Just about there...

I'm hoping that a couple hours tomorrow will finish this. I never have the nerve to take pictures of my workroom at its worst so even if I showed you how it looks now, you probably wouldn't think there had been much improvement. Other than immediate family, my friend Joanne is the only person who ever gets to see it "as is".

I do have one small indicator of how much work has been done in one area at least. While I've put away a lot of tools, supplies and mini furniture, probably the most time-consuming part has been bagging, sorting and hanging all manner of accessories (and some items with possibilities for accessories in the future).

To give you some idea of how much I've accomplished in that regard:

I started with this overflowing box of pushpins:

And these are left:

I was totally blown away myself when I realized just how many pieces that represented - well over 100, I'm sure.

Today was simply spent sorting and putting away but I did play with one thing. VBG...You know I can't resist!

I came across a piece that at first glance looked like a button. It was some quilling paper that I had wound and wound into a flat piece about 5/8" -  3/4" across. Sorry, it never occurred to me to take a picture of it in that state.

Anyway, I pushed down on the centre of it and shaped it into a bowl. Then gave it several coats of clear nail polish (1) to hold the shape and (2) give it a gloss finish.

HELP! Please!

I've tried everything I can think of, including putting this over a domed form to shape it but I cannot get a smooth finish on the bowl.

It's not the end of the world...these bowls look pretty good in a cupboard or on a counter...and if you fill them with cookie dough - who cares?!

Well, darn it, I do! There has to be a way...and I really want to know what it is...Please!

Another interesting thing:

I found 9 copies of a book I made a long time ago.

It's a book of 20 inspirational pages including these :

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow"

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old: you grow old because you stop laughing."

If you'd like a copy of this, I'll mail a book to the first five followers who send me their snail mail addresses to mheucher@shaw.ca 

Slow going...

Every time I clean, I promise myself that I'll just put things away. But every time I come across items just waiting to be made and I just can't stop myself. VBG

I had taken these beads and mini brads out of one of my bead boxes with the intention of making a series of spice jars. Rather than put them back, decided to go ahead and make the jars.

I got these tiny scrapbooking brads (5/16" long) on clearance at Michael's in Kelowna. I've had the beads (7/32" long) for years.

Using my Pilot pen, I painted the ends of the brads silver.

 I clipped about 1/3 off the ends of the brads.

Dipped the ends of the brads in glue and inserted them in  the beads. And, voila, six spice jars for the kitchen!

Also on the table was a partial sheet of paper with two Lysol can strips and two spray starch strips. Makes more sense to make them up than tuck the paper away...and it also gave me a chance to try my new quilling tool.