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and here we all are ready to tour the world squinting into other peoples' craft areas!  You will be amazed at how neat some folk are while crafting and truly gobsmacked at what wonderful things others can make in their own little mess!! Pop over to Julia, our esteemed leader of noseyness, and check out all the fun.

This is my desk this morning... the little dressform is still waiting for her final transformation and on my desk are three large pretend buttons that I made to go on my quilt and rejected... they just didn't sit right so I made some smaller versions that I am happier with.

Here is my Graphic 45 Communique quilt on its new home on the sofa in the family room...

It got the Tom-Tom seal of approval too!  You can also see that I had enough material to make a quilted cushion for the sofa...

Not bad eh?  

and what do you think of my newly invented double binding?  LOL  I wanted a black border around the panel but I also wanted a patterned binding... so I sewed the black binding to the front and the wider patterned binding to the back and the sewed them together... and yes, it was a major faff but it looks so nice I did the same thing to the cushion... a beggar for punishment.. that's me!

and the beady eyed will notice that above the sofa is a picture... which I have 'altered' slightly!! LOL

It used to look like this... and when we were putting the pictures up a few weeks ago, Chris mentioned that he had never really liked it... so I thought he wouldn't mind me playing with it... at least, I think it was that one he said he didn't like... its been changed for 3 days and he hasn't noticed yet so I think I got away with it... 

This is the first set of buttons I did...

and this is the second set... still on the fence post about them...

I love how the puffed up bits look on it... they were fun to do... NOT!!  

So with the altered TV unit with the Communique papers and the Ikea box on the top... think that is my family room sorted quite nicely for now!

Playing with paint....

In the corner of the family room at the end of my kitchen is this corner TV unit which we picked up secondhand from expats leaving to go back to the States.  I don't like it... all the furniture in the house is the dark wood of the desk that is next to it... it looks weird and is badly scratched and must have been sat in the sun because the top has a faded area where their television used to sit.

See?  Urgh.... so after Chris left for work this morning I thought I would see if I could do anything with it.

It's not looking very promising is it?  In fact, at this stage I even said out loud to the cats that Chris was going to kill me.... LOL  but what's a girl to do when she has gone that far?  

OK... a couple more coats and it isn't looking too bad!!

and a quick trip down to the scraproom and some paper on the front of the drawer... and sand the edges back a bit and red ink the bare wood to give it some depth...

Pop everything back on and in it....

Do you think he will notice when he gets in from work in an hour or so? ;)

UPDATE:   Chris had been home 3 hours and hadn't noticed... and the door to the right of the tv unit is the door to his study... so its not like he didn't have to walk right past it! LOL  Then he called downstairs to me in the scraproom and said ' it looks very nice'   LOL... he had checked my blog for updates and realised what he had missed.... so though he lost points for not noticing, he gained points for taking the time, after a busy day at work, to check my blog!! :)