Easy Craft Room Organization: Button Storage

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

Create Your Own Customized Button Lampshade

I love me some buttons. I've got lots and lots and lots of them
(Can you have too many? I think not). I decided to spruce up a rather plain looking
lampshade with a few (more like 600) buttons.

 

For this project I wanted a variety of cream colored buttons in different sizes.
Headed over to Etsy and found just what I needed. 

Out came the glue gun. I have a love/hate relationship with my glue gun. Sometimes it is so sweet and helpful, and sometimes, when I'm not paying attention, it just burns the you know what out of me. You could also use tacky glue - you'll just have to hold the buttons in place for a little bit while they dry.

Learned (the hard way) it's easier to glue the shade and add the buttons to the
shade instead of putting the glue on the buttons directly. I put a row around the
bottom of the lamp and worked my way up staggering the sizes.

 As a final touch I tied a translucent ivory ribbon around it.
It weighs quite a bit so make sure to have a sturdy shade.

Have fun creating!

Love, Steph

 

 

Fun Way to Organize Your Buttons