Day 8: 12/17/12
Ok, so I apologize for the break in my "12 days of Pinterest" posts. My parents were in from Ohio the last 5 days and we were busy celebrating Christmas (early) and doing all the St. Louis holiday things there are to do (lights, train displays, Christmas concerts....you know!).
Today I am doing a something that when I saw it on Pinterest - I knew I HAD to do it! We have a ton of ornaments. They are currently on our tree (duh) but when they are in storage the other 11 months of the year, they are kept wrapped in tatty tissue paper in shirt boxes that are falling apart. Every year I say "I am going to get one of those "ornament organizers" (the ones you see at Target and Home Depot)....and every year when I go to buy one, I go into sticker shock! How can a piece of plastic that holds 12 ornaments be $20! Of course we have more than a dozen ornaments, so I went on a hunt for something cheaper! Here it is! It cost me $2.50 to make. I used cardboard (that I keep from my scrapbook kits), hot glue and party cocktail glasses (this was all I had to buy). Here's how to make one.
Mine holds 25 ornaments - because that was all the cups I bought. I will be buying more cups and larger cups to hold those taller ornaments. For the flat or oddly shaped ornaments, I'll be buying Christmas boxes (the square decorative ones) on clearance the day after Christmas to store those and I will also replace my tatty tissue paper....
Ok, so I apologize for the break in my "12 days of Pinterest" posts. My parents were in from Ohio the last 5 days and we were busy celebrating Christmas (early) and doing all the St. Louis holiday things there are to do (lights, train displays, Christmas concerts....you know!).
Today I am doing a something that when I saw it on Pinterest - I knew I HAD to do it! We have a ton of ornaments. They are currently on our tree (duh) but when they are in storage the other 11 months of the year, they are kept wrapped in tatty tissue paper in shirt boxes that are falling apart. Every year I say "I am going to get one of those "ornament organizers" (the ones you see at Target and Home Depot)....and every year when I go to buy one, I go into sticker shock! How can a piece of plastic that holds 12 ornaments be $20! Of course we have more than a dozen ornaments, so I went on a hunt for something cheaper! Here it is! It cost me $2.50 to make. I used cardboard (that I keep from my scrapbook kits), hot glue and party cocktail glasses (this was all I had to buy). Here's how to make one.
Mine holds 25 ornaments - because that was all the cups I bought. I will be buying more cups and larger cups to hold those taller ornaments. For the flat or oddly shaped ornaments, I'll be buying Christmas boxes (the square decorative ones) on clearance the day after Christmas to store those and I will also replace my tatty tissue paper....
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| Gather materials... |
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| Arrange cups on cardboard |
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| Glue cups to cardboard |
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| place ornaments in cups and stack to store! |
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