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12/4/2014

Upcycled Furniture Project: Cupboard Door Side Tables

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This is a story of why I don't throw things away. Well, it's a story and a bit of a how-to, so grab a cup of coffee or tea and have a seat.

Some time last year during a routine run of errands, I spotted a pile of cupboard doors at the end of someone's driveway. The homeowner was obviously renovating and graciously left their torn out retro cupboard doors out for trollers like me. I grabbed five of them, with lofty aspirations of refinishing them all to serve as substrates for artwork. I got a good start on two of the doors, but it was tough going, and I then got sidetracked with other stuff. The doors sat neglected outside on the back porch.


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old cupboard doors
Fast forward a few seasons to this fall. I've been itching to fit my dining room with some storage to house my inventory so that it's easily accessible when people stop by the house to see my work. My dining room is smallish, a boxy extension of the living room so typical of 1940s houses, so storage options can be tricky. I had two small spaces where I could see putting some storage, so I started browsing online to see what Ikea, Canadian Tire, and all the others had to offer. I was underwhelmed at the options and defeated by the prices.

But then - click! - the proverbial light bulb came on, and I thought, "I'll make something." And then - cachunk! - a giant floodlight came on, and I thought, "I'll make some tables out of those cupboard doors." I knew there was a reason I got them!

Chalk Paint to the Rescue

As you can see above, the cupboards were pretty beat up from sitting around for so long. I didn't feel like putting much more effort into refinishing them and I actually liked the distressed look they had, so I wanted to paint them with something that would adhere well, but still allow me to bring out some of the cupboards' distressed character. After some research, it looked like chalk paint would be my best bet, and because I'm cheap, I decided to make my own. 
You can find all kinds of recipes for chalk paint online, but here's the one I roughly followed, using leftover paint from the basement:
  • 1/3 cup plaster of paris
  • 1/3 cup cool water
  • 1 cup latex paint
diy chalk paint
This recipe worked beautifully. The paint covered really well (with no primer!!!). I did a couple coats of soft white, followed by a couple coats of soft green, and then went over everything with some wet sandpaper to bring out the distressed texture of the weathered cupboard doors. Spiffy!
upcycled cupboard doors

Great Legs: Pallet Wood

For the table legs, I used planks from some old wood pallets I had salvaged from a few different places. I coated the wood with some white chalk paint, and once again distressed the finish with some wet sandpaper. The distressed boards were a great match for the weathered cupboard doors.
pallet furniture
The resulting table design is pretty basic. Each table consists of two cupboard doors - one as a table top and one as a bottom shelf - and two planks on either side of the cupboard doors to serve as legs. And just for fun, I reattached the retro style cupboard door handles. The tables are a little kooky, but they don't wobble, and I'm quite fond of them.

And - unlike anything I could have found in the store - they're exactly the right size for the space I had, and they serve the purpose of storing my greeting card and earring inventory in a more accessible way. All it cost me was maybe $15 for some plaster of paris and wood screws (all of which I now have for future projects), and a little time and elbow grease. I'm happy on all fronts!
cupboard door side tables
cupboard door side tables
My story about these quirky tables would be incomplete if I didn't mention someone who inspires me with her imagination and incredible talent with a can of paint. My friend Jen Vanderherberg takes discarded and neglected pieces of furniture and lovingly rejuvenates them into gorgeous, artful pieces. Her husband is an expert salvager, and together they find beautiful articles of furniture whose beauty has been worn down or stripped away. Jen uses an array of techniques to restore and/or refinish them, and then works her magic with chalk paint or milk paint. Set aside a couple hours, and spend some time perusing her blog to see all the gorgeous work she has done. To give you a taste, here's a wee sample of my favourites:
Jen Vanderherberg furniture
Jen Vanderherberg furniture
Jen Vanderherberg furniture

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7/17/2014

A Sixth Grade Landscape - Part 2

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In my last post, I explained the story behind A Sixth Grade Landscape: an art piece I made out of trash items collected by sixth graders from Chedoke Public School. I visited the class in May to deliver the finished piece, and it was a highlight of my year for sure!

