Dress up time for our little Princess's

I've been slow this year with  crafting for my blog, but with limited space in our apartment and all the other crafts I did last year, I have to be creative as to what I can do these days.

And with the girls princess dress growing in number and the dress up box becoming overflowing, it was time to do something or should I say, make something to fix it.

I got these cute little wrought iron shelves from Hobby Lobby on sale for $7.50

I had some left over wood, I measured it the same length as the two shelves together.

Cut it and sanded the edges.

Used, Black Krylon Primer and Paint, gave it a couple of good coats, making sure it dries 

Between coats.

I used a couple of D-rings on the back

Then screwed the shelves to the wood and hung it up in the girls wall.

I did drill holes and used plastic wall plugs and screws.

And easy peasy lemon squeezy, you have an easy and quick place for the girls to hand

Their pretty Princess dress and play Dress Up.

The shelf on top serves as a nice little place for the girls crowns and jewelry. 

Seren was quick to point out that there were 2 hooks free.

Her response was, "I'm going to ask Santa to bring me an Elsa dress and an Anna dress for Carys."

It's a good thing I 'know' that Santa has already got them for them! ;)

Seren as happy as can be and I must say that these dresses are getting much more use, 

Now, that the girls can actually see the dress's and the clean up time after being good practice for when they get older and have to hang their clothes up and that they don't belong on the floor!

I made a quick flower hanging so the girls can hand their necklaces on.

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Bathroom Magazine / Toilet Paper Holder

With the weather still very cold here in Madison, WI. It has slowed down how much wood craft projects I can do outside, as I'd have to use the jigsaw inside - ugh... Kicks up too much sawdust!!! But hey, what's a girl to do? I'm on book 5 of the series 'The Mortal Instrument's - By Casandra Clare, and now I have to read slow as I have to wait for the release the final book in May.


I had to do something else with my time - so yep, I got out my measuring tape and put my brain into action.

First, I wanted to change up the magazine holder I made a while back and not to mention the fact that (My hubby kept banging his head and elbows on it!)

I took the old magazine holder down - see the original post HERE.
I will post the revamp of that older holder soon :)

Using the same idea as I used before, I set out to work. This time though I added some extra wood to hold the Toilet Paper holder, plus I still had the other half of the closet shutter door left from the last time.

First I measured and cut up wood to fit across the shutter. Then drilled the back piece of wood which will hold the whole thing onto the wall. I used the original holes, that were for the towel rail.

I added a bottom back piece. Just screw into place

Here are the scraps of wood I cut using the jigsaw. You can see they are level with the edges.

I took a measurement of where I wanted the toilet holder to go (I sat on the loo - lid down :) That way I knew where the first slat of wood would go. Then place the wood pieces on to how you like them to look and simply take some wood screws and screw them into place.

Now remember from my old post when I made the other magazine holder and we took out every other  wood slat. I said keep them, as you may never know when they will come in handy!!

Well, they will :) I used my left over wood slats and used Liquid nails to stick them onto the fixed slats on the shutter.

Apply the liquid nails

Add the wood slat. Giving it a little wiggle to move the glue around.

You can see where the added wood slats are. I used 15 in total.

Now, as it was drying, I changed my mind and decided to remove every other wood slat, like in my other holder. You can see here the gaps left from the removed wood slats.

Using Elmer's wood filler, I filled the gaps 

Used some regular clothes pegs to hold wood slats together while everything dried.

Once dried, it was time to paint. I used Krylon Primer and Paint and gave it a light coat. Letting it dry completely.

I picked up these mismatched color toilet holders from Habitat Restore for $2, and I gave them a couple of coats of Flat Black Krylon's Primer & Paint.

Then, I used all my left over white, lemon icing and cream paint. Mixed them up and off I went. 

Once completely dry, I  marked on the top added a piece of wood, where the toilet paper holder was to go. 

Then at the top of the magazine / toilet holder, I attached some hooks and knobs.

Then taking some sandpaper, I rubbed the edges to make it look distressed.

Now it was time to antique it. I used Valspar Antiquing Glaze. Taking a clean ear bud :), dip into the glaze and apply to the parts you have sanded down.

Working quickly, take a dry rag and wipe off the excess glaze.

Then, using the same technique finish glazing I finished my project.

Add some magazines and the toilet paper holder and Viola! 

My New Bathroom Magazine / Toilet Paper Holder

The Chalk Art picture above, see how I made that HERE.

( All I have done this time was given a coat of Krylon's Cherry Red from Walmart and used a little petroleum jelly applied before onto the picture frame, then sprayed with the paint. Once dried, wipe off the petroleum jelly with a cloth and now you have a new/old picture chalk art picture frame)

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