Music Shelf

This is an old shelf I had lying around and no longer needed.  My sister in law & I are working on redecorating her room.  It will be a musical themed room.  I can’t wait to share the finished room.  This was the first step.  She painted a cream base coat then we ripped up musical paper and Mod Podged it on their.  She did an awesome job and it looks so beautiful in her room.

Pardon my dust!

Not the prettiest picture but wanted to share it with you.  If you ask me, that looks like a clear sign of production.  I am currently getting ready for a show this weekend and have been so busy.  This little mess is only part of it.  I started feeling some creativity blockage and decided to clean up.  Doing a quick clean up can sometimes help get my creative juices flowing.  How about you?  What helps you get your creative juices going?

xoxo

Renee

Are you a paper piler?

 

I am currently working on a command center project that is going to be located in our laundry room.  This is our in and out hot spot.  This hanging fabric filer was fun to make and will solve some paper piling issues for us.  I like to keep all receipts but they would end up in drawers, my purse, basically everywhere.  As for mail, I had a spot on the bookshelf that was to easy for me to forget about.  Homework is a big one in this house.  Having 4 kids means lots of homework.  The kids used to try and hand me papers to sign, newsletters, and have me look over homework during dinner prep.  They now just set it onto the laptop for me to go over.  Recently a few school papers got mixed in with sales ads.  Now they will have a specific spot to set it in.  I am confident that this project was a perfect solution for us.

Here are some tutorial photos:

 

Cut 2 base fabrics and iron on interfacing to one.  Mine were 16”x26”

After peeling back the interfacing, I put face sides of 2 base fabrics together, sewing around the edges leaving enough space to invert.  Once inverted, I tucked in the opening and pressed, adhering the fabrics together.

I did the same with the file area.  The large pockets were 12.5”x8”.  The small one was 12.5”x4”

I cut strips and ironed them in half, creating what will be an expandable file.

Once all of your pockets are stitched, pin them in place.

I stitched all pockets in place and went around the edge with a satin stitch.

I added grommets and labels.  I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what they are to be used for.  Once done it measured out to be 15.5” x 24.5”.