A little pencil pot

I love upcycling as anyone who follows this blog will know. This pencil pot was made from two empty parcel tape reels stacked and glue together. It is surprisingly sturdy.

Decorated of course with Tonic Studios papers and dies.

The pencils are wrapped with Tonic's paper too. Wrapping pencils with thicker paper is a bit fiddly, but it makes a nice gift item to coordinate your pencils with the pot, so it is worth the effort.

Stay warm...it's rather chilly out there!

Doda
x

Vintage Leather

I finished this chair yesterday after I finally found the piece of leather I'd been looking for (while looking for something else of course). The cushion is one I made a long time ago. It is crazy patchwork and incorporates some hand drawn butterflies. It is trimmed with my favourite red pom poms. I love pom pom trim! Sad, but true!

Here it the chair in it's before state. 

It was another one of my £1 auction bargains.  I think it looks quite "gentleman's study" now. I love the look of the vintage leather, and I only bent a few of the brass upholstery nails in the process! 

I had a little scrap of leather left over, so I upcycled an evaporated milk tin and made a nice pen pot to go with the desk mat and the chair.

I cut the leather to size and then ran it through my "ready for a service" sewing machine before glueing it onto the tin. It's an easy make but looks quite classy. If you have any scraps of old leather, this would make a nice gift for the man in your life.