It was wonderful to see all the faces behind the unconventional art materials that went into this artwork. After I revealed the piece to the class, the kids came in for a closer look. Some of them could pick out the pieces they contributed: "that's my old friendship bracelet", "those are my old pencil grips". It was a delight for me to see the kids interact with this work that we had, in essence, created together.
upcycled art
Sixth Grade Landscape (photo, Jennifer Miscas)
After all the kids had a closer look at the artwork, their teacher, Jennifer, brought home what this collaborative art project was all about: "I hope this experience has helped you think more carefully about what we throw away, and to find creative uses for the things we might throw away every day". Her words so articulately echoed what drives so much of what I do in my creative work.

It has been such a thrill to meet a teacher and a group of students who are keen to be more creative and responsible in their approach to garbage. A few weeks ago, Jennifer sent me the article some of her students wrote about our project for their school newsletter. They've summed up the experience better than I ever could.

From Junk to Art!

Our teacher, Ms. Miscas, was inspired to take up a challenge she read about in Hamilton Magazine last summer. The article was written about a local artist, Jane Koopman, who encouraged people to begin collecting small throw-away items in a "Jane Jar". Once the jar was full, Jane would happily use the collection to create up-cycled works of art.

In September, Ms. Miscas challenged our grade 6 class to begin filling our own classroom "Jane Jar". She encouraged us to put items in the jar that represented us as 11 and 12 year old students at Chedoke School. By January we had filled our jar with broken pencils, hair bands, old toys, friendship bracelets etc...Jane picked up our jar and went to work creating a unique art piece just for us!

The reveal took place in May! Jane created a stunning picture that represented some of nature's most beautiful things: flowers, trees, and the sun, using many of the objects we collected. It was fascinating to see our pencil grips turned into blades of grass, and our play money turned into flower petals!

Not only do we now have a unique art piece to hang in our classroom, but we also learned that the smallest bits and pieces that we might normally throw away are valuable items to eco-friendly artists in our community.

We can't wait to start our next "Jane Jar"!!

Written by, Ahmad Hamadi, Mariam Rabaiaa, Kyra Guzylak-Messam, and Kailyn Walsh (on behalf of our grade 6 classmates at Chedoke School)

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7/3/2014

A Sixth Grade Landscape

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upcycled art
A few months ago, I embarked on a project with a sixth grade class at Chedoke Elementary in Hamilton. Jennifer Miscas, the teacher of this fine group of students, started a Jane Jar with her class at the beginning of the school year, and in January, she contacted me to see if I would create an art piece from the jar's contents. (You can read more about how this came about in my original blog post about the project's start.) I was thrilled and honoured by Jennifer's request.

I finished the art piece in May and delivered it to Jennifer and her class. And with my impeccable timing, I'm finally getting around to writing about it just as all the kids head out for their well-deserved summer vacation. Sorry, guys. Nevertheless, let me tell you the story of how some sixth graders' junk turned into fabulous art supplies.

This is how it all started: a big jar, full of lovely trash.

Jane Jar
I upended the jar and dumped the contents onto a tray to see what would emerge. The bright colours were what first caught my eye. With all the broken toys, school supplies, and accessories that are part of sixth graders' lives, there were lots of vibrant pinks, greens, oranges and blues. Then I picked out interesting shapes and lines, and an idea began to form: a sort of fantastical landscape. 

Some of the Jane Jar contents could be used as-is, but a lot of the trash had to be modified to become part of the artwork. For example, I coiled all the friendship bracelets, hair elastics, and ribbon-y bits into circles, and set them with acrylic medium. I did the same thing with all the loom bands that had made their way into the Jane Jar. I later strengthened the loom band swirls with a coating of epoxy resin. 
upcycled art
the rough sketch
upcycled art
repurposed friendship bracelets, hair elastics, ribbons, and loom bands
As you can see below, the state of my desk was rather chaotic as I made all the components.
art studio

