Mince Pies and Hacks

As our Flaming June has nearly gone and our default setting of uniform grey skies leads us into July I'm starting to think about Christmas...! Nah, I jest. Though Sainsburys has just announced a new chocolate mince pie for the coming season, so actually I've been thinking about cake.

More importantly, I've been fitting out my studio and thinking about what I need to make it fit for purpose. Here's a few hacks I came up with to make life a little easier and cheaper.

The space is enough for my creative needs, but  it did require an area for storing large canvases. There were many suggestions on the net for storage and a few expensive shop- bought solutions. In the end I repainted some old shelves from the garage, and cut wooden doweling to length to divide and support the canvasses at the top. The result is sturdy enough and looks neat in the corner.

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My second 'hack' was a picture rail. Again lots of purpose made items to be found, but all a tad expensive and I didn't fancy a permanent wooden picture rail around the top of the studio. The solution was staring me in the face in our upstairs bathroom - an extendable shower curtain rail. Three hooks on the wall and there it sits, allowing me to hang multiple paintings using picture rail hangers from Wilkos. If I don't want a display up, I can just remove and store the rail and use the hooks for something else, such as hanging a cloth as a splashback.

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Now where's that application for Dragon's Den....?!