You know I love buttons. I use them in all sorts of art and decorating projects and over the years I've accumulated a few (OK, more like thousands) of them. And they seemed to expand exponentially when I am looking for a particular color. So after too much digging through bags, I decided to organize them so they're easy to find and pretty to look at.
Found an old spice rack at the Salvation Army.
Spray painted it black (three coats).
After cleaning out my parent's spice cabinet (there wasn't a spice they didn't have and most of them were waaayyyy old), I had a bunch of leftover spice jars. Originally found them at World Market.
The biggest part of the job was sorting the buttons. I ended up pouring them all out on my dining room table and watched movies while I put them in piles. Yes, the excitement never ends in my house.
Loaded up the jars and colorized them. I learned to colorize when I worked retail in college and it has stuck for all these years - even my closet is colorized from light to dark. #loveOCD
This
particular spice rack holds 18 jars and I was able to pretty much fit all the buttons into it. I did need an additional large jar to hold my black buttons
(seem to have a million of them).
Voila!
One part of my Craft Room is organized - yay!
Happy Organizing!
Love, Steph
