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Hi peeps! t's been awhile since I posted on WOYWW. Well here is what my craft desk looks like this morning:

Funny thing though...this is what it's looked like for 2 days now. I was a happy little bunny colouring in a bunch of digi stamps whne my hubby so rudely interrupted me. He dragged me away from my craft room and that was 2 days ago and I've not been back since...even to tidy up! I go by the room every once in awhile to longingly look at my lovely Copics but am feeling a bit uninspired. Bleck!

On the positive side, it's a gorgeous sunny day here is Essex and I made it actually into the room itself to take this photo. I'm going in there in a few minutes to finish that digi stamp and finsh my DT projects...I mean it, I really am...lol. Go ahead and join us over at WOYWW and show us what's on your craft desk.

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The beautiful UK weather has had me out and about a little or the heat had me in bed trying to keep cool. Since being paralysed, my body doesn't like the weathers changes very much and it takes awhile to get acclimated. So when it got so warm, my body, being the rebel that it is, swelled up to twice it's size and then terrible leg pain from the swelling. (Yes even paralysed I can feel pain. It's actually a blessing.) But I have been in my craft room the last few days making (or sttempting to make) some craft goodies. Thought I would share this over at WOYWW.  Here's what I got on my desk today:

I've been thinking about doing a couple of Christmas Craft Fairs so I thought I could whip up some cheap and cheerful goodness for Christmas. So last night and this affy, I'm making some altered clothes peg sets. Here are the pegs painted. Don't mind the whitish ones. They are a major crackled effect FAIL. The crackle I used stinks!!! It's the Plaid FolkArt one, this is the second time I've used it and the second time it failed to crackle. Maybe I have a bad or old batch? Gosh I hope so because I'm going to have to throw this junk away and get a new crackle glaze...ugh!

Above I'm using my old craft sheet under neath but...on the other side of my desk is my brand new craft sheet (which I haven't used yet because I want to protect it...weird I know.) Since my desk is so big and WHITE, I wanted to cover as much of it as possible when inking and painting so I bought me a huge one! It's 50 x 100 cm and it takes up over half my desktop...woo hoo! You'll see it once I get my video camera set up and running. You want a big giant craft sheet to protect a big area and are in the UK?  I got it here: Craft Obsessions. They have 50 x 50 cm, 50 x 100 cm and 80 x 100 cm. You can also request bespoke sizes as well so you can have basically any size you need. The 50 x 100 does me fine though I wish I had bought the 80 x 100 one. Great price on them too!

That's all from me today. Hope you all have a wonderful day and those in the UK I hope you get outside and enjoy the weather while you can!

Hugs, Dorothy

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I haven't posted to WOYWW in the last few weeks because showing a messy  DIY zone was getting a bit boring...lol. I'm posting today so guess what that means? It's about DONE! Here is what it looks like today:

Here is a small glance at my little craft room corner and what's on my new desk. I'm painting shelves for a little vestibule on the wall behind me (a pic is further down post.) I bought my hubby a new power saw for his birthday just so he could cut me some shelves...lol. They are cut from a piece of MDF which are being painted white. I still have another coat of white to do plus varnish.

Want to see the rest of my almost complete room? Here it is!

Here are some more photos of my new craft room. Notice on the pegboard the frame isn't finished being put up. It's done now though. At the end I'm going to list the supplies and stuff I used to put my little room together. All that's left is to fill it with all my crafting goodness and go pick up my short drawer set that matches the colourful tall one...lol.

I created my own stencil for this word across my wall. I used 300 gsm cardstock and cut with craft knife since my Silouette was packed away.

PEGBOARD...yeah! It was hard to find here in the UK as slatboard is what is used most in Europe YUK! This was so cheap and cheerful to put together, even the hooks were cheap. I bought white pegboard and stenciled the pattern in the blue paint. I used matt spray varnish to coat the whole pegboard so the paint wouldn't wear off so easily.

Here is the other end of my desk. I already had this set of plastic drawers. I wans't going to use them but they really did go well witht he rest of the room so now I'll get the shorter set to match for the other side. I might even get 2! Notice my hutch is back. It's not that old, about 8 months so kept that too.

This is the other wall. There is this recess in it that had these horrible homemade shelved nailed up in it. They were crooked and too thick for the small space and took them down years ago. My hubby had this good idea while waling around B&Q. Less that £25 for the metal back rails, shelf holders and the MDF we cut the shelves from. Not bad huh?

