On my way........

Good morning everybody
Hopefully this will appear as by magic here while I am winding my way down country lanes to The Craft Barn for the Crafty Individuals minifest!
One of the things I've made is a Desk Tidy and this is what I thought I'd share with you today. I didn't plan on creating it; it evolved as all good things do.
I started off by creating this little scene.

I started with an empty wooden embellishment container (Can't even remember what was originally in it) Painted it in Fresco paint and using images from Nature's beauty of trees at the back with crackle glaze and ink. I stamped the trees onto frosted shrink plastic cut out and reduced in size to create the dimensional scenes in each space. I was pretty pleased with it but wondered how I could display it? Perhaps a wall hanging of some sort...... Then my eyes fell upon some wooden baskets that I had bought from The Barn a while ago. so I added this little bit to the left hand side.

Perfect, now I have somewhere for brushes and pens I use a lot.......... But it is rather unbalanced isn't it? so I was just about to add something to the right when I spied with my little eye.... another shallow tray. Hmmmmmmm thinks I; and with a judicious bit of knife wielding expertise I came up with this.......

Another basket for more brushes tools etc. I added a little post it note pad to the front (which I must say I thought was a brill idea as I always NEEEEEED paper for quick little notes) and a nice tray at the bottom for some brads etc.
So, in all it's glory here is a desk tidy al a Neil......

I like it very much and it all came about by just playing around.... so off you go and play! Be blessed and perhaps I'll see you at The Craft Barn later?
Oh, and there is one basket left so it may well "grow" a bit more......