T Stands for Tuesday

I am joining Elizabeth and the gorgeous Bleubeard for T on Tuesday with...... yes, TEA!  I am sitting at my desk doing the faffing stage of those spinning turntable drawers...

It's not fancy tea... just Yellow Label but in a cup and saucer... which in my book is the only way to drink it!

This is what the other side looks like... 

and this is what it was supposed to look like... hmmmm... ;)  I had a few issues with Kaisercraft's instructions for the drawers.  It said... 'paper both sides of the drawers'... it didn't say do this before putting them together and didn't indicate how they should be put together... glue, or let the paper do the joining... 

I was completely confuffled... if I papered both sides, the paper would tear when I folded them into the box shape... and how was I to glue them together... the instructions also said 'line up the paper designs so they continue up the drawers'...... HOW? I don't have a gazillion sheets of this stuff... and to get the design to do that it would have to be in strips the width of the drawers.... 

so I tried it on two small drawers.... and hated it... it didn't look good and the bottoms of the drawers were bare chipboard.... and the ugly head of OCD reared and I couldn't continue!

So back to the drawing board and I painted them all dark brown... inside and out and on the bottom! LOL

and instead of covering the complete side I decided to cut the papers down, line up the patterns as in the original and have a frame of dark brown on each and I much prefer it that way. 

So now my cup of tea and me are just decorating it with cogs and pearls and bits... maybe next week when we have tea I will actually be able to show you the finished project! :)

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This is my desk bright and early this Wednesday morning... had to have a good clean up after getting paint everywhere yesterday doing the turntable drawers and I am now going to set to and start making all those chipboard drawers!  When I took this photo a few minutes ago I had to laugh... if anyone out there doesn't believe in sublminal messaging... just take a look at this!

I have spent a good part of the last week looking through all my papers to figure out which ones I wanted to use on the turntable drawers... and then I spotted these and thought (quite smugly) they will be perfect!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, now I wonder why I thought that???   ;)

This is the long cupboard to the left of my desk... and late last night I had a good sort out of what was going to be there... it's a nice to have bug and bigshot where you can use them... and all my dies and embossing folders were still in their packaging and took up a lot of room in one of my cubby holes... so earlier this week I had a light bulb moment! See the orange stripey book at the end of the shelf?

Yep!  I made a book for all my embossing folders using the Kathy Orta hinge binding system!  I love this way of binding books... 

Would you look at that?  This book has 20... yes, 20 embossing folders in it and it isn't even bulging open!

I put a pocket on each side of the page to hold the folders...

I added tags to the page with an example embossed onto cardstock and a little tag telling me who and what.

Added some ribbons and bling to the tags and voila!! I am so pleased with the end result and now I don't have 20 folders in their packaging slipping and sliding about in a drawer.

Don't forget to go over to the leader of the desks, Julia at the Stamping Ground, and link up for the ride of the week!

T stands for Tuesday!

I am joining Elizabeth and Bluebeard for T on Tuesday.... with hot chocolate! ;)

Oh and I felt like I had procrastinated quite long enough and decided to put together the pack of wood and chipboard I pictured last week!  You know there aren't destructions with that kit????  Nope, not a dicky bird on how to put all that stuff together!  So I did what I always do when faced with these situations... I headed for YouTube!!  Yep, there was a video clip from Kaisercraft on how to put them together... a computer generated 'put together' which lasts 35 seconds!! LOL  Let me tell you, that clever computer put the entire thing together faster than I could do one slot!!  Click the link if you want a laugh.

It's not looking much at the moment is it?  I gave it a coat or two of pale aqua... to pick out the aqua in the papers I have chosen... so I am now holding thumbs/crossing fingers that it turns out something like my brain thinks it should!