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Mission Organization: Guest Post Two-Twenty-One

June 28, 2012

Posted by Jessie under Guest Bloggers, Organization

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We’re relaxing on vacation this week, but to keep everyone {including myself} inspired to organize, I have my good bloggy friend-and Haven roomie!-Chelsea here to share some office organization with all you fine people. Enjoy!

Hey, Imperfectly Polished readers! I’m Chelsea from Two Twenty One. I’m stopping by to share two of my most recent organizing projects.

Let’s get started with the first project– a fabric covered faux nail head trimmed cork board. Woof. Say that 10 times really fast. I made this from a cork board I already had, some fabric from JoAnn Fabric, and thumbtacks from Walmart. The total cost was around $12.

I started by ironing the fabric because no one likes creases on their fabric-covered cork board. Then I sprayed the cork board with adhesive before laying the fabric on top. I smoothed out the fabric with my hands so there weren’t any bubbles. Then I started to push in the thumbtacks. (Push it real good.)

After all 200+ thumbtacks were in place and my fingers felt like they were going to fall off even though I did this over the span of a couple days, I hot glued the excess fabric onto the back of the cork board.

Note: If you plan on taking on the self-torturous task of pushing 200+ thumbtacks into a cork board I suggest spreading it out over a few days. Your fingers will thank you.

The next project I’d like to share is my DIY lucite tray. I mean, who doesn’t love all these fun lucite trays popping up all over the place? I know I do. But, I don’t like the price tags associated with them. We’re talking $80-$140, folks. I dunno about you, but I don’t have $80 to blow on a tray. I do, however, have $15 to spend on my own lucite tray.

Here’s what I did: I bought a 13″ x 8″ acrylic tray at The Container Store (love me some Container Store) for $10. Then, in Photoshop, I created a couple 12.5″ x 7.5″ liners to lay in the tray. I saved the liner designs as PDF’s and had them printed and laminated at Office Depot. Printing and lamination cost about $5 per liner.

The liner lays pretty flat in the tray, but if you were worried about its stayability (yes, that’s a word) and didn’t want to switch out liners, you could secure it with, my good friend, double sided tape.

I got so many emails about these tray liners that I started selling them in my Etsy shop.

Thanks for sharing, Chelsea! Love the fabric choice:) And the tray is gorgeous!

3 Responses to Mission Organization: Guest Post Two-Twenty-One

FrancineJune 28, 2012 at 8:58 am

Love these ideas! I am about to start a whole office/craft room makeover so you can be I will be stealing them!! I don’t have photoshop so I wonder if I can create something similar on my Cameo…hmmmm.

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Chelsea @ two twenty oneJune 28, 2012 at 3:07 pm

Thanks for having me, Jessie! Hope you’re enjoying your vacation!

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- JessieJuly 1, 2012 at 8:24 pm
  
  Thanks for sharing your projects, Chelsea:)
  
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