Sunday, May 31, 2009

Goodwill Party Time



It's time for Sarah, the Thrifty Decor Chick's Goodwill PARTAYYY!

Sarah has been planning this a while, and I knew I wanted to attend! Off to Goodwill I went. I find that within 2 minutes of walking in, you know what kind of trip it's going to be. I wasn't feeling it. I got a little bummed. I decided to keep moseying. OH. MY. WORD. I'm so glad I did! I found not one, but 3 things! I only had time to re-do one for this little shin dig, but I will definitely share the other's in later posts. They are bigger projects!

Without further adieu, I give you... a really ugly cheese plate!

Mmmhmm, I told you. Let's get a better look at that awesome cheese themed cheese plate bottom, shall we?

Alright, I'm not gonna lie. I might kind of dig the cheese themed bottom if the wood were painted a vintage-y color and i were planning on using this in my kitchen. I however, want to use it in my bathroom. That's right... it's ma' bathroom cheese plate!

First things first. I layed a piece of paper over the whole plate, pressed a marker on the ridge of the plate and followed it around tracing style. I chopped that bad boy out and used it as a stencil on a piece of scrapbook paper I wanted to use as the bottom of my plate. I then taped that same piece of stencil paper to the bottom and spraypainted the wood surround in a cherry red color.

Ahh, so much better! Once the paint dried I simply sat the peice of scrapbook paper that I cut out earlier on top. I didn't bother gluing it or anything. This way, I can change the plate as many times as I want! I can keep this sucker forever.

I think I'm going to buy 3 bars of glycerine soap to stack in there. See the frame that Squishy Baby is in? I used the same black and white damask scrapbook paper a few months earlier to make that matting. I do all kinds of things with scrapbook paper! Endless uses! My shower curtain is b&w damask... so it all flows lovely!

(in fact, my bedroom is also done in red and b&w damask... remember my closet re-do a while back?)

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  1. It's aDORABLE!! I have a couple of these I kept picking up, not sure what to do with! This is great!!

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  2. Your cheese plate turned out so cute! It goes perfect with the frames!
    Martha

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  3. So cute! Great transformation. I just posted a comment on an older post of yours about the baby dresses in your etsy shop. OMG! They are love-alicious! I believe I will be ordering one very soon!

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  4. Wow, that is amazing!! GREAT job! I wish my mind worked like that.

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  5. The cheese plate turned out so adorable. The Goodwill party is such a cute idea!

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  6. Very Cool ! Love how you matched it up !
    Hugs ~ Kammy

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  7. So cute, Lacey! :) I love the way you have everything set up in your bathroom, and I think the soaps would look good in there!

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  8. I'm so going to Goodwill today!!1

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  9. I love how your cheese plate turned out. Very cute! Using scrapbook paper to line the bottom is a great idea!

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  10. I LOVE black and white damask! Great job!

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  11. Love the idea of a cheese plate in a bathroom! Man, I just saw a cheese plate at a garage sale a few months ago, but had no inspiration. What a waste!

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  12. I love this idea! Oh how many times I've passed up ugly cheese plates at the goodwill. And how cool to use it in the bathroom to hold your soap! I really like that black candle stick stand you have the two pics hanging on. Where did you find it? I love that idea too.
    Thanks for the inspiration!
    Blessings,
    Marie
    http://emmacallsmemama.com
    marie@waltercom.com

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  13. oh the cheese plate is so much better, I should spruce somethings up around here

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  14. I am a sucker for damask! I guess I need to take a trip to goodwill. You made some great finds and did a fab job with them.
    Happy Birthday to boy!

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  15. You are so darn creative!!! I love it!!!

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  16. Looks fantastic! Thanks for sharing! Now I will look forward to seeing your other Goodwill projects! I love using scrapbook paper too, there is some beautiful paper out there and so much to be done with it! : )

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  17. Super Cuuuuuute! Love it. I have a million of these things that I use for all sorts of things but I've never thought of soap!
    -Jill

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  18. That transformation is pretty amazing. Happy Birthday to your guy!

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  19. Great find! Happy Birthday to your man!

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