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How To Cover Up An Ugly Corkboard

August 26th, 2009

Corkboards get so gosh darn ugly! Once you poked all the holes in them, and the cork starts coming apart etc… not cool. Anyway, they ARE really quite handy- so I covered one of mine up with some cheap material from IKEA! SO easy. You should have a go!

Step 1. Take your fugly corkboard, and buy some funky fabric!

Step 1

Step 2: Measure out your fabric so that it’s about 2-3 inches wider on each side. Position your corkboard on top, in the middle.

Step 2

Step 3: Get a hot glue gun ready (heated) with some extra glue sticks.

Step 3

Step 4: Run the glue gun along the short side of the corkboard, on the wood. If you feel like the glue is drying before you’re done (this happened with mine cause my glue gun is old and not heating as hot as it use too), then do about 5cm at a time.

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Step 5: Once you’ve done the short side STRETCH the fabric so that it’s pulled tight, and glue on the other short side. Turn in the corners, like you can see in the picture above (step 4), and add a bit more glue to those.

Step 5

Step 6: Make sure that everything is glued on well, turn it over, and hey presto! A cute looking cork board!

Step 6

You could make these to hang on the wall just as a decoration as well. OR you could just put one photo in the middle to ‘frame’ it, or make a bit of a collage that can be displayed. Lots of options- GREAT for making the craft/kids/study room/s a bit more bright and interesting!

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Tags: corkboard, howto, ikea, material, Project, renovate

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How to make a Felt Phone Cover

June 6th, 2009

The other day I made a few prototype phone covers for my iPhone. I’m also making one for my friend Rachel’s Samsung (I THINK it’s a samsung! All that really matters is that it’s 5 1/2 x 10 1/2 cm…!) soon. It was SO easy to make. It’s excellent for your phone because the felt is beautiful and soft- so it keeps those screens clean, and scratch free, it’s pretty, personalised, and a bit different!

I chose to embroider free-hand. It's easier on felt them trying to draw, and copy.

Choose something meaningful to you. I'm Sunshinetalia, so I chose to put the sun on it!

Your phone should fit in snuggly- no looseness, or it might fall out.

I’ve made up a project sheet, which you can download here.

I also have an etsy shop, it’s new (well, I made it a while ago- Dec 06 to be exact, but have only just gotten round to putting things in it!), and the only thing you can buy in it is this! But please specify what patterns you want on the front and back so I can make it how you want!