Cool Junk

I got this idea from a crafty friend and I have made several of them. The bread boxes are easy to find at thrift stores and the DI.  They usually run between $3.00 and $5.00. 

How to:

1.  I bring them home and wash the cobwebs out of them. 

2.   Prime them and paint them.  I use spray paint.  Walmart has primer and paint for a dollar a can. Yahooey!!  

3.  Sometimes I distress them with a little sandpaper around the edges. 

4.  I sometimes stain or glaze over them.  (I just use what ever I have on hand.  Just brush it on wipe it off) The bread boxes usually have dings and scratches in them.  When you distress them it looks like those dings were on purpose. 

5.  Add vinyl lettering. 

They are super easy and super cheap.

before

The uglier they are the cheaper they are.

Here are some other uses we have come up with for these bread boxes.

1.  Drill a hole in the back to thread your cell phone charger through.  Put c-hooks inside for keys, set on a shelf near  the door you use the most. (I love to have a hidden place for clutter.) Instead of putting the word "bread" on it you could put "stuff" or "simplify".

2.  My daughter came up with this one.  Some of the bread boxes have a magnetic closure.  Her idea was to hang it upside down underneath your kitchen cabinet next to the phone.  Put pens, note pad etc. for a little message center.  Brilliant!

3.  If your bread box is big enough you could hide your can opener or toaster inside.  Again, just drill a hole in the back to thread the cord through.

4.  Giant recipe box

5.  Bill/mail organizer

6.  Desk organizer

"I can only control how hard I work, and how much I swear."

This is my mantra. It really applies to anything happening in life. Hard work generally helps things, swearing and a bad attitude generally make things worse. My house right now is chaos and I don't really care that much. I am working hard trying to figure out how we are going to live around a construction zone, and it has definitely messed up a few plans, but it seems like a waste of time to be upset. (Remind me of this come July when my house is still torn apart, and you hear bad words coming out my open windows.) But for today this is what I am going with.

Here's a picture of my wavy hardwood floor, The Handy Hubby cut his foot on a corner of the wood yesterday.  We will
"de-poop-ify" soon. 

The good Lord giveth, and he taketh away. (And hopefully giveth again)

I started this blog thinking it would be a fun place to document projects. People ask me at times how I have done something and I thought I could combine my newest hobby (photography) with my little bit older hobby (turning junk into something cool).

I mentioned in my first post the kitchen ceiling caving in. This is how it started, more about that later.





Well Tuesday night one of the children plugged up the toilet, it ran all night drenching my house including my newly drywalled basement with poo juice. Okay, okay I think most of it was clean water but when I say poo juice people make funny faces and I find that entertaining.

So now I think I'll blog my way through the restoration process (how do they get poo juice out from underneath hardwood floors anyway, kids put your shoes on!) Here are a few pics of some of the damage.









If you can contain your excitement I will show you my wavy wood floor tomorrow. Until then may your toilets flush properly.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us. We really appreciate it VERY MUCH!!

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