So that's my craft space. It's not that big and storage is going to be interesting but I'm a relatively new crafter so don't have a ginormous amout of stuff yet but getting there (to my hubby's chagrin.) Here is a list of the supplies I used to decorate my room and where I got them. Some items will have the prices as well since I did my best to do this on a budget. Hope you like it...I sure do. It will inspire me for a good while...lol.

Furniture:
Desk - Ikea, Galant Corner Desk w/1 side extension in white
Hutch - Ikea, Hemnes Add on unit in white stain
Drawer Set - Hobbycraft, Really Useful Drawer Unit tall
Recess Shelving - Wickes, Single Slot Metal Upright x 2, Single Slot Brackets 150mm x10,
                              B&Q, MDF for shelves (we got it for under £10 in store, not as priced on website)

Paint:
White Matt Emulsion - Homebase
Colour Paint - Wilkinson's Neptune Matt (This paint was not very nice to work with. It was too thick and had too much vinyl in to so it peels off when dry. Next time I'll get a better quality. Paint is brighter than seen on web.)

Stencils:
Create Word - 300 gsm cardstock printed with 1 letter per A4 sheet. Font used: Cafe Rojo
Round stencil on Pegboard - Pronty Mask Stencil 12" x 12" (I'm having my daughter add the stencil on the wall in a few more places too.)

Pegboard:
Pegboard - White faced Perforated Hardboard (pegboard) 2440 x 1220 x 3.2mm (You can only find this stuff at timber/lumber suppliers here in the UK. Not everywhere has it in white either. The place above was only place I found that did. Ordered it online to have it picked up. Had it cut to measure.)
Hooks for Pegboard - 4" Euro Hooks
Wood for base - 1" x 2" approx. wood bars
Frame -  Wood Architraving (OK tried to get framing wood but here in the UK it's so darn expensive that it wasn't affordable to frame the 1550 x 735 mm piece of pegboard so used basic architraving instead...cheap cheap!)

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Not much crafting going on in my craft room lately because the room has finally been packed up and my new desk arrived! Here is what my current desktop looks right this moment:

Very very empty. Sad isn't it? lol I do have my new desk, it's just not put together yet. Hubby of mine won't have time until Saturday to put it up. :( I still need to buy some drawers or units of some sort to go underneather the desk to store all my crafty goodness. I packed up my stuff yesterday and I found a few bits I forgot I had like these cool 12" Bazzil decorative strips and a box of pastel brads among other things. Here is the main part of my desk that's arrived:

It's HUGE. Also yesterday I received a little something in the post that I'm looking forward to working with. I'll be testing them out tomorrow so I'll report my outcome tomorrow night. Have to get in at least a little bit of crafting sometime. So until then...y'all have a wonderful blessed day!

Thanks for lookin at my sad little desk.

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I have such a lovely Hubby. He is helping me redesign my craft room and he surprised me the other day by clearing out most of my craft room! I didn't even get a chance to take any "before" pics when the room was realllllly cluttered. What you see below is all that's left in my room...my messy craft desk! Thought I would post this over at WOYWW to show off my mess...lol.

Basically what you see on my worktop is leftover bits that didn't get packed away yet and my hutch of death which isn't as orgaised as I thought it would be. :( This whole set up is going though. My new Ikea Galant corner desk with some extention parts is going in the far right corner. It will run all across the back wall and up the side wall almost to the sink. This will give me lots of counter space plus the openess underneath will hold a few more storage drawers than those cabinets above. My desk top had to be delivered though as it wouldn't fit in the car...it arrived just over an hour ago. Yippee!

Another thing...going on the wall under the window, is pegboard! It's called perforated hardboard here in the UK. Once the desk is put together we will measure the space between the window and desktop and cut the pegboard to go in there. I got a bunch of Ikea storage buckets and rails to hang on there. This will greatly solve my problem of having to have everything lower down so I can reach them in my wheelchair. Here's another photo of the side wall where the pegboard is going (yes I have a hot AND cold water sink in my craft room:)

I desperately need new curtains on these windows. I'm not crazy about lace and I'm too short to be able to open and close curtains so I'm thinking about getting some funky black and white blinds instead. I can use a grab stck to pull the blinds up and down much easier methinks. The end wall is staying red and other walls staying white but I will be having red, black and white accents as well.


Thanks for looking and reading with me today...go do something crafty today! (I sure can't until me room is done...blah.) LOL