The Best Art Supplies Ever

Eventually all the garbage and repurposed components came together into this assemblage art piece, which I titled "Sixth Grade Landscape". Can you see what's in it? Keep reading to find out . . .
mixed media art
photo, Jennifer Miscas
In my usual forgetfulness, I forgot to take a photo of the artwork, so Jennifer kindly provided me with this one. I've numbered the sections so you can see what went into each area of the artwork:
1. I made the sun out of a lid from a sports drink, a plastic basketball from a broken keychain, broken pencils, and broken pencil crayons.
2. The trees in the background are made from friendship bracelets and broken pencil crayons.
3. The blue flower has a lot of components. 
  • I made the lighter blue "petals" by painting toy money and wrapping pieces around pen caps and pencil grips; pen and mechanical pencil parts form stamens of a sort. 
  • The dark blue petals are made from a correction tape dispenser, which I embellished with pen parts and an eraser. 
  • My favourite petals are made from a toy dinosaur and a lego man embellished with a mechanical pencil hat and a plastic gear at his feet.
  • The centre of the flower is made from a plastic gear and a piece of marker lid filled with tinted resin.
  • I made the leaves out of more paper money, an instruction sheet for a Webkinz toy, and a piece of lined paper. I painted the leaves green and outlined some of them with lime green nail polish. 
  • The dots around the flower are made from loom bands and pieces of pen filled with tinted epoxy.
4. The magenta flower also has oodles of components. 
  • The centre of the flower and the petal at the bottom left are both hair barrettes.
  • The upper right left petal is made from a jelly bracelet filled in with tinted epoxy.
  • I made the remaining petals out of pages from a little cupcake-shaped notebook, perfect for forming interesting petal shapes. All but one of the petals have pencil grips in their centres with stamens made out of springs from pens. The other petal has a hair barrette as its centre. 
  • The purple dots around the flower are made from a ribbon dyed with acrylic ink. 
5. The bottom of the artwork is covered with sliced up pencil grips and a sliced up pen lid. 

I think that's everything . . . 

You might notice that not all of the components I made out of the kids' trash made it into the final artwork. These pieces are destined for another art adventure in my studio, and I have carefully stashed them away until their destiny is revealed. I have done the same with any of the garbage I didn't use from the sixth graders' collection.

In my next post, I'll tell you about Part Two of this story: my visit with Jennifer and her delightful sixth graders. It was a great time, and I can't wait to tell you about it, so stay tuned.

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4/23/2014

More Handy Uses for Clementine Orange Crates

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A while back, I wrote a post about repurposing clementine orange crates as shelving. I always have a stash of clementine crates that people save for me (thereby keeping them out of the landfill), and in most cases, I dismantle them to make other things. But there are also many ways to use these strong little wooden boxes around the house without much alteration. 

Reign in the Paper Clutter

upcycled clementine box
A standard clementine crate is 11.75" (30 cm) long and 8" (20 cm) wide (it is perhaps dorky that I know this, but there you go). So it's a good size for storing mail and paper clutter.

I hot glued some burlap to this clementine crate (including the bottom so it doesn't mark up my counter) and set it on my kitchen counter to collect all the random papers that accumulate at our house. This keeps the papers in one place instead of scattered all over the place. Every few weeks, I sort through it to file things away or recycle the papers we don't need. 

Minimize Cupboard Chaos

upcycled clementine crate
At 11" (30 cm), the length of a clementine crate suits the depth of any standard kitchen cupboard. It's a perfect basket for organizing bagged and packaged goods in your pantry or kitchen cupboards because it's straight and strong (after all, it carried 30 some odd pieces of fruit across thousands of kilometres).

I covered this crate with paper and labelled it. When I need rice or noodles or quinoa, I just pull the crate off the shelf. Easy peasy, and no disastrous spills of thousands of tiny grains.

Tidy Up Your Cookbook Stash

orange crate storage
If you're like me, you have too many cookbooks: some enormous ones that nearly break your wrist when you pull them out of the stack and some small and thin ones that never stand up properly. A clementine crate is the perfect solution because it's the right size for small books, and its flat bottom and sides keep the books nice and straight. (It's okay: "flat bottom" makes me laugh too.) A clementine crate full of books makes a sturdy book-end for your wrist-breakers as well.

