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trinket shelves

June 19, 2009 @ 3:22 pm · Filed under: Craft Room

I have lots of little ornaments etc and nowhere to put them, so I made some basic shelves to display them. I had some wood cut at the hardware store to fit the space above my computer desk. I sanded and primed the wood: Then I spray-painted the shelves this gorgeous greyish purple colour and […]

displaying finished work

July 13, 2008 @ 1:44 pm · Filed under: Craft Room, Sewing

Do you ever have the problem of figuring out what to do with things after you make them? Unless a handmade item is a gift or something wearable, I usually don’t know what to do with it, and it ends up buried in a pile of ‘stuff’ or hidden in a box and very rarely […]

chair makeover

March 16, 2008 @ 3:46 pm · Filed under: Craft Room, Sewing, Tutorials

Although I have my new leather desk chair in my craft room, I stored my old chair in the basement, just in case. I saw a great post (‘save your old chair with a new look’) on IKEA Hacker a few weeks ago, and recognised my boring old Svenning chair given a fantastic makeover. Well, […]

completed granny throw

March 6, 2008 @ 2:24 pm · Filed under: Craft Room, Crochet

For the Granny Squares theme on Crochet Along, I decided to make a throw to decorate the office chair in my craft room. I figured out I would need a long strip, 13 squares long and 3 squares wide. When I’d finished all the squares, I measured the finished squares against the chair and decided […]

toy shelves

January 19, 2008 @ 8:52 am · Filed under: Craft Room

A while ago, I bought some glass shelves from IKEA so I can display all my toys in my craft room. We finally got around to putting them up this week: Please click for the full-size image so you can see them properly! Don’t they look great all together like this? I just threw them […]

calm corner

August 28, 2007 @ 10:57 pm · Filed under: Craft Room

We have moved into our new house! Thanks to everyone who sent cards or good wishes by e-mail – it means a lot 🙂 I finally have my new craft room, although it’s currently full of boxes and needs a lot of organising. I have so many ideas for it, but the whole house needs […]