The One About my Craft Room Update.......

I know that a lot of people are interested in how my craft area is progressing, and I like to keep track of all the stages too so that I can scrap it eventually so here is the next stage.

M finished varnishing the shelving units and put them altogether on Thursday to show what they looked like, bearing in mind they're not in the right room at this point:

Please excuse the mess that is our dining room - another room that needs a make-over!
The drawers have been made especially as 12x12 inches to fit my card and papers :)

Then yesterday we went on the hunt for something that would do for the work tops.  We tried three different places before we ended up in Wickes where we found the wood that we decided to use.  Do you know how difficult it is to find pieces of wood in large widths and depths?  You see we needed it to be at least half a metre wide, with a good 2cm depth to it, and we didn't want laminate as we need to varnish the worktop to match the rest of the wood.  Wickes was the best with a width of 60cm and depth of 2.8cm.  So M has done his initial cutting out, and put it altogether in the craft area (nothing is fixed in yet, and a bit more painting is required - you might be able to spot the odd wall area of white or yellow where I forgot to paint - ooops!), but nothing isfixed in, and the work tops need varnishing still.

The bit in the middle on the chimney breast is where my fold down table is going to go, and M has just gone off to Wickes to get some more wood for that part, and for the hinges for the legs.

Let me know what you think!  And if you have pictures of your craft space on your blog please share them here so that I can have a nosy!  (I'm intending to frame some of my 12x12 LO's and putting them up on the wall running to the left of the craft space, I'm after some of those ones where there is just glass all the way to the edge, with no actual frame.  If anyone knows where I can get any please point me in the right direction!)

And don't forget everyone that it is Storytelling Sunday tomorrow over at Sian's.