playing with the idea for the past couple of years) - but then I bumped into this blog post by Roben-Marie Smith which made me realise that it doesn't need to be a big thing and I CAN do it on my own terms, even if I joined in a bit late. 

So I got cracking last week and came up with a concept: I'm working on 100 teabags in weekly batches of 7 with a theme for each week. I even made a prototype to see how it might work! I chose the theme "colourful postage stamps" for my first weekly batch and numbered them 001-007. This will help keep track - and I even found a little box where I can collect them! So this will keep me occupied until at least May - and it also allows me to indulge in other projects at the same time if I feel like it. This is what I posted for the first week: 

In other news: I've finally finished the extremely fiendish circular puzzle. There was no way I would break it up after all the blood, sweat and tears, so I glued it together for eternity. (Now I don't know what to do with it LOL!) Interestingly, and inexplicably, I really missed it when it was finished - I can only liken the feeling to a kind of withdrawal syndrome! Here it is all glued together, just to prove that I did it:

I've also finished my second large diamond painting and I had to stop myself from starting another one. I call it my guilty pleasure! They're now both sealed and I'll have to find a way to hang them on the wall. They are quite pretty really when they twinkle, but it's hard to take a good photo. 

We haven't had much snow around here but on a clear day you can see the Malvern Hills from the back of the house. They're much further than the photo shows - zoomed in, they almost look like mountains!

That's it for today! Thanks for your visit. Sending much love to Shaz and Doug, who are going through a rough time. Get well Shaz! We all miss you on WOYWW! xx