So, there's three ideas for the next three clementine crates that come home with you from the grocery store. As for the rest, give them to me :)
Tiny Sidekick

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3/5/2014

Collaborative Upcycling, Sixth Grade Style

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Chedoke Elementary
In a sunny and busy classroom in Chedoke Elementary School, a fabulous group of sixth graders has been collecting junk for me. Their wonderful teacher, Jennifer Miscas, contacted me earlier this year to let me know her class had been filling a Jane Jar, and she wondered if I'd be interested in creating an art piece from the contents. Um, yes!

Jane Jar
Jennifer encouraged her students to fill the classroom Jane Jar with the scraps, trifles and toss-aways from their own lives, along with the trash items I usually collect. So, in addition to the plastic bottle lids, candy wrappers and dried up pens and markers I'm accustomed to receiving from my garbage collectors, this sixth grade class collected such things as pencil stubs, broken toys (awesome!), worn out school supplies, random stickers, and frayed friendship bracelets (I'm sure the friendships have far outworn the bracelets). The jar is not only an assemblage of upcycling treasures, it's also a time capsule: a time capsule I hope to capture and honour in the artwork. I'm going to upend this brilliant jar, let the contents scatter all over my desk, and see what ideas spring forth.
Jane Jar
This collaborative project represents everything I love about upcycling and art: a bridge for strangers to meet, a chance to capture moments in time, an opportunity to take a pause - however brief - to think about what and how much we throw away. And it's the start of something completely new. Lots of the junk in this jar will emerge in the art that I'll create for Jennifer and her sixth grade class. The rest of it will eventually find a purpose in something else I make, be it more artwork or a piece of jewelry. The possibilities are curious, colourful, exciting and abundant!

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2/19/2014

Sweatshirt Upcycle: A Cozy Rescue

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upcycled sweatshirt
I am very attached to this orange sweatshirt. There's no reason for it: it's old, the drawstring for the hood has long disappeared, and orange looks terrible on me. But it's cozy and lumpy and soft and warm, and I love it.

So when I got a stain on it a few months ago, I was dismayed. 

I've had it in my mind more and more that I'd like to upcycle my clothes that are worn, stained or ill-fitting. This seems to me a responsible way to manage my wardrobe: it would save me money and allow me to save beloved pieces. It would also prevent my clothes from becoming part of the pile of second hand store discards that get shipped overseas by the pound. (Millions of pounds of bulk second hand clothes get shipped from western nations to developing nations. There are mixed opinions about how these shipments impact local economies.)

The only problem with my upcycling ambitions is that my sewing skills are, well, scarce. I have lots of ideas, but I'm not sure I have the skills to execute them. Serendipitously for me, some inspired young women in my church decided to start Sewing New Hope: a community sewing circle. 

Since January, we've hauled out our sewing machines every Thursday night and done some sewing between sips of coffee and intervals of conversation. Among this lovely group are some ladies with mad sewing skills, and they willingly help the rest of us who don't always know what we're doing. Each week has a project or sewing skill to focus on if we want, but we can also work on our own projects. This is my opportunity to bring some of my upcycling ideas to life, and I figured I'd start with my beloved orange sweatshirt. 

Here's what I did.

Okay, so you can't really see the stain very well in this photo, but trust me, there's a stain. In the next photo, you'll see what the weird circles are.
upcycled sweatshirt
I cut circles out of some cotton t-shirt scraps in brown, light blue, medium blue and burnt orange. With safety pins, I pinned the circles onto the back of my sweatshirt because I wanted to create reverse patches (that's what I'm calling them, anyway). Following the advice of one of my smart sewing circle friends, I hand-basted the circles onto the shirt so that I wouldn't have to deal with pins while working with the sewing machine. For those of you who are sewing newbs like me, basting is loosely stitching something in place. It is also, of course, what you do when you cook a turkey.
upcycled sweatshirt
And another tip for those with limited sewing experience: sewing circles with a sewing machine is not as simple as it might seem. Maybe modern machines can be programmed to sew curves - I have no idea - but my old-school Singer sews straight lines. This means I had to use a very light touch with the foot pedal and lift the sewing machine's presser foot every few stitches so that I could turn the fabric. I used brown thread to stitch all the circles.
upcycled sweatshirt
Here's what my sweatshirt looked like after I sewed the circles onto the back and turned it right side out. 
upcycled sweatshirt
Next, I cut the sweatshirt fabric from the front of the shirt to reveal the patches beneath. With one hand inside the shirt holding the patch, I pulled the front fabric up with my other hand to separate the two pieces of fabric. Then, I nipped the front fabric, being careful not to cut the patch, and then cut out a circle along the stitching.
upcycled sweatshirt
upcycled sweatshirt
upcycled sweatshirt
upcycled sweatshirt
So there you have it: my beloved cozy sweatshirt reinvented. Not only is the unsightly stain gone, but my shirt has a unique and colourful new style that I'll be glad to wear. 
upcycled sweatshirt
upcycled sweatshirt
Sorry if I've blinded you with all the orange. 

