Being a cheapskate is not good this WOYWW

I have all sorts of goodies spread around

 my desks this week.  

I have something rare first

I tidied the inking station,

well not all of it but hey,

that's a lot for me.

Stop looking at the mess in the background,

you were lucky to see the front bit tidy.

You'd better look now as it won't last long!

Here's the main desk

 Back to the normal mess

but wait, there's something

Doctor Who added there!

Yes I know I'm sad but I couldn't resist

the sonic screwdriver pen and journal

and yes, that's a Tardis cup.

I added some water ripples to Mr P 

but being the cheapskate I am

I used up all of the mixed glaze rather than waste it

and now he's been over rippled.

I'll have to glaze over some of that white (sigh).

Being a cheapskate is really not good

when you need to do sketches.

I have three sets of glasses.

One for seeing, sunglasses and reading glasses.

In this country it is actually cheaper than getting 

graduated, self tanning (or as the boring people say,

light sensitive) glasses.

This seemed okay until I started to sketch

things a little further than my reading glasses could see.

Now I have to do this just to sketch

Of course I look like this, you don't think I would forget to put all the wrinkles in, do you?

and I have to tell you it ain't easy 

to balance all that lot

on your snoz.

I have to lift my head up and down 

to get the right lenses for which bit 

I want to see and it gets really confusing.

Plus my parrot doesn't like

me looking stranger than normal

and jumps up and tries to pull

the glasses off my nose,

that leads to putting the wrong glasses 

back on and I get really into a mess.

 

Now why don't I just get graduated glasses

for sketching, I hear you ask.

Well, that is my plan but you only get

one set of cheap glasses a year and

I've already had one this year,

so in my normal cheapskate way,

I've got to wait until next year to get them.

Until then it's double vision all the way.

 

Kinda gives a whole new meaning 

to four eyes, doesn't it?

Watch this space for some updates

(well I hope)

on my plan to take over the living room.

(mwa ha ha).

 

Now you've seen mine,

hop on over to 

Julia's Stamping Ground

and have a look at the other

desks around the world

this What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday.