Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Hi-Fi Cabinet

My new Hi-Fi Cabinet
I was lucky enough to be the recipient of this beautiful birthday gift on Saturday. I love it! Not least because it reminds me of my old sideboard which, though slightly later in style, had similar tambour doors. It's an old TV cabinet, but I'm using it to house my CD player, Amp and Turntable.

Fortunately there is no back to this little cabinet, which means that I won't make the same disastrous mistake I made with my sideboard when I decided to drill a hole through the back of it to take my amp cable, and realised too late that the tambour doors slid round to the back when they were open and I'd just drilled through one of the doors of my favourite piece of furniture.

When I moved to London I had to find a new home for it as there was no way I was going to have room for a 6 foot piece of solid wood furniture, but if I ever move to a bigger house it's one of the top things on my shopping list. In the mean-time this is the perfect size for the house we are in now.

My turntable has a new home
I've not been getting on very fast with my knitting this last couple of weeks, but I did finally get round to framing one of my needlepoint pictures so that I could give it to my Mum for her birthday.

 
Hands Needlepoint

While I was at it I took better photos of my Red Cells Needlepoint. Looking at them both made me want to do some more. A project for later in the year maybe.

Red Cells Needlepoint

Sunday, February 05, 2012