Marit's Paper World (blog)

Marit's Paper World (blog)

  • Home
  • Top 2000 blog party
  • Quirky Dutch Summer
  • Website

What’s on my work desk? (#476)

July 18, 2018 By Marit 13 Comments

Goodmorning lovely ones and THANK YOU for all the compliments you left on my last blog post about the altered jacket. I just saw I inspired Jan (Lunch Lady Jan) and she’s diving into the Sashiko embroidery techniques too… you go girl!!!

I put aside the jeans jacket I plan to Sashiko-embroider-alter to start a ‘small project’ in between and you can see it on my desk today. Here’s the photo of my desk first…

WOYWW #476

“A crocheted box?”

Let me explain: the handyman came last week and boy ‘did he handy’…. he secured the closet to the wall in my atelier, hung the whiteboard (I’ll give you the grand tour of my finished atelier in another blogpost), he put shelves up in the storage/washing room, hung the blinds in front of the window and hung all the lamps… yay!!! Oh, and he hung a shelf to the wall in the bathroom to store the toilet rolls stock… and that’s where my crochet project comes in. Putting a big stack of toilet rolls packed in plastic on that shelf looks hideous! So I went into town to buy a nice box to store the rolls. Did I tell you I’m no good at measuring things? Well, I’m not good at that… It happened before and it happened again… I got the size of the shelf/box all wrong and the box I bought was waaaay too big to go on that shelf.

I made a new plan: I bought lovely blue cotton thread and crocheted a ‘basket’ that I will stiff with glue (I looked it up on the internet and I hope it will work!) The gessoed cardboard will be painted blue and goes on the bottom. I will try to remember to take pics for you and show you next time how it works out (keep your fingers crossed!)

Despite all those ‘extra projects and house stuff’, I keep the Chronicles Art Journal going. Here’s two spreads for you that I created in the weeks I was working on my son’s jacket and these pages were highly influenced by that.

The Chronicles of Marit 2018 – Week 24

I discovered ‘Sashiko’ and ordered fabric and yarn to work with in week 24, so this spread got a Japanese feel to it.

The Chronicles of Marit 2018 – Week 25

“Fashion says: me too. Style says: me only”

Thanks for stopping by today… if you live in a place where it is as warm as it is here: stay cool!
And if you’re not in such a place… stay cool anyway!

Filed Under: Art Journals, Chronicles '18, Studio, woyww Tagged With: art, art journaling, artist studio, atelier, chronicles, woyww#476

Comments

  1. Shaz says

    July 18, 2018 at 11:47 am

    Hi Marit, that storage box you are making sounds very interesting, will be cool to see when it’s finished. Have a lovely week, Hugs, Shaz #4 XxXx

    Reply
  2. Sarah Brennan says

    July 18, 2018 at 11:59 am

    Hi Marit, I see you’ve got Jan all fired up to try some of that embroidery. I don’t see why stiffening the crochet won’t work. My mum makes snow flake Christmas decorations in the same way. Great journal layouts as always. Have a good week. Sarah #16

    Reply
  3. jan Spencer says

    July 18, 2018 at 1:15 pm

    Hi Marit, I’m looking forward to seeing your box finished, it sounds very interesting using crochet. I’m hopefless at measurements too, bought a bowl last week that was too big for the sink, ha,ha,
    Have a great week
    Jan x

    Reply
  4. LLJ says

    July 18, 2018 at 3:44 pm

    I hope you don’t mind that I’m copying you but my attempt won’t be anything as wonderful as your jacket!! I’m completely in love with Sashiko so a huge thank you for pointing me in the right direction. The crochet box sounds a great idea, you’ll have to show us how it turns out!
    Hugs LLJ 8 xxx

    Reply
    • Marit says

      July 18, 2018 at 4:55 pm

      I don’t mind at all Jan, I am honered and enthusiastic that I could inspire you to dive into Sashiko and altered clothing too! I can’t wait to see your results, have fun with all the stitching!

      Reply
  5. helen says

    July 18, 2018 at 6:31 pm

    your handy man sounds VERY handy!! good to see your journal still going strong. Helen #1

    Reply
  6. caro says

    July 18, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    I look forward to seeing the finished box and I love the way you dry your gesso card! Thanks for sharing. Caro x (#31)

    Reply
  7. Diana Taylor says

    July 18, 2018 at 8:01 pm

    Love your Japanese themed pages, and your crochet basket sounds like a very good idea – it should be easy to make, you can do the same by draping a crochet mat over an upturned bowl and gluing it, it then dries in a bowl shape and looks great. Have fun and I look forward to seeing your finished project.
    Diana x #17

    Reply
  8. Angela says

    July 18, 2018 at 8:04 pm

    Hi Marit, I’ve done something like your crocheted box before and used starch to stiffen it. Loving your journal spreads, very Marit style I think. Have a lovely creative week and a happy woyww, Angela x11x

    Reply
  9. Neet Hickson says

    July 18, 2018 at 9:13 pm

    I got it wrong, I thought it was the actual jeans you were stitching not a jacket – think it would be super cool to do both.
    Not a clue what the crochet bag is going to look like so I await eagerly the picture of it, good luck, hope it all works for you.
    Great desk and even greater Chronicles, especially the Japanese one – love that kind of thing.
    Hugs until next week, Neet 5 xx

    Reply
  10. Tracey says

    July 19, 2018 at 5:19 am

    I’m so jealous of your handyman Marit, my Hubby was the handiest of men and could turn his hand to anything but now due to ill health he’s unable to do those things anymore so I have to try and do most things myself..
    Looking forward to seeing your new creation, your chronicle journal pages are marvellous. Thank you for sharing WOYWW..
    Creative Hugs Tracey #7

    Reply
  11. karen says

    July 25, 2018 at 12:32 pm

    I look forward to seeing the finished box, how clever. Karen #23

    Reply
  12. Stacy says

    July 25, 2018 at 3:43 pm

    Hi Marit I had to grin over buying the wrong size box to store things in, that is totally something I would do. sounds like your handy man was worth every penny you spent on him too. and the new storage box sounds like it will be perfect 🙂 ~Stacy #30

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

FacebookInstagramE-mailRSS Feed

My art can be found in galleries on my website.
Unless otherwise stated, all photos, images, thoughts and stories on the website as well as on this blog are my own (Marit Barentsen aka Marit's Paper World.) If you see something you want to share, please link back to my site to give credit where credit is due. If you have questions about using my work, please contact me. Thank you!

kronieken 2023-workshop

 

“KRONIEKEN”
de grote, online art journal
workshop in het NEDERLANDS
December 2022 – December 2023


klik voor info en inschrijven

Categories

Archives

Old blog

To my old blog: nov. 2008 - dec. 2010

Copyright © 2023 · Marit's Paper World ·