Oh-ho ho Pretty Beads… Craft Room Organization

written by:Cassity Kmetzsch

What movie is the first part of that title from?  Anyone?

Cinderella, can’t you just see Gus-Gus getting all excited about the beads for Cinderelly and the big fat Lucifer running over to sit on the necklace?….

Anyway,  I have been trying to organize my craft rooms for months.  A while back, I decided that all interior items(meaning not tools in the garage) that have anything to do with creativity needed to be in one space.  So, I started collecting from around my house.  It is amazing how far the paintbrushes and watercolor paper have been from each other for so long.

Well, it is not like I work on the space everyday, or even every other day but I have been working on my craft room for MONTHS now.  It has been whipping me good!  I go in there to clean it and end up making a bigger mess than I started with, get discouraged, shut the door and leave it for another week or two.  (obviously, I haven’t been using it for crafting, let alone using any of the junk I am storing…)

I am all over the place with this post, and I am about to go even further.  A few weeks ago, I went to a thrift store and found this great 3 leveled spice rack with the cutest little glass bottles, with glass stoppers. (I already have two similar spice racks unused at my house- I may have a problem!, no I don’t have time to see a counselor!)  And I thought I could use it for my craft room.  Here is what I did.

Before:

This was it, I think I got it for $4.00-ish. I dumped all the spices, then took them all apart carefully and cleaned the little bottles like crazy- say no to curry smelling beads!
After it looked like this:
I decided to paint it the same color as my the peg board ( I had like 2 tablespoons of paint left, it worked out perfectly) .  There are a lot of things going on this peg board and I wanted it to not be too busy looking… We’ll see if I succeed.
How I did it:
I sanded off the word Spices before painting, and rubbed a few of the edges with a candle.  Then I painted really thin coats with a foam brush (no brush marks!), not really attempting to cover it all, I wanted an older sorta look.  After I felt it was covered enough, I just buffed the edges where I had used the candle with a rag.  (that paint came right off to the original finish, without sanding down to fresh wood.
Then, I filled it up with beads, she looks so beautiful now!  (and I feel like I need to go buy more beads so that you can see them a little better)  But for now here it is.

What do you think?


P.S.  Sorry that I have been sorta absent from my blog lately.  I had an emergency family trip come up about 2 weeks ago and have been out of town for those 2 weeks, I just barely got back.  It was unplanned and I was unprepared, so my blog has suffered a little, and honestly it may take me a few weeks to catch up with projects to show you.  But I will have a ton of great guests so please keep coming by.

If any of you have any tutorials you would like to share with everyone, send me a link!  I would love to show off your work, and I could really use some help.  Also, I will be featuring more of your party projects with the help of the Mr. R.

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  2. >This is a FANTASTIC idea. I just saw one of these at the thrift store for $2.00…since I am NOT crafty, I didn't think of it as holding pretty beads…bummer !!

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  4. >Looks great. There is just something about glass jars/bottles all lined up with the glass sparkling that looks fantastic.

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  7. >This is great, and who does not have an old spice rack around. I think everyone I know recieved one of these as a wedding gift.

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  8. >Beautiful displays…and thanks for taking the time to play and show your cottage at "Show Off Your Cottage Monday"…. would love to see our little logo… 😉

    Hugs

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  11. >Oh I am jealous, I'm always planning my storage but never quite get to organise it! Great idea:-)
    Tracey

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  12. >That is so very cool. I found some of these bottles from a garage sale last year, I was going to use them for spices, but now I'm rethinking that!!
    Can't wait to see what else in going on that pegboard…I am intrigued by that idea, too!!
    Thanks for linking up to "Anti-Procrastination Tuesdays"

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  16. >Those spice jars make for a beautiful display! It must be wonderful to see all your beads at one glance.

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  19. >LOVE this idea! I am so going yard-saleing and thrift shopping this weekend, I just have to make one for my room!

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