New Sewing room and a dogs breakfast

The new sewing room, I posted a pic on Bookface last night and had a few questions so here goes: the tree is painted on the wall, done by drawing a tree and using an overhead projector to embiggen it-then painted. The chart reads "Do not panic it's often worse" and I made it and blogged it a few decades ago.See the three tubs on the table - that is the three projects I am working on at the one time this holidays (or not as the case may be) . I am a firm believer in buying containers in an effort to get organised, I think it is people like me that keep places like IKEA in business...the lure of that perfect container. The blue drawers used to live under the table but then I had sit weird 'cause of the knee lifty thingo so now they are next to me. Top drawer has a cutlery tray in it for all the scissors, rotary cutters etc. (genius idea I have to say -pity the cheapest way to buy one was with a complete unwanted set of ugly cutlery)
This shelving unit used to be Connors chest of drawers when he was little. Now he uses a floordrobe for all his clothes so a coat of paint (Dulux Shampoo) and it now houses batting, wool scraps, wool felt, garment fabric and linen. The little shelves on top used to live on my sewing table, but I am trying to keep the table a little clearer. I will no doubt end up filling these with crap. The basket on the floor is the scrap basket - pieces too small to make toys from. The pile on top I have a plan for.

more shelves, boxes containing zips, bias binding, ummmm, other important stuff. The card basket is full of buttons as is the willow tin on the bottom. The coat hangers need to be put on the wall. One of my favourite things is the 1950's Bakelite cake stand - just love it. (in fact I love it so much I have another one in the next photo.

That's the stash, shockingly small isn't it ? The spotty trolley I covered eons ago and it holds a 1kg bag of stuffing. There would be at least 4 or 5 more bags hidden in other places in the house. I often take this trolley to craft shows, perfect for putting all the shopping in.
Toys on top, either gifted, traded or purchased from other bloggers.
Wee things, lots from bloggers and few purchases bits...very old skipping elephants that was my mums when she was a kid.

I think that's about it for now. I want to paint or put new knobs on the drawers and put some more stuff on the walls.

I want to make a rag rug ?

and was surprised to see how many other people were keen as well. So I say we do it together .

We'll have a rag-a-long. You can braid, stitch crochet, or glue your rug together. I'll set up a flickr group - we'll ignore the rules and just bumble through (Actually I am far too anal for that, I'll work on a kind of vague -lets cut this week type guideline).

There will be no penalties if you go faster or slower, in fact I might just scrounge up some prizes and stuff. Would you like to join in ?

I'll be using the Moda bakeshop tutorial to make mine but you can make any kind you like.

Check out here and here for some inspiration.

Leave a comment if your keen, or of course comment anyway....if we get a few people I'll make a blog list and beg a clever person to make us an offical looking button.

I'm excited !