ANOTHER TIDY UP - MY WORKROOM

After last weeks tidy up at Most Marvellous I decided to set to and tidy up my office workroom.  I share this space with hubby - well he shares it with me he has a tiny space for his computer and I have the rest of the room.....  He will tell you I often spill out into his few inches as well which drives him to distraction.

When we moved the rooms around last year our spare bedrom became the office and we moved the the spare room into what had been our office I managed to pickup a set of pidgeon hole thingies (not sure what they are called) which had come out of a school and these are invaluable for storing some of my bits and bobs on.

The Shelves were rescued from a skip at work - I was caught by my manager skip dipping for these but it was worth the comments as they are just so handy and I store my magazines and rolls of off cuts of materials in them.

The desk was bought for my grandson from the Vintage Jumble to sit at in the office when he comes over  but I have to admit that he really does not get a look in with yet another collection of my childrens school samplers, old typewriter complete with typewriter ribbon tin and postcards and ATC's made for me by friends

Finally I have my boxes full of papers, ephemera and general junk, I won't show you my computer desk as yes you have guessed it I have spread over into hubbies side and it is still a mess....

Talking about the Vintage Jumble I will be there on the 20th July at St Matthews in Northampton  with lots of sellers, I think there are going to be some outside stalls there this year as well so head on over and grab yourself a bargain or two or maybe even three or four.....

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST

As June is now over and the slow period is on us for retail I decided that I would give my booth a move about and display some items in little settings in the hope that someone would go "oh I could do with that in my home" and walk away with an armful of my treasures.


 I found this wonderful Edwardian nursing chair at auction and just had to bid on it.

The colour purple just zings and it stands out beautifully and I used some of my pieces with purple in them to display on the chair.

A great chair to curl up with a good book on.

I tidied up all the shelves and restocked.

 

Sorted out the clothes 

Tidied up the jewellery and ephemera and generally titivated it all up

It was not easy as anyone who know me knows that being a Virgo I have to have everything in its place and where at all possible everything matching.   When you only have a small space this is not easy to achieve and at one time I was virtually hyperventilating trying to get it right.  I have to say a big thank you to Alex at Most Marvellous for working alongside me, plying me with coffee and sending me outside in order to breath when I stressed out.  Your right Alex no-one but me will notice that the purple is slightly off on the mauve or that the green does not quite match with the yellow...... Being a perfectionist sucks or maybe it is just my OCD showing.