Now. What shall I upcycle next?

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7/11/2013

Retro Kitchen Storage Repurposed as Groovy Bead Storage

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I was super stoked to find this cool retro kitchen storage unit at my local reuse centre. I walked past it a few times, not really noticing its potential until - BAM! - it hit me: this would be perfect for bead storage in my studio. To be specific, seed beads.

I think this plastic contraption was made probably to be a kitchen cupboard organizer for spices, by a company called Kitchen Art. I'm guessing it was made in the 80's.

I have my seed beads organized into bottles by colour, plus some additional tubes full of beads. I stacked my bottles o' beads on the tiers of the kitchen organizer and put the tubes of seed beads into the organizer's handy pull-out drawer. Everything fits perfectly and is within easy reach of where I work. Dreamy bead storage. I love it when I find obscure and handy things like this!
repurposed spice rack
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6/27/2013

An Old Jewelry Box Gets a Facelift . . . With Some Old Jewelry

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On Etsy.com, where I have my online shop, I am part of a team of other wonderful creatives who share my passion for upcycling. Each month, Team Upcyclers hosts a challenge: one of the team members chooses an item to upcycle - like wine corks, old sweaters or old neck ties - and the other team members respond by submitting new and innovative ways of reusing and repurposing the challenge item. You can see some of the past challenges by visiting the Team Upcyclers Blog.

This month the upcycle challenge was to find a use for old and broken jewelry. This was a timely challenge for me because I recently acquired a few shoe boxes full of old and broken jewelry from my Mom and a couple aunts. I have reused a lot of the jewelry from these generous ladies to make other jewelry, but there are a few odds and ends that I can't use to make jewelry. This month's Team Upcyclers challenge provided the perfect opportunity to come up with some ideas.
old jewelry box
One night, I woke up in the middle of the night with an idea of what to do. Why not spruce up an old jewelry box by using old jewelry? It was hard to get back to sleep as I imagined the possibilities.

This week, I headed off to a local reuse centre (the Burlington Reuse Centre - bar none, my favourite place to shop), in search of a jewelry box in need of some love. I found this adorable little jewelry box with a drawer. It was pretty dirty and had a few chinks taken out of the finish, so I figured it was a perfect candidate for some upcycled glory.

jewelry box project
After taking it home and cleaning it, the first thing I did was sand down most of the dark finish to smooth out some of the chinks and scratches. Then, I picked through my stash of 80s earrings, broken brooches and partner-less earrings to see what ensemble would work. The moment I saw this box at the reuse centre, I knew I could use some old earrings as drawer pulls . . . a moment of upcycling destiny, I'd say.

upcycled broken jewelry
I decided to go with a pearl theme. I picked out some post back earrings and a brooch that had fallen apart (on the right in the photo). I also used some earring posts that had lost their dangled attachments.
upcycled broken jewelry
Post back earrings are perfect for this sort of project because the posts can be used as pins for attaching to surfaces. I cut down each post at an angle to create a sharp pinpoint. Then, I arranged all the pieces the way I wanted them. Based on my layout, I drilled tiny holes into the wood, into which I could insert the earrings. Before pinning the earrings into the wood, I added some glue (my beloved Weldbond), just to make sure everything stayed secure. I attached the brooch pieces with glue, tucking them underneath and between the earring pieces.

