I decided to allocate one of the two bookshelves to sewing and craft supplies, and the other to the essential items I want to keep downstairs. This second bookshelf still holds a slightly random assortment of items. On one shelf I need to store my iron and it's accessories, my daughter's maths games, and a small assortment of camera gear. Like I said, slightly random!! I wanted to use boxes or baskets to keep items tidy and not so visible, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money. Fortunately I found a free option.
Our local wine merchant often leaves empty wooden wine crates outside their door, for anyone to help themselves to. Over a few weeks I collected several boxes and chose three that would fit best on the shelf. Unfortunately, they looked too plain once I put them on the shelf.
I decided they needed some brightening up with labels. Unfortunately I don't own anything as fancy as a Silhouette machine, so I decided I would make my own images using stencils. I went online and searched for simple silhouettes of an iron and a camera. I also created a quick maths sum outline. I printed all three images in the right size to fit on the end of the box, then I used a craft knife to cut out the image from the copy paper. I taped the images to the box using masking tape and sprayed them with one coat of coloured spray paint. As I already had the spray paint, there was no cost involved in this project. Here are the finished boxes.
Much more interesting. Just so you can really appreciate them, here are a few more pictures taken in better light.
As you can see from the camera image above, some of the spray paint did bleed under the stencil. In hindsight, I should have cut the images out of clear self-adhesive film, to create neater edges on the stencil. Despite the minor imperfections, I think they look great - and you can't argue with the price.
I decided they needed some brightening up with labels. Unfortunately I don't own anything as fancy as a Silhouette machine, so I decided I would make my own images using stencils. I went online and searched for simple silhouettes of an iron and a camera. I also created a quick maths sum outline. I printed all three images in the right size to fit on the end of the box, then I used a craft knife to cut out the image from the copy paper. I taped the images to the box using masking tape and sprayed them with one coat of coloured spray paint. As I already had the spray paint, there was no cost involved in this project. Here are the finished boxes.
Much more interesting. Just so you can really appreciate them, here are a few more pictures taken in better light.
As you can see from the camera image above, some of the spray paint did bleed under the stencil. In hindsight, I should have cut the images out of clear self-adhesive film, to create neater edges on the stencil. Despite the minor imperfections, I think they look great - and you can't argue with the price.
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