Hand Crafted Memories

Where did this week go? I've been really busy with my new office/craft room and the time has just flown. It looks fantastic, even better than I had imagined. Just a couple of finishing touches and I'll be able to take pictures. I bought an office chair from Argos but it looked so big and black in my lovely light room. It's a shame that there really isn't much choice in colours unless you want to pay a fortune., so I bought some fabric to match the blind and turned this: into this: I love it and it's really comfortable. It's still a bit too black but I can live with it better now. The added bonus was that it was free. I asked if I could use my nectar points that I've been collecting towards it, and I had enough to pay for it. I love free! I've completed this weeks Pencil Lines challenge Sketch 126 and this what I came up with. I had to turn it on it's side because of the photos orientation but I think it still worked. I'm so happy with my new ...

Here is the first stage of the book. Shimelle wasn't wrong when she said it would take a while, what did make it easier was using my xcut glass cutting mat. All the edges came off perfectly and I didn't have to sand them to make them neater. I still need to find the photos to go into it but I'm sure once I've filled in my prompt sheet ideas will come. I've been choosing the units to go into my craft room, and great news the ones I want are half price at B&Q at them moment, hooray for B&Q sales. This is the one I want with a beech worktop. The sale is only on until 5 th February, so I will have to put them in the garage until I empty the room. I also need to let the electrician do his bit first, I want a whole bank of extra sockets putting along the wall. I hate using extension cables so thought I might as well get some extra power put into the room when it's empty. This is turning into a mammoth job but will be well worth it when I've finished

I think it's time I sorted myself a scrap room cum office out. I do scrap booking and card making, sometimes it's in my kitchen and other times it's on top of a set of drawers in my spare bedroom. So I end up carting things up and down stairs, then of course I can't find what I want because I've taken it downstairs and now I'm working upstairs. AAAGGGH! Does that sound familiar? So it's time do get things organised. That is my key word this year organised, I didn't make any New Year resolutions because I never keep them. I always try to keep my promises, so I promised to get my life organised. I'm beginning by creating a craft room, watch this space for the after photos. Here are the before photos.