Watch: Professor John Dyson's inaugural lecture at the University of Birmingham – 'In search of treasure and redemption'

I’ve always just bunched up a length of whatever fabric I could find that looked good or a table cloth into a sort of fluffy tree-base cloud.

I painted the sides in a light brown and then used a glue stick to attach some burlap to the fronts..I trimmed all the edges in some twine.

Watch: Professor John Dyson's inaugural lecture at the University of Birmingham – 'In search of treasure and redemption'

The only thing that cost me any money were the little metal “handle” things.I splurged and bought two different packs of ten in two different sizes.So that was about $3.

Watch: Professor John Dyson's inaugural lecture at the University of Birmingham – 'In search of treasure and redemption'

I found them in the “conduit” section of the hardware store..I was asked three different times if I needed help and on two of those times, I was definitely addressed as “young lady”.

Watch: Professor John Dyson's inaugural lecture at the University of Birmingham – 'In search of treasure and redemption'

I kind of felt like I was in trouble for being in that section of the store.

But I pushed forward and bought my conduit,um,.. thingies!.Subscribe by email to receive free posts straight to your inbox, or follow along using any (or all!)

of the methods below!It was probably almost a year ago that Chris sent me a text from work one day with a picture of a desk.All it said was “You want this?” All I said was “Yes.

I guess it had been taking up space in the office somewhere and they had just decided to toss it in the dumpster and clear up some space..It looked like this:.