Altered Extendible Cutlery Tray - Made into a Storage Unit

Altered Extendible Cutlery Tray - Made into a Storage Unit

BEFORE I GET STARTED:  You may have noticed that when you come over to my blog that the address may redirect to www.craftyloops.com.....that's because I bought the domain name.....Yippee.  However, nothing has changed.  If you put in my blogspot address, you will still find me.  It just redirects the name to my dot com address.  But I'm still a blogger girl.  Everything I do is still run by Blogger.  And in case you want to know where I was able to buy my dot com domain name from (for just £2 a year), I got it from godaddy.  I have not been sponsored to advertise for them....this is simply where my 13 year old brother told me to go and buy my domain name......and if he tells me where to go and buy it from, then I listen.  He's a child prodigy, lol.

I haven't been crafting as I'm sure you are aware by my distinct lack of attendance in Blogland.  I have been doing out my craft room.....new furniture going in, tonnes of re-organising, destashing, rehashing etc., etc.  And after all that......the whole lot needs to be pulled out again because we have decided to get gas installed in our house.  But numpty here thought it was an easy peasy lemon squeezy job to do and I wouldn't have to rearrange or move anything in our home.  Boy was I wrong.  Because our house is a golden oldie, all the piping and radiators are as old as the hills, so all the radiators are coming off and being replaced.  But instead of the new radiators going back where the old ones where, the new ones are being placed on different walls in all of the rooms.  So not only do the guys need to get at the old radiator in my craft room, they need to get at the replacement radiators new home .........which means I need to move a lot of the furniture out of the room.....AGAIN.  Well, when I say me....I mean poor Scrubby Loops, teehee.  However, all this work won't start until some time next month or possibly September as the actual Gas line hasn't been hooked up to our house yet......so we kinda have to wait for that to be done first.

Anywhoodles I was fishing around my photos and came across my very first Altered Art Project.....MY VERY FIRST ONE.  I don't know how I managed not to show this to you, as its on my craft room wall so I see it all the bloomin' time.  But anyway, here it is.....my first ever altered project from 2010.  Go easy on me folks.....it was my first altered project attempt, lol, so its by no means perfect.

This isn't the actual one, but its pretty much the same.  I bought mine from Argos I think.  It's made from bamboo and it opens up surprisingly wide.

Taa-daa....this is how it turned out.  I painted it a light blue colour then used my distress ink to grunge it up a bit and used a script stamp to add some messy text over it.  The paper is actually from a Wallpaper sample I had from B&Q.

And here it is with some goodies in it.  The long sides are used to store junk jewellery.  I simply hammered in some tiny tacking nails at different heights and the jewellery hangs from those.

So there you have it.  I am thinking of re-altering it again though now that my room has been redesigned.....and will most likely be redesigned again after the builders leave my home, lol.  I think I want to add little shelves into the long panels which will make better use of the space and I can actually store items in that space.  What do you think?  If I re-alter it, you will be the first to know, I promise.

That's it from me folks.

Toodles Noodles.......Loops xx

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