How Do I Sort My Fabric? Apparently In The Middle of Everything Else

Frustration — Instead of working on my studio re-org unencumbered, I now have two projects that need doing Right Now, right in the middle of the re-org.  Right in the middle of stuff being all over the work-tables while the shelves are being sorted.  Right in the middle of Chaos.

I’m trying to think of the projects as being Fun, rather than Frustration.

Project One is to create a figure from recycled materials.  For delivery Monday a week.  And I have to include something textile.  And it will be seen in public and I’m having the big I’m-going-to-be-so-embarassed clutching feeling, unlike the confidence I felt about my NICHES show pieces, the Death Mask for an Owl and Burning Bush in Walnut Wood because this is more outside my expertise.

Materials so far:  from Goodwill — a standing CD rack, tire cables, napkin holder.  From my garage/basement — part of a wine cooler, styrofoam blocks, spray paint.  From my studio — fabric, ribbon, and just a touch of panic.

 

Transforming CD Holders

CD tower

We are fuddie-duddies.  We don’t know anything about MP3 players.  We have LPs and 45s.  We have approximately 89,590 CDs.  So many of them have no home.  But I did a neat fix for at least some of them.  I took two CD towers — you’ve seen ones like them, I’m sure — that were tottering on the carpeting.

I unscrewed the bases and pulled the knobs off the top.  I measured the width of the short panelled wall behind the poolroom CD player and hacksawed the ends of the metal towers to that length.  I went to the trusty Ace Hardware http://www.acehardware.com/home/index.jsp , metal tower in hand, and found a mirror bracket that would work to hold it to the wall.  I bought a dozen of them.

With a friend I measured, levelled, drilled and screwed and got the towers wall-mounted, horizontally!!

mirror brackets holding CD rack

I replaced the knobs on what were now the front “corners” of the racks, and I think they look pretty swell under the vintage sunburst clock!

Transformed CD racks under vintage sunburst clock