Odd Socks

Odd socks are a prominent feature in our house. 

They tend to be left in little piles on the landing, 

waiting for a partner that may not show up for weeks!

I found some inspiration on
Tatertots and Jello

and
My Uncommon Slice of Suburbia

My take on the whole thing is a bit more elegant (if I say so myself) because I have no laundry room so it is on display on the landing where anyone can see it.
It came together like this..

Postbox

This was a plain letter rack in a dark brown stain.

All I did was spray it red, painted chipboard letters white an glued them on.

An instant "postbox" by the front door for outgoing post.

Music boxes

The cubbyholes on my desk always accumulate bits,

bits that make it look untidy, various USB leads, notebooks, chargers and so on.

I found a couple of boxes that were a perfect fit and covered them in music sheets to make them look nice.

Easy peasy.

Actually I lie, the boxes didn't fit, at all,

I emptied lots of cereal boxes and other food boxes to find a fit 

but all to no avail. 

I had to somewhat reconstruct a few to get a fit I was happy with and in my frustration I never thought to 

photograph my tormented struggles for your amusement!

So that will be left to your imaginations.

I thought the boxes looked OK but rather bland so I found some felt,

bought some beads, cut out some templates in paper...

used the templates to cut out felt flowers

then I stitched them all like this....

Then I tightened the thread 

and fixed it to make the flowers more 3 dimensional....

then I stacked the flowers and added beads

stitched it ll together

and hot glued it to the front of the boxes.

Much prettier and I'm very pleased with my now much tidier desk

And then there was .....

.... a new name and a new look

Welcome to 

Paint 'n Glue and other things too

All graphics in the header are courtesy of The Graphics Fairy.

If you ever need unusual graphics she probably has what you are looking for,

actually she probably has what you didn't know you should be looking for!!

I need to change......

....the name of my blog

I should have looked in to it before starting, but there seems to be loads of blogs and sites with the same name.
Not so good.

So at some point this name will change.................

question is, to what?????