DIY Wall Organizer for Hair Items!

Another DIY for you!

Very similar to the diy wall storage made from a snack cake box,

Things you'll need:

• Canned Coke Box 
• Cutting tools (scissors, exacto knife) 
• Duct tape 
• Something to hang it with (Twine, Ribbon, hangers, etc)

Step 1: You're going to want to cut your box. I basically just cut the coke box in half, which is usually about where the little finger tabs for carrying are. 

Step 2: Decorate it! I chose to cover mine completely with a white duct tape (to match other pieces I have made) 

Step 3: Once it looks how you want, figure out how you want to hang it. You could firmly attached twine or something similar to back to hang it, or you could get small grooved hangs to attach on the back. For mine, I chose to get hangers. I actually bought a pack at Dollar General which had some thin wire, nails and two types of hangers. I chose the an almost flat grooved hanger for this one and I simply just used my duct tape to attach it to the back. 

Step 4: Hang it! The hanger pack came with nails so I used those to hang it on my wall. This is a pretty good storage for my hair straightener and hair curler. It's not going to hold a lot of heavy items of course, but you could also put hand bands, head bands, etc in them as well.

Here are some pictures of mine after I covered with tape and attached the backing before completing it.

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DIY 3 Piece Wall Storage Made From a Snack Cake Box!

Hello, It's been a while since I've posted anything!

Recently, I made a really cool hanging storage piece out of a snack cake box and I'm going to post instructions on how I did it!

Things you'll need:

• Snack Cake Box (For instance a little debbie box) 
• Duct tape (I chose white) 
• Scissors and/or Exacto Knife 
• Jut Twine (or ribbon, whichever you would prefer) 

Step 1: First thing is to cut off the top flaps of the box. You know the little flaps of paper where you initially opened up the box. Keep those pieces. Then what you're going to have to do is to cut the box into three different sections. What I did was measure the length of the box and mark where to cut to make each section even. I then took my exacto knife and cut the box into the three sections. 

Step 2: Now to make sure each box has a bottom. One section will already have one; the piece cut at the bottom, so that one you don't have to worry about in this step. The other two will be open on both ends but we need to get those closed so you can put items in them. This is where the long flaps of cardboard you cut off from the opened end of the box will come in handy. You're going to take one of the flaps and attach it to one open end of the storage piece you are making. It's not a perfect match but I attached mine with the duct tape, once completely covered your bottom is finished. Repeat on the other storage piece with an open bottom. 

Step 3: Once you have three storage boxes that only have one open top, you're ready to decorate them. What I did with mine was cover them completely with duct tape. I chose white duct tape but you could always go with other colors or a patterned tape. You could also pain them or even paint over the duct tape. 

Step 4: After covering the boxes and making sure they are how you want them, the next step is to add some Jut Twine. You can be as creative as you want here, you just want to make sure that you're getting your hanging method firmly attached to the back of your boxes so they do not fall. I measured out a long piece of jut twine, really just eyeballed it, then double it to have two long pieces of twine. Put the twine together then fold them in half then tie them to create a loop at the center of the twine. This is a little hard to explain on how to do and I wish I would have taken pictures to show how, but as I said, you can be super creative and hang this however you want.

Once the twine is ready, then attach to the boxes. I first attached the first one then eyeballed where to put the next one, I ended up putting mine about 3 inches apart. 

Step 5: After making sure its secure to hang, hang it! I put a bunch of my pencils, paints, paintbrushes, etc in mine!

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DIY Flower Glasses!

This is a super easy DIY project for the flower glasses trend.

Thing you'll need:

• A pair of sunglasses! That's a little obvious. I didn't go out and buy a pair, but I'm sure you could find a basic pair of sunglasses for cheap anywhere like walmart or target. I happened to have a pair of old Hello Kitty sunglasses that I stopped wearing due to a bow on one of the lenses falling off. 
• Glue gun
• Craft flowers

A little note; The craft flowers I used actually had little sticky pads on the back of them for application. These were pretty handy when it came to me figuring out the placement of the flowers I wanted because I could stick them on a section of the sun glasses, see how it looked and then peel it back off. However, for permanent attachment I wouldn't rely on just the adhesive pad. A few of the pads did start to fall off a little bit, which was easily fixed with the glue gun. 

First step is to figure out the placement of the flowers on your glasses. Depending on your flower size, colors and type, you may want to play around with placement and even try the glasses on if possible before gluing items down permanently. I had two different shades of pink flowers for mine and decided to do an alternating pattern. 

Second step; Glue your flowers down! Once you make your decisions on how you want your glasses to look, attach all your flowers. You could also put the flowers all the way around the lenses if you'd like. I personally just chose the top because I didn't have enough of the flowers to go all the way around and I was afraid the bottom flowers may touch and irritate my cheeks. You could also add other goodies to your frames; some cabochons would be cute or even some beaded string to add a different touch and make your glasses completely unique. There's really no end to the personalization you could do with this project, as long as you like the way it looks and it's comfortable to wear. 

Third and final step is to wear them! Just make sure all your flowers and possibly any other decoration is glued in place nice and firm! 

My finished pair

I really liked making these because it was legit too simple. This actual DIY didn't cost me anything since I had the glasses lying around the flowers came from a box of older craft items from my mother. Over all though the cost shouldn't be substantial but that also all depends on the extent of your decoration. I know stores, also mentioned above, like walmart and target have cheap plain sunglasses that you can use. I think walmart actually carries a variety of colors, in both fashion clear glasses and sunglasses. The stick on paper flowers I used seem to vary in price but per local craft stores, don't go over $5, most seem in range of $3 for a single pack. 

Overall, I liked this because I was able to use items that I already had to make something I had been wanting to try for a while. A super quick and fun DIY project! 

Hope you enjoy! c: 

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