Designers Craft Connection Blog Hop – May

Welcome to the Designers Craft Connection Blog Hop. This month's theme was either Jewelry or Flowers. I had an idea combining the two but ran into a bit of a time crunch at the last minute with some additional freelance work. So I moved on to plan B which is technically my plan A since I have been meaning to do this project for some time.

I have been slowly decorating my work area in the office. It is a typical "cubicle" with dull gray fabric partitions and boring office supplies. My first project was purchasing a painter's dropcloth from the hardware store to cover the dull gray fabric walls. I bought the lightest weight dropcloth, 8oz. and 4 ft x 15 ft worked for the size that I needed.

I trimmed the dropcloth and hemmed the edges. I didn't want to attach the material permanently to the cubicle walls so I used the odd clips that they supply to hold things to these walls. But these clips looked horrible so this is where my Flower project came in.

If I have to use the clips to hold up the dropcloth walls then at least I can make them look interesting. I began by cutting some of the leftover dropcloth into 1 1/2" x 48" strips.

To make the rosettes, begin by folding a strip in half lengthwise and start tightly rolling until you have a center about the size of your fingernail. Apply a drop of hot glue to the side to hold in place. Continue rolling while twisting the fabric strip often to create "petals". Add hot glue to hold in place. This is not an exact art form so the goal is to keep it from unraveling but it does not need to be perfect.

I finished off my flowers by adding thrifted millinery leaves and gluing it on top of the clips.

I will post more office photos as I complete more thrifted and vintage decorating projects. You can see my first office decorating project here. This is what started me thinking about completely redecorating my cubicle.

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