Every Friday I attend a ‘Creative Carers’ group. It’s a chance for me to spend time with others in a similar situations (i.e. we are all carers for a loved one) and to be creative in some form.

A few weeks ago we attempted to decorate some small chests of drawers (14.5 x 16 x 7cm). I painted mine with primary colours but I messed it up by applying too much paint and at the end of the session I couldn’t even get the drawers back into the cabinet! At the end of each session we have to take whatever we have worked on back home because all the available cupboard space in the Carer’s centre is full of art supplies and there is no room for our finished, or incomplete projects. Usually I throw out my attempts when I get home. I really enjoy the company of the other people there and I enjoy trying all the different things we do, but I rarely produce anything I would want to keep.

So I took my set of small drawers home but before I threw them out I decided to at least get the drawers to fit. I sanded everything down and then waxed the inside of the box until the drawers slid into place.

I still wasn’t that happy with the finished result so I decided to draw a mandala design on the front and onto the top and side and then colour it in with lots of bright colours using my Posca paint pens and some gel glitter pens. When it was finished I was quite pleased with it so I gave it a coat of matt varnish.

I’m going to give it to a friend 🙂

That’s all for now folks, Big Love from AJ