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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96 Comments

  2. >Cinderella of course! I love that movie. And I love Gus Gus! Your jars look wonderful! What a great idea. Stopping by from Creations by Kara.

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  3. >Wow, what a transformation! Looks great! I'm your newest follower. 🙂

    Thanks for joining my Flaunt it Friday party! Hope to see you back this week! 🙂

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  5. >That is such a cute display! I think I'd need about 20 racks to house all my beads, but oh it's tempting just to have a few pretties on show!

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  9. >Looks wonderful! What a great way to organize! If you have time, I'd love for you to come by and link up for my Friday Favorites party!

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  10. >Hi, Love the way you turned an old spice rack and jars into a great display/organizational piece for your supplies. I just bought an armoire and plan on using if for all my scrapbooking and card making supplies. I have lots of ideas on how I want to do the inside of the cabinet and I think jars will be a big part of it. I'll try to post some photos when I'm done. Thanks for sharing and inspiring me today…
    Hugz,
    Kim

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  12. >The jars look fantastic! I have tons of little buttons from my Grandma that I've been trying to figure out what to do with. I really like this idea!

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  13. >This is so perfect!! I always see old spice racks at my local thrift shop, but never knew what to do with them…..thanks for the inspiration 🙂

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  14. >AH.MAY.ZING! I would have never had thought to repurpose a spice rack in that way. I must hit my Goodwill this weekend to try to find one of my own!!!! Wow –
    Thanks for the inspiration!
    Jen @ Noting Grace

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  16. >I love it! It looks like a display in a STORE! So professional and adorable. Great job!

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  17. >I'm adding "spice cabinet" to my list of thrift store searches now. What a brilliant idea. Thanks so much for linking up to Finished for Friday.

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