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I have lots of weaknesses, and this project represents a few of them, including IKEA, stuff you can put together yourself, fancy stationery stores, children's alphabets with quirky pictures, and découpage.
While with a friend at Oblation, I bought a piece of paper. They called it wrapping paper, but since it cost like $4—for a single sheet of über-fancy wrapping paper— and I'm more likely to use a gift bag that you can then reuse, there was no way I was going to wrap a present in it. Anyway, the paper was maybe 14" by 24" or so, printed in squashed squares with the letters of the alphabet and little pictures to illustrate them. I thought about framing it and hanging it somewhere so I could remember the words for "nest" and "holly" and so on. Entropy set in, and I taped it to the wall and piled things in front of it and it was as good as invisible.
However, all it took to make myself a place to store thread and needles and other sewing supplies was 1) IKEA finally coming to PDX! 2) getting over the fear of cutting into the nice paper and 3) figuring out that I wasn't going to be able to use the whole squares on the drawer fronts because they were just a little too small. Instead, I cut out the pictures that were the best size for each drawer and used Mod Podge to affix them, and swiped some over the top, too. The larger pictures I put on the sides of the FIRA box.
I was a little worried because the Mod Podge was causing the paper to buckle, so as soon as it was dry enough I put the drawer fronts under a few books. They weren't quite flat yet, and I was worried about peeling, so I took them outside and gave the whole thing spray with some clear glossy spray varnish, and when that was dry I pressed the whole thing again. After that, it was nice and flat. Here's the finished product.
Lessons learned: in future, I might forgo the Mod Podge and just use some spray adhesive and then spray varnish on top. Also, I found it really hard to nail the drawers together with the nails they give you. After doing six of the drawers and bending most of the nails, I tried using wood glue instead, which worked great, even without nails. Next time I think I'll just use wood glue and nail only if I need to.
While with a friend at Oblation, I bought a piece of paper. They called it wrapping paper, but since it cost like $4—for a single sheet of über-fancy wrapping paper— and I'm more likely to use a gift bag that you can then reuse, there was no way I was going to wrap a present in it. Anyway, the paper was maybe 14" by 24" or so, printed in squashed squares with the letters of the alphabet and little pictures to illustrate them. I thought about framing it and hanging it somewhere so I could remember the words for "nest" and "holly" and so on. Entropy set in, and I taped it to the wall and piled things in front of it and it was as good as invisible.
However, all it took to make myself a place to store thread and needles and other sewing supplies was 1) IKEA finally coming to PDX! 2) getting over the fear of cutting into the nice paper and 3) figuring out that I wasn't going to be able to use the whole squares on the drawer fronts because they were just a little too small. Instead, I cut out the pictures that were the best size for each drawer and used Mod Podge to affix them, and swiped some over the top, too. The larger pictures I put on the sides of the FIRA box.
I was a little worried because the Mod Podge was causing the paper to buckle, so as soon as it was dry enough I put the drawer fronts under a few books. They weren't quite flat yet, and I was worried about peeling, so I took them outside and gave the whole thing spray with some clear glossy spray varnish, and when that was dry I pressed the whole thing again. After that, it was nice and flat. Here's the finished product.
Lessons learned: in future, I might forgo the Mod Podge and just use some spray adhesive and then spray varnish on top. Also, I found it really hard to nail the drawers together with the nails they give you. After doing six of the drawers and bending most of the nails, I tried using wood glue instead, which worked great, even without nails. Next time I think I'll just use wood glue and nail only if I need to.
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