Make-Shift Draw

Hi All,

I was looking at one of the desks in the house recently. Thinking about how to re-organise some items on it. My craft desk – well – it is busy and messy in its own way. Most of the time rather neat but when I’m working on a project it’s like KABAM mess. My mess though. You know? When something is messy but makes sense to you? Yeah that’s my mess. But the desk in our bedroom. That is the one I like to do my quiet time at. Reading. Journaling. That kind of thing.

On the desk there are two small shelving layers. It wasn’t enough for me, so I’ve added over time some other furniture pieces so I can stack more valuable things on the desk. Like I have this thin, but tall shelving box for my books. That way when I’m journaling, I can swap and change through various books. Also included is books of interest, motivation or just sweet little books I’ve received as gifts over the years are collected here.

I’ve also got my little nick-nacks all over the table. Like my moisturiser and lip-balm. So, I decided I really need to think of something to help my desk be a bit user-friendly. Imagine if I was to ask my Hubby to get something off my desk, like my lip-balm. “Oh, sure where is it?” “yeah just on my desk on the bottom shelf towards to right hand side, or maybe it’s rolled an is on the left-hand side. Yeah just look all over the whole desk for it…” that’s not very practical.

And so, I’ve created this make-shift draw. I used a left-over cereal box. This one, in particular, was quite nice as it was a bit wider on the base then some cereal boxes I’ve seen. Then I simply cut the height down to size, to fit into the small shelving squeeze. Covered it up in some LOVELY paper. Couple of hole punctures and a piece of ribbon created a make-shift handle. And WALLAH a mini draw, for my mini odds and ends.

Hope this week is a sweet inspiration!

Bye for now.