As most of you know, my office has relocated and I have a new cubicle that needed a feminine touch.  :)
See OFFICE CUBICLE MAKEOVER HERE.

For my cubicle makeover, I custom fit/made some RIBBON BOARDS to go on one of the cubicle walls.One of my co-workers, Meredith, liked them so much that she made some too!  Here are hers in action!!  Love the “garden theme”.  Great job Meredith!! Thanks for sharing your cubicle with us!

I was going to come up with my own design of a charging station and make it out of fabric covered foam board….BUT….when I got to Walgreens to purchase the foam board I was kind of surprised that it was $5.00/sheet.  So, I put it back and went to the photo dept to pick up some pictures I was having developed.  Which led me right by this charging station.  It had a clearance price tag of $7.50.  I thought that was a great deal, considering the foam board alone was going to cost me $5!

• So, I took this baby home and sprayed it black.  I’ve been using Rust-Oleum Painter’s Touch (Ultra Cover 2x coverage) for the things in my office cubicle.  FLAT BLACK.
• I ironed on a piece of Pellon Fusible Interfacing onto my new fabric to keep from fraying.
• I used the original “felt” pieces that were already glued to the charging station as my template.  Laid them over my fabric, traced them, and cut them out.
• Then, I used my trusty Fray Check to insure that it won’t fray around the edges.
• Spray glued the fabric pieces in place.
• Then, for a splash of red, I cut out this little design on my cricut and glued it to the front.  Not sure if the design is too busy for all that fabric?  What do you think?  Should I trade it out for a fluer de lis?

Well this little beauty goes along with the rest of my office cubicle found here.

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Thanks for looking!

Okay, you’ve heard me talk about having to move to a new office. It’s super far away from my home and I’m stomping my feet the whole way. I figured if it was pretty, I might actually want to go. We’ll see. I have one more week before I call it home. Here is the unveiling…although by now you’ve learned that it’s never enough, there will always be more.
Here are links to all of the things so far:
Chalk Ink Board

Ribbon Boards

Chalk Ink Board~Updated

File Cabinet Door Frames
(I forgot to take a good picture of these on the actual filing cabinet, but got a close-up of the red ones.  Same concept)

Mouse Pad

Office Chair

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Can you believe that I picked up this chair at a rummage sale for $5.00!?!?  Crazy!  It has so many levers on it, I don’t think I’ll be able to use them all!  I only have this before picture.  I snapped it while making the slipcover.  Was going to get a picture of the chair for the BEFORE picture, but forgot while I was sewing.  Oh well, you get the idea of what an awesome find this is!!!

I pinned the fabric to the chair right sides in. That gave me my template. I just sewed along where the pins were. I needed to throw in some red, so I made this huge bow out of fabric. I slipped the cover on and took a needle and thread and did sort of a blanket stitch along the bottom.

For the seat, I did a typical reupholstering job. I’ll have to take pix of the underneath, as it came out perfect. I took out the staples of the liner. Then, I just stapled on the new fabric over the old fabric. After that, I re-stapled the liner back on. I love it! Hubby said, “you shouldn’t cover that chair, it doesn’t look like an office chair anymore, it looks like furniture” “Thank you!”

I apologize for being missing in action lately. With the holidays and stuff, I’m a little behind on my posts. But I’ve been getting a lot done for my Office Cubicle Make-over!! Here is a MOUSE PAD that I made pretty.

See, it used to be plain black. It was old and dirty. After cleaning it a little with a baby wipe, I let it dry.

Then, I sprayed it with my trusty Elmer’s Craft Bond Spray Adhesive.


After letting it sit for a few minutes, I laid the fabric over it, and pressed down evenly.

Then I used my straight edge and rotary cutter to cut along the edges.

I went around the edges with Fray Check so that it doesn’t fray after using it.

Tada! A coordinating mouse pad!

Thanks for looking!

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My file cabinets are very organized.  But some of them do not just have files in them.  However, I thought it would be cute to make these little frames for each of the drawers in my cabinet.  I think I might make another set for the other cabinet that say “stuff” and “things” instead of the letters.  What do you think? Thanks for looking!

1. Purchased the frames from the 99 cent store.
2. Painted them black.  (They were like a bronze color??)
3. Put the glass back in and added a piece of red fabric.
4. Used my cricut to cut out the off-white “frame”.
5. Used my cricut to cut out the black letters.
6. Used a glue stick to adhere the letters and frame to the fabric.
7. Added a strip of magnet tape to the backs so they will “stick” to the file cabinet drawers.

Below is a picture of them getting their black matt finish.

Here is the link to the Chalk Ink Board that I made a couple of days ago.

I added a piece of red material behind the original Fleur De Lis.  I also moved it over to the bottom RIGHT so that I could line up my check-list.  :D

As I’ve mentioned before, my office is moving.  I made these 2 Ribbon Boards to go in my new cubical.  They will take up one wall, above my desk, and below my cubbies.  They should be an exact fit.  We shall see.  This is how I made them.

1.  I cut 2 pieces of carboard out in the size that I needed.  I chose cardboard instead of bulletin board because I need them to squeeze behind the desk a tad and behind the cubbies.  I wanted it to have a custom look to it.

2.  Then I sprayed them with Spray Glue.  Attached batting and cut the batting to the size of the cardboard.

3.  Spray the batting with spray glue and lay that on the fabric.  Cut the fabric a little bit larger than the cardboard.  Fold ends over and hot glue.

4.  I added ribbon by hot gluing the ends to the backside.  Then, I used covered buttons and sewed them on using embroidery floss and pulling through the back.  I didn’t want the cardboard to rip, so I tide my knot around a paper clip.  I looked all over for large BRADS, but could not find them.  :(  This worked great though!

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I’m getting ready to decorate my new cubicle.  My office is moving and we all got new cubicles. These are “single” cubicles.  Can’t believe I’m excited about that considering that any job I’ve had since graduating college I’ve had my own office.  Oh well.  Not happy about the long commute, but trying to make the best of it.  I will post before and after shots of my cubicle.  For now, I’m going to show you my “dry erase board”.  I’m going with an off-white and black theme.  Throwing in some Fleur De Lis here and there.  I can’t decide what color to use as an accent color.  Leaning towards a red or apple green.

Remember that old picture that I picked up for $1.00 at the yard sale a couple of weeks ago?  Well, I….

• Painted the frame black
• Covered the cardboard insert with black duck fabric
• Covered that with a layer of black burlap
• Added a fleur de lis that I cut out of my main fabric
• Purchased CHALK INK (love this find)
• Going to glue cubical clip/pins to the back to hang in my cube!

I know you’re going to ask, so I’ll tell you that I found my set of chalk ink markers at Michael’s for around $11.  I used a 40% off coupon and got them for around $5 for a set of 4.  I purchased the “Earthy Set”. Hope this helps.  :D

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