Shelves

When we moved in our bathroom closet had no shelves. Not so useful. So I had to make a few. It is super simple, especially for such a small closet.

Measure your spacing up the walls on both sides. Screw some strips onto the wall. Mine were about an inch and a half When attaching to the wall make sure to use a small level to ensure that the shelves will fit.

Cut some shelves to fit and simply lay them on top. In your worried about he shelved sliding off then you can attach them to the strips as well.

I put some contact paper on them to make it prettier. Then just fill it up.

-Karen

Mushroom Pin Cushion

I needed a min cushion and just little circles and rectangles are boring. Everyone has apples or strawberries. I decided to make a mushroom.
I started with a bottle cap and covered with felt. I held it in place with hot glue. I cut a 1.5 inch strip and wrapped it around.

I cut a 6 inch circle out of pink felt and loosely stitched the outside. Grabbing both ends of the string I gathered into a poof. Then the poof was filled with pillow stuffing.

Then it is just a matter of gluing the two pieces together. I also added a few white spots to finish the look.

-Karen

Magnetized Board

I have seen the idea of using magnets to organize all over the place. They usually seem to use abar magnet, but for some reason I seem to have a ton of these...

So I decided to make my own bar style magnet. I got a scrap piece of wood and drilled a bunch of holes in it.

The magnets were 3/4 inch and I drilled 3/4 inch holes so the magnets needed to be tapped in but not glued.

 I did a quick test to make sure it was strong enough to hold what I wanted. It worked out so I proceeded to covering it. I was going to use paper but had an old shirt that is an awesome blue so I used fabric instead.

 All that was left was to hang it up and put it to use.

-Karen

Wine Bottle Soap Dispenser

This year I am on a mission to reuse and save money. So that means I will hopefully be making a lot of projects from scraps, "trash", things you can find anywhere.

Everyone has seen the wine bottles with a bottle pouring spout on top. I made one for my dish soap, and oil bottles. The just are not practical for hand soap. Can you imagine having just touched raw meat and picking up the bottle to clean your hands. I wanted to make the dispenser somewhat match the dish soap.

I had one of those tiny wine bottles and an old soap dispenser. I had to do a little cutting with the dremel to remove a shoulder and make it fit properly.

It was a little loose fitting in the bottle so I added three little hot glue bumps.

Once the glue was dry I did a test fit and it worked perfectly. It fits snug, doesn't spin, and comes apart easy enough for refills.

- Karen

Light Up Snowman

Here is a simple yet pretty winter decoration. All you need is a jar, some paint, fabric, and a light. Paint the jar white. I would recommend using a jar with no raised lettering. You don't want writing on your snowman. Once it dries you can use black and orange paint to give him a face. Then let the face dry.

Wrap a strip of fabric around to be the scarf. Make a tube slightly bigger then the top of the jar out of the fabric. Fold the bottom up into a cuff. Gather the top up into a poof.

 You can then put lights into the jar if you would like. You can use a string of lights or a battery operated tea light.

-Karen