Monday, August 16, 2010

Octagonal Christmas Advent......

Now this took a bit of planning LOL....in fact it took me 3 days, on and off, to work out the angles for this piece but I managed it in the end.  I guess my engineering background helped a bit with this ha ha!!

There are 24 little drawers in 3 banks of 8 for a daily gift and the top lifts off to reveal a place for the final prezzie on the big day.

I also cut little chippie sleighs, snowflakes, stars, trees, gifts and holly sprigs to put on each drawer.  I will be doing a tut for this asap to explain all the details but it's design means it's really easy to put together.  More info will be on the Tando blog tomorrow.

I've had so much fun making this....I think I may be making more!! 

8 comments:

Karen said...

OMG OMG OMG di...this is FABULOUS!!!!!!! What a gorgeous shape & those little drawers are soooo cute!!!! I NEED one!!!!

Oh...did I say I liked it??? Hugs for a clever girly XXX

Hazel said...

Wow!! That is mega cool - what a lot of work has gone into that - it is fab-u-lous x

Traceyr said...

Oh my word! Di you have excelled yourself my lovely this is brilliant. The little drawers are wonderful shapes and the whole advent is staggering.

You will be making loads of these I can assure you! x

:)

Angelnorth said...

Fantastic design Di, love it! I can see you now with your protractor and ruler :haha:

Janice said...

oh Di that is fantastic, I can't believe you designed that, it's beautiful and so unusual.

Kaz said...

Wow Di that is just stunning!! I'd never be ablle to work all that out. I can see it being very popular xx

Net said...

Oh my Di!

That is just A W E S O M E!!!

Emma said...

OMG OMG OMG - I love that, I'll pop over and see it in the "flesh" just as soon as I can!!

Is the pattern for sale perhaps?? lol

well done you my clever talented friend!! xxxxx