Showing posts with label printer's tray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label printer's tray. Show all posts

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday 2nd March 2011

Just keep telling me spring is coming... it snowed hard straight after I finished shovelling the driveway and path so I had to go and do it again and it was cold - I mean really really cold!!  The temperature barometer thingy was telling me -29 degrees C but the weatherman on the TV explained that with the wind chill factored in it was more -42... and let me tell you, -42 is COLD!!  I couldn't feel my face or fingers by the time I had finished and now I want spring to arrive... please?  But... you probably aren't here for a weather chat and as it is Wednesday I guess I should show you what is on my work desk....
To the observant amongst you it may look familiar... but the last time you saw it, it was in one piece!!
Yep, I had a catastraphe in the scrap room... namely a little furry person known as Tom-Tom!!  He knocked it off the ledge and it crashed to the floor and lots of the bits that had been painstakingly glued into place either jumped out or broke off.... :(  OK... it was not entirely Tom-Tom's fault as at the time he was being chased by Pandora so she must take some of the blame!!
So I have decided to spend the day fixing it... and maybe making it a bit more stable... by adding a wider chipboard box section to the bottom - yep, my little house is going to get a basement!! LOL
The two culprits... investigating their toy bin....
Don't forget to pop over to Julia's for the list of fellow desks to peak at...

Saturday, 20 November 2010

Time ATC's

Last night I sat and made a little box for my printer's tray type house thing... so now there is something in the attic!!
 and while I had all these little squares of chipboard all over my desk I thought I may as well make some tags to hang from the roof...
and I think I got a better pic of the sewing square this morning when it was light...
hmmmm, maybe not! LOL
As it is -20 degrees outside and Chris had to go into work this morning because they have a panic on... I thought I would sit in the scrap room with a mug of hot chocolate and use up a few more bits of the chipboard offcuts so I made some Time themed ATCs and added some of the left over bits from the tray!!
They look a little washed out in this photo... they are a much richer colour and have a lovely Glimmer mist glint to them in real life.... poop! :(   A photographer I am not... I will try and get a better photo or nobody will want to swap with me!! LOL




Friday, 19 November 2010

Printer's Tray.... sort of....

The lady in my local scrap shop must have looked at all the stuff in my basket and fingered out I might be the sort of person who would find one of the 7Gypsy and Ranger's Configuration trays of interest as she took me along the aisles and showed me them... I declined to purchase one as they aren't cheap!!   But... I still liked the idea so I got my sheets of chipboard out and started cutting it up!!
Once the construction side of it was completed the fun bit began and I stuffed it full of all sorts of bits and pieces that represent home to me.
Well, there had to be a putty cat in there somewhere, didn't there?
I am a big romantic at heart...
the locks and keys that keep us safe...
the importance of my family...
my growing collection of birdcages...

my love of jewelry and beautiful things...
My crafts... sort of figured the sewing theme looked better than a mini scrap shop!! ;)
And yes, I know there is nothing in the attic... I am sort of working on the idea of a heap of boxes and trunks to go up there... which would represent all the boxes of stuff sitting unpacked in my home in Scotland from all our trips!!  
Speaking of birdcages... when I was out shopping the other day I saw these lovely little feather birds that you can clip on your Christmas tree... well, I have big brown bears on my tree this year but I picked one up to sit on the top of my latest bird cage which sits with the other on the long shelf on the third floor of the house.  Pandora was the first one to find it clipped onto the cage and promptly attacked it.... so to save it, I put it inside the cage where it sat safely for a couple of days... until yesterday....
Hmmm, so how do we get in there?
Ok... you put your paw in that side and I'll reach in from here....
You pat it over to here.... where my mouth is...
I've got it!!  I've got it!  Darn thing won't fit through the bars....
I found the tail feathers when I woke up this morning... RIP little birdie.... LOL