{"id":15311,"date":"2013-01-14T16:45:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2013-01-14T20:24:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T01:24:52","slug":"easy-diy-desk-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=15311","title":{"rendered":"Easy DIY Desk Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thank you everyone who participated in our Birthday Week Giveaway. \u00a0We have a winner. <\/span>\u00a0Congratulations to Jan<\/span><\/span> who won our drawing for a $50 Etsy gift card. \u00a0Jan, we have sent an email to you.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

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I usually have a calendar desk pad on my desk, but I decided to change it up this year and make a fun colorful one for my desk.<\/h3>\n

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Without a desk pad my desk looks kinda blah.<\/h3>\n

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Our study is a work is progress, but in one corner is this beautiful roll top desk that was given to me by my parents when they down-sized. \u00a0I always loved this desk in our house growing up, and I am thrilled to be able to work at it. \u00a0When I am not traveling for work, I work from home. \u00a0This is actually a piece of furniture that I won’t paint.<\/h3>\n

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I made one of these desk pads years ago and thought it would be easy enough to make again. \u00a0I started with some foam board I had on hand. \u00a0I purchased some fun colorful fabric to use and some ribbon. \u00a0I thought this fabric would be cheery when I looked outside on those grey Syracuse days.<\/h3>\n

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The first thing I did was iron the fabric.<\/h3>\n

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Then I placed the foam board over the fabric and cut around leaving about one to two inches to fold over. \u00a0This foam board was on hand and looks a little beat up, but it worked fine.<\/h3>\n

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I took a glue gun and put some glue on the back of the board and folded up the fabric. \u00a0I pulled the fabric tight.<\/h3>\n

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I wanted to add an area where I can put notes on the desk pad so they wouldn’t get lost. \u00a0I marked four inches in on the foam board and made a line where I would glue the ribbon. \u00a0I pulled the ribbon very tight also.<\/h3>\n

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Here it is! \u00a0What \u00a0a fun and easy new desk pad for my desk! \u00a0If I get tired of the fabric, it will be easy to change and update the look.<\/h3>\n

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The foam board is still sturdy enough to write on, yet it protects the desk. \u00a0Well, I guess I now better get back to work!<\/h3>\n

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Thank you everyone who participated in our Birthday Week Giveaway. \u00a0We have a winner. \u00a0Congratulations to Jan who won our drawing for a $50 Etsy gift card. \u00a0Jan, we have sent an email to you. I usually have a calendar desk pad on my desk, but I decided to change it up this year and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15337,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions\/15337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}