And here's the result! I'm pretty happy with how this little jewelry box turned out, and I think it will make a great addition to the top of my dresser. Thanks to the Team Upcyclers challenge, I got motivated to rethink, and found a new purpose for some long-neglected implements of fashion.
upcycled jewelry box
upcycled jewelry box
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4/24/2013

Tubular Tutorial: Create a Craft Organization Station with Recycled Toilet Paper Rolls

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My new favourite discovery is the virtuous versatility of the toilet paper roll. This sturdy paper tube is handy for so many things, and I find myself using it more and more in my studio to organize art and craft tools. My newest endeavour is an organization station (yes, I'm rhyming on purpose) for all my markers - made with 28 recycled toilet paper rolls - and I thought I'd tutorialize the process for those of you who could benefit from some colourful tidiness.
Here's what you'll need:
  • a fairly sturdy box: use whatever size will accommodate your storage needs - I used a shoe box
  • enough TP rolls to fill it
  • double-sided tape (glue would also work, but DS tape is quicker for those of us who are impatient)
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  • something to add weight and sturdiness to the base of the box: I used an end piece off some hardwood flooring - another option would be to stick together a few pieces of heavy cardboard
Start by lining up your TP rolls inside the box to see how they'll fit. If you have a gap at the bottom, that's perfect: you can place your weighting wood/cardboard there. If you have gaps at the sides, you could adhere some cardboard to the insides of the box to fill the gaps (or get creative by adding in some other odds and ends).
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I set my end piece of hardwood flooring inside the long side of the shoe box. If you have no room to set your weighting inside, just adhere it to the bottom of the box.
Now, take one of your TP rolls. Put a piece along the length of the tube at the side (at 9:00), and another one along the bottom (at 6:00). (Sorry, the TP roll in the photo is flipped over so you can actually see the tape.) You'll affix the 9:00 sticky side to the side of the box, and you'll affix the 6:00 sticky side to the bottom of the box. Repeat this across the bottom of the box. You'll need to apply double sided tape to three sides of the last TP roll in the row.
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Repeat the process for the remaining rows. For the top row, you'll need an additional piece of double sided tape on the top side (12:00) of each roll. It's a little tricky getting the last TP roll of each row into the tight space, but you can be pretty aggressive. It's cardboard, after all.
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And there you have it, folks: an uber cool organizer with lots of tubular compartments for all your crafty tools. If you're really ambitious, you can decorate the outside of the box. I covered mine with some old wrapping paper I had laying around.

And hey, if you're not arty or crafty - and don't get all keyed up by seeing beautifully organized markers - you can use this organization station to store other stuff around the house. You could use it to store wires and cables, your assortment of string and twine, pens . . . anything you like . . . except knives, maybe.
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I like markers.

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4/17/2013

Be Dippy: Reuse Your Pizza Dipping Sauce Containers for Small Storage

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Again and again, I am reminded that necessity truly is the mother of invention.

I'm always on the hunt for bead storage solutions in my studio. I get a lot of my beads by disassembling old, forsaken necklaces: that means I end up with a lot of small piles of beads, and I don't usually have enough tiny bags or containers to separate them. And though the current disaster-area state of my studio would indicate otherwise, I do like to keep things organized.

A recent pizza night at my house offered a solution. I was cleaning up after chowing down on a large with pepperoni, bacon, mushrooms and green olives (mmmmm), and was washing out the half-finished containers of dipping sauce. (I am not a dipping sauce fan, but my husband, Dan, is.) These plastic containers can be recycled in my city, but as I washed them out, I thought, "Hmmm . . . they're small, they have lids, they're kind of transparent . . . perfect!" I washed them extra thoroughly to remove any residual aromas. I don't want garlic-scented beads, after all.

These wee containers are so perfect for storing small piles of beads. I can't believe I hadn't thought of it before. Besides the virtues I've already mentioned, they're also lightweight and stackable. They could be reused as small storage for all kinds of things around the house: buttons, tacks, nails and screws, game pieces, paper clips . . . you know, all those little odds and ends that dwell among the dust bunnies at the bottom of your junk drawer.

Reusing these dipping sauce containers combines two things I love, love, love: reducing waste and saving money!!
upcycled bead storage
stackable small storage
repurposed bead storage
The transparent lids of dipping sauce containers make it easy to find small odds and ends.
bead storage
You would never believe that dipping sauce containers can store up to 90 8mm beads. But they can!

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