My new pantry!

Pinterest inspires.  Plain and simple.  I am NOT a creative person nor can I come up with ideas on my own... Most of the time.  I can take an idea and copy it but coming up with my own not a gift I possess.  Finding Pinterest has recreated me.  I love to do projects.  I love social networking.  After completing my first projects from there, I began to find others.  My biggest project (so far) is redoing my pantry.  Just removing the items was a huge project!

It started with this picture I saw on Pinterest:

Painted the entire inside and covered the walls with old recipe pages from a church cookbook. The trim looks like crap and I was under STRICT orders not to paint the wood.  OOPS!! Paint brush slipped!

Some of the paint peeled on the shelves (not pictured).  I gave it another good coat and bought some shelf liner.  The white was too much of a contrast anyway. 

The "stuffings" covered most of the recipes but I know they are there!  (Notice the 'dings' are gone from the trim?) 

THEN.... I needed some cool storage containers.  I bought some on clearance at Target. They had Christmas tins on clearance for $ .50 each.  I spray painted them a khaki.  The glass jars came from a thrift store.  I saw on Pinterest where you take empty diaper boxes and line/cover them in fabric.  I wanted something that I could wipe off and wouldn't show the dirt as much.  I remembered a craft from Campfire Girls where we took masking tape or brown paper sacks and decoupaged them on something. 

So I tried this....

Wet the paper and scrunch it to remove extra moisture. 
Spread Modgepodge on the back of a piece and place on the box.  The pieces are very randomly placed. Make sure you smooth out any bubbles.

Once you get it covered, apply a light coat of stain:

 Then, I sprayed with a clear coat for protection.  I keep a roll of self-adhesive shelf liner on hand that I painted with my homemade chalkboard paint and cut pieces for the different storage containers in my new pantry.  My next part will be to paint the lids of various storage containers to match.(Oh! and some "skinny" chalk.  I am using sidewalk chalk right now. LOL)



I continue to "tweak" my organization and am currently making another 'leather' box for storage. I know, not that interesting but it sure was fun!!