A year - desk and other things - 3rd instalment

 Also last year I tried to make my perfect desk.  To write letters, poems, memoirs  ?... I needed a desk.
   

It is made out of scraps of wood and paper and cardboard.  Here are some photos about it's construction.

You can see it in these last two photos in situe in the far right hand corner of the medieval  banqueting hall. There is still masses to do to the hall. I tidied it up for my birthday in January and invited friends for it's own birthday - it was freezing!

 ( The end wall above the minstrels gallery had been rendered in horrible grey cement - so I painted the stones back onto it.)

Above the cupboards iether side of the room I made four small 'stained glass windows'.  I cut the 'lead' from lino, put blobs of glue for the 'solder' and painted it lead coloured.  Then I glue it to perpex and flooded each section with ordinary house varnish (water based) coloured with food dyes. ( I spent all day, feeling like an alchamist, trying to work out how to make transparent paint.)

Then glued the sides to the back of the wood where I'd cut the hole, and papered some cord around the hole at the front because it finished it off nicely. 

The cupboards are for a life time's collection of craft equipment and materials - and the lights in the cupboards shine through the 'stained glass'.

I had allocated February to painting a mural for a neighbour - he had see the one in the bar ( I mentioned it in the blog - but I haven't put pictures) and had set his heart on having one himself.  He spent two years decorating the dining room. (He was a baker in Paris most of the time - he is retiring this month). Also ' laisser secher' was mentioned a lot and the Pastis appeared.   That means  leave it to dry - time to drink. He said paint whatever you want - so I based the design on the ingredients of the drinks that people consume while visiting - because that is what happens in that room.