PlanetJune by June Gilbank

toy shelves

January 4, 2011 @ 10:54 am · Filed under Craft Room, Crochet

Three years ago (almost exactly! it was Jan 19th 2008) I posted about the glass shelves I’d bought from IKEA for displaying my crocheted animals in my craft room. Here’s how it looked back then:

toy shelves
Awww, evidence of a fledgling crochet pattern business!

Things have changed just a bit since then! As I have to depersonalise my craft room and turn it back into a bedroom so we can sell the house, I thought I’d better take some pics for posterity before I have to dismantle everything (sniff). So here’s the current state of my toy shelves:

It’s a bit tricky to fit everything into one photo, as the shelves take up the full length of one wall!

As you can see, I expanded from 2 shelves to 4. I was actually planning another IKEA trip to get yet another pair of shelves just before we found out we’d be moving – things are more than a little cramped on the shelves at the moment, and I don’t even have everything on display!

Credit for another artist: the beautiful sea turtle print you can see on the wall above my orangutan is by Ron Krajewski (dogartstudio).

After a few failed attempts, I managed to get a panoramic shot of everything (this is actually 4 photos I stitched together!):

I promise it’s worth the click through to Flickr for the large version – you can’t see anything at this scale!

I must confess I’m feeling a little bit proud of myself, looking at that photo. I just did a quick head count: 52 on the top shelf and 70 (I think! I kept losing count) on the bottom shelf…

Can you spot your PlanetJune favourites up there?

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Amanda said

January 4, 2011 @ 11:05 am

Wow, June! I’m going to have to re-think my system after seeing yours! I just nail mine to the wall by my desk. It’s not very impressive right now, but I imagine it will be, soon enough. It’ll be like a crochet evolution chart, as I get better and come up with more interesting and challenging ideas. But looking at things like your crocheted Reepicheep… I could never tack him to a wall. Good call on this shelving idea. *runs to Ikea*

Annie said

January 4, 2011 @ 11:27 am

Wow, what a collection June! The last panoramic view is quite incredible.

Nancy said

January 4, 2011 @ 12:45 pm

What a great collection. I actually gave my collection all to the Christmas Bureau this past year.

Alina said

January 4, 2011 @ 10:20 pm

wow, this is amazing!!!!

Corvus said

January 5, 2011 @ 9:28 am

Jeeze, you’re all sorts of productive. Nicely done!

Cora Shaw said

January 6, 2011 @ 4:02 pm

Wow, that is amazing. I have been thinking of doing something similar as I get more and more patterns and designs. Great job!

Julia said

February 17, 2011 @ 12:53 pm

Wow, you’re so creative! It’s really interesting to see all the designs in proportion to each other- some are a lot bigger then I imagined! I must get some shelves next time I go to ikea.