Upcycled shelves into desk organiser

Lovely BM and I have quite a few Ikea DVD towers in our house and we've ended up with quite a glut of spare shelves. So i thought id try and make something out of them.


And this is what i came up with - a desk orgainser!



I just glued the shelves together with 'No More Nails'. First the bottom, sides and middle divider


Then the back


And finally added some cut down shelves as more dividers


As you can see from the first 2 pics and the left side of the pic above the front edges are just exposed wood pulp. I didnt like this so i got some laminate iron on strip samples from ebay, cut them to size and added them to the front edges.

It looks so much more finished that way.



So a pretty handy desk orgainser for lovely BM and all i spent was £1 on the the laminate edging strips. Dont you just love upcycling!

Upcycled Wool Bag

  

I turned this old wool coat of mine into a fab new handbag!
I used this tutorial as a basic starting point but changed all the sizes and omitted the interfacing and fleece as the wool was sturdy enough. I also changed the pleats from multiple single pleats to one double pleat which worked much better with the wool
I L-O-V-E how it turned out and even lovely BM was impressed (pretty hard to do normally!)
And even better it was free!!

Makes i love this week

Great tutorial for a ruffle heart tshirt over at makeit-loveit its for a girls tshirt dress but you could definitely use the same concept on an adult tshirt

Love this picture frame chalkboard from iheartorganizing

Fab enamel painted vases at stayathomeartist

Brilliant embroidery hoop storage bags from craftzine

Love this handmade bag over at  how about orange, might use an old wool coat ive got to make one if these...