Getting Organised

I used to think my craft desk looked cool, but I suddenly realised that it just looked plain messy. I had little cane baskets for all my pencils, paint brushes, lino tools, etc, and while it is useful to have everything at arm's reach it just doesn't look very nice and neat. So while at Ikea with my mum, her friend Kristina and little miss Z I was eying off a a little set of stationery drawers for my desk. Since my mum is the bestest mum in the whole wide world she decided to spoil me and buy them for me - thanks mum!

So the next day I decided to tackle the assembly of my little stationery station. I got all the bits out and made sure everything was there first...


So far so good - I was a happy little Ikea lover...


Look don't the pieces look pretty all stacked up together...


So it was all fun and games up until I tried assembling the thing. I might have said a few choice words that shall never be repeated again. I may have thrown some pieces around the room. I might of cried. It might of taken me four breaks from the thing to calm down. I may have bent a few nails...


Lets just say that the happy Ikea gal quickly turned into an angry and frustrated Ikea gal..


But I got there in the end...


And now my stationery is so nice and neat...


I even have a little drawer for my collection of scissors...


And doesn't the cotton look pretty...


So it was worth it in the end, but next time I will wait until Mat gets home and he can handle the assembly.

Alicia + hammer = Disaster.