Worthwhile Wednesdays 1st Anniversary Party!

Welcome, Welcome all to the 53nd

Worthwhile Wednesdays Link Party!

Today, we are celebrating my 1 year Link Party anniversary, not my blogs anniversary, my Worthwhile Wednesday anniversary!

And today you'll get to party hard!

I've got  7 very lovely co-hosts today!

Retro Re-pin Party 27

Thank you all so much for linking up last week!

Hope you like the links I have featured...  

be sure to stop by each hostess to see what they featured as well! 

Large DIY Storage Crates by 

Odessa Le Miroir The Mirror by

DIY Jewelry Dish using air dry clay by 

Be sure to grab your "Featured Pin" from Redo It Yourself Inspirations! Check the other hostesses to see if you were featured with them too! 

  Thank you for sharing with us!

Now, Welcome to the Retro Re-pin Party 27!

This is the fun new party where you link up your Pinterest pins and have them re-pinned! Link up your old or new pins - we don't care we just love to pin!! Thank you for coming to re-pin with us!

Our updated button! If you want one, take a button. Stephanie made these for us and we would love to see them scattered around the web!

Meet your Retro Repin hostesses! With such awesome hostesses on 8 blogs, that's 8 times the exposure for your pin!  If you love to pin and want to join us, leave a note or send an email, we would be glad to have you!

Time to meet your hostesses!! Please consider following each on at least one social media to keep up with our news!

Kristina and Millie @ 2 Crochet Hooks: Blog/Pinterest

Dee @ Meatloaf and Melodrama: Blog/Pinterest

Stephanie @ Sustaining the Powers: Blog/Pinterest

Felicia @ Nifty Thrifty Family: Blog/Pinterest

Leslie @ Crafty Side of Sarcasm: Blog/Pinterest

Julie V. @ Somebody's Dinner: Blog/Pinterest

Robin @ Redo It Yourself Inspirations: Blog/Pinterest

Deb @ Mommy Crusader & Her Knights & Ladies: Blog/Pinterest

We would love if you would follow our Retro Re-pin Board!

Follow TwoCrochet Hooks's board Retro Repin Party on Pinterest.

*~* Are you all ready to party?!? *~*

 

Note: By linking up to this party, you give the hostesses permission to share your posts via social media with links back to the original source. If you have entered an email address into the link up too, an email may be sent when the party goes live. Your email will not be used in any other way.

An InLinkz Link-up

Recycled Shoe Box into Stencil Designed Storage

Shoe boxes are great for storage. They are small and stackable; my favorite way to organize clutter. But they aren't always pretty. So I decided to decorate some by recycling them into craft storage. When decorated, you can display them on an open shelf. 

I started with this flip lid shoe box. Perfect for some of my crafting scraps, I wanted a happy design and soothing colors. 


So I spray painted the box in this bright turquoise color. 

Then chose to use this stencil designed by Dina Wakley for The Crafter's Workshop. With my color palette in mind, the striped leaves are a great design. 

I taped the stencil to the lid of the box vertically. Using just four repeating lines of the design, I painted white, bright green, brown and white. 

Then I randomly designed the front of the box with colors and leaf direction.

After the paint dried, and I thought the box needed a bit more. Something more like a label. I intended this one to be for craft scraps labeled "Junk & Scraps".  So I used this favorite stencil. Because I wanted the leaves in front, I painted in between the leaf lines. (Next time, I'll reverse the stencil use.) 

Here is my first decorated box to get started with organizing!

  

How do you recycle or decorate your shoe boxes? 

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