Thursday, October 9, 2008

Spice it up a Knotch....BAMMMMM (altered spice rack)

I have a friend that came over the other day. She's a southern gal, and cooks AMAZING foods. We got to talking about spices, etc, and I asked her if spices expire. She gave me a "LOOK" that told me they do. Then I told her I had my spice rack that I bought when we got married over 8 years ago. She gave me a worse look. I think she puked a bit...that was the look..lol

Needless to say, when she left, I emptied out all my spices into the garbage can (smelled wonderful)and then steam washed the jars. Why throw something away when you can re-use it, right? But it was soooo ugly, so I wanted to pretty it up and make it into a button holder. I KNOW its been done before..a million times, by a million scrappers...but not by me...so here's my version!

Here are some before pics...yuck...



Then I put some fabric and ribbon on the top


I altered the bottles by adding ribbons to the sides, flowers with coordinating button colors to the tops, and buttons inside..yum!









I painted the spice rack creamy white cause it was too Dark.....then when i was done it was too light...lol. Soo.......I got some sage colored acrylic paint and mixed some water with it, and did a wash over the top of the white...much better! I wish the colors looked better in the picture!




Here is the finished product. My my greatest creation ever, but way better than what it used to look like, and I love it cause it swivels! wooo hoo!





Jadyn loved watching mommy making the flower covered containers and shaking the buttons.

"are these for me, mommy?"

"no honey, they're for mommy"

"why do u always get everything?"

"oh boy..."

****stares.....

"what?"

"I axed you a question!"

"UM...WAIT TILL CHRISTMAS"

THE END

24 comments:

Katie said...

That is absolutely lovely! I love how it all goes together!

Anonymous said...

I said it before and I'll say it again....GORGEOUS my darling. Can't wait to get my own!

Corinna
www.myscrapbooklife.com

~Kammie~ said...

OMG Jill--that is AWESOME!!!! what a great idea...now I wish I didn't throw out my old one :O(

@wesome@bby said...

Awwwwwwwwsome!

This Is Me, Doing What I Do said...

Ugh, you make me sick in envy!!!
That is freaking adorable!
Great job!!!

Dona'Scrap said...

gorgeous! love it! want it!

ScrapAddict said...

I have that same conversation with my DS! LOL! Beautiful job on the spice rack!

Anonymous said...

CUTE, CUTE, CUTE! Now I wish I had a spice rack to alter.

Lauren said...

That's cute! Now you need another spice rack for the new spices you'll buy. My family makes the SpiceStack - it stores and organizes 27+ spice bottles from the grocery store in your kitchen cabinet. Check it out at www.SpiceStack.com and Happy Organizing!

LaurieStar said...

This is the cutest thing I've seen in a long time. Love it!

The Gurganious Family said...

SUPER CUTE!!!!!

Anonymous said...

That is cute and creative! I love it!

Ali

Anonymous said...

Awesome! Hope you entered this in to be published. Lots of mags are looking for home dec projects and I'm sure this would get picked for publication.

Anonymous said...

Wow, this is awesome! I need to go find me a spice rack...

Andi

nancie said...

I love this idea!

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