19 August 2005
It's been an overcast, rainy day since I woke up. Even with my lamp on, the crafty room is dark. But my desk is cleaner than it's been in months! So what do I do? Take shadowy photos in the yellow lamp-light? Yessir!
My lovely clean desk. I like to keep it sooo clean. It never gets messy, never. Click the above image to enlarge.
When I was in the states, I found this 'vanity tray' in Target's bathroom section. I love the little rose/ribbon detail on the edges, but I don't have a vanity.
What I do have is a lot of wall space. I fixed some picture hangers to the back (very carefully!) and put it on the wall for use as a shadow box. And shadowy it certainly is. Right now it holds my mini sausage dog in a jacket, a photo taken in Windermere (one of my treasured photos I developed myself), a little ceramic sheep, a paper cut-out, a ceramic mother horse and foal, the original tiny mouse, my crochet monkey in a dress, and a corduroy clutch.
I've been meaning to post about those last two since I made them. . . but I haven't. I should add the clutch to the shop, but I really like looking at it.
I bought this old medicine cabinet off ebay (it's very small; olden days people must not have been addicted to so many prescription drugs). I sanded the old dingy paint off and started to paint it white. I actually coated the whole thing, but it was my first time using gloss paint for metal, and it was thick and drippy in some spots.
It sat wrapped up waiting for some more sanding and painting until today. I decided the uneveness wasn't so bad -- definitely not as bad as just letting it sit, useless -- and touched up the worst areas and put it to work. I'm so glad I did; it's great for hiding little cluttery things, and I love the crappyness of the mirror. It's something I'd expect to see somewhere else and then dream about for days. Instead, I've got it for my very own.
Lastly, my magnet board from Ikea. Even though we hung it months and months ago, I only had a couple things stuck to it; I don't know why. When I came back from the States, I had a few things I wanted to be able to look at (the mini quilt with the fruit-dyed fabric, one of the lovely Victorian-y cards I bought, a magnet from the Walker Art Center, etc), so I cobbled everything together. It's much more inspiring to look at now, which was the intended purpose in the first place.
There are a couplefew things in the photographs that I've made but never mentioned, namely because they weren't my ideas. Obviously, many crafted items are inspired by bits and pieces one picks up along the way, but sometimes I see things and think, 'I want to do that!' So I do it, but I don't show it around, because I don't feel like it's mine to show. I think/hope that's the right thing to do; have other people come across this dilemma?
What is it they say? Never trust a skinny cook or a tidy crafter?
posted by Laura at January 31, 2005 12:00 AM
I wonder how come MY craft desk is always so messy when you are done using it? It never looks that clean by the time you fly away.
posted by momma at August 19, 2005 12:00 AM