What's on You Workdesk Wednesday 30th November 2011

Whoah!!  This will be the last WOYWW for November... eeeeek, you know what that means?  Crimbo is coming.... Crimbo is coming!!   I've had quite an interesting week here in Calgary... on Monday we had some weather... in the form of grade 1 tornado winds!!  The house next door lost half it's roof tiles, the one over the back lost half it's roof tiles... the cats and I were getting pretty worried there for a while but it seems that the only damage we have is a lot of roof tiles in the garden via my generous neighbours ;) and a corner of the tiles above the garage got lifted but not torn off... phew!!

This is the house across the road... such a shame as they only had that roof done about 4 weeks ago!!

So I have been down in the basement playing with the tray that I picked up at the thrift shop a couple of weeks ago... the bright yellow one...

It really didn't have much going for it in that colour... but I could see it had potential as one of those 7Gypsy type trays that cost about $20... this was $2.... which was fine by me!!

I gave it a coat of brown paint...

then a coat of bronze paint... and a coat of crackle glaze...

then painted it black and watched it crackle... I like that bit best!!

So that is what is on my desk today... all the bits and pieces to go into the sections...

and to add a bit of interest I took a shot of the corner where I sit and play

and then a swing to the right to reveal the wall... which is dire need of a tidy up!

and a close-up of the tray as it is now... it just needs glueing into place before I change my mind again!!

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What's on You Workdesk Wednesday 16th November 2011

I'm back!!  I haven't really had anything on my desk for a couple of weeks as Mum and I have been busy doing other things so I hope you missed me! You didn't?  Poop...  LOL
We did go to charity/thrift shop the other day and I picked up some bits that will be lovely to alter and play with so that is what is on my desk today... I have ideas for each item so that should keep me busy in the coming days now that Mum has returned to France and Chris is off on Thursday to Fort Mac for two weeks.

The polystyrene head was not my idea... Chris found a huge rack of them in the thrift store and came and found me saying he had found something he knew I would love.... he was correct!! I picked up two of them... I am going to have an experiment to see what sort of finish the polystyrene will take...

the flattish tray was for holding a dolly and magnetic clothes but the both the dolly and the clothes were MIA but it reminded me of the 7Gypsy trays so I am hoping with a little paint and paper it will turn out looking something like them and the little set of drawers were too cute to leave behind.

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