DIY mirrored vanity tray

Welcome back, friends! As many of you know we are starting over on all of our belongings and furniture we had acquired. One thing I miss badly was my makeup area. My husband, being the awesome guy he is, is putting a vanity area together for me. One thing I didn't have before but I always loved the idea of one was a mirrored vanity tray. I went looking online and when I came across how much they were I was like thanks but no thanks!
I decided I could just make one so I did. Gotta tell you, it was stupid easy. it only required 3 items and I had it done in 5 minutes. plus you can customize them however you want.  The three things you need are:

• mirror (mine is a 10x13)
• decorative rocks or pebbles
• E6000 or a hot glue gun

Did I mention I got everything (except the E6000) at the dollar store? Yeah, it cost me less than $2.00 to make this. Here is what I did.

The first thing you wanna do is clean your mirror. The glue will adhere better to a clean surface. Then I got all of my little pebbles out and arranged then how I wanted them and made sure I picked ones out that would fit in the little nicks and crannies.

Now that you have an idea of what you're going to do, you can start the gluing process. You can glue them one at a time like I started to do or you can do what I ended up doing which is applying a thick line of glue down the edge and placing the pebbles on it. I found this way worked a little better because not only is it easier, but it gives the glue a chance to get a little tacky and hold the pebbles better during the drying process.

That's all there is to it. Now just give it some dry time (about 24 hours to be on the safe side) and you have a gorgeous (and cheap!) mirrored vanity tray!

I'm probably going to make another one to store other stuff on because I thought this turned out so cute and it was literally one of the easiest DIY's ever. What's your favorite way to organize your products?

DIY cheap and easy toy box!

TGIF friends! Who doesn't love fridays? The weekend is so close you can taste it and you can't wait! More free time with the family, but it also means more time for the kids to make a huge mess with the toys. Am I right? If you mommies and daddies are anything like me you want a cheap and easy solution to store the toys without having to go out and purchase an expensive toy chest that will probably end up getting trashed anyway. I have the perfect solution and it takes no time at all! Not only is it easy and practically free, but it's 100% customizable. Let's get started, shall we??

First things first. You are going to need:

• a big sturdy box (I used a microwave box)
• scissors
• utility knife (optional, I just used plain 'ol scissors)
• mod podge
• foam or paint brushes

First you want to cut all the "flaps" off the tops of the box.

Now you can get your wrapping paper out and measure all the way around it leaving yourself a couple of inches to overlap.

Don't trim the top or bottom part of the wrapping paper off. You'll see why in a minute. 

Now for the fun messy part, take your mod podge and coat the side of the box doing your best to make sure you have an even yet generous coating. As you can see I got a wee bit crazy with it here!!

Flip the box around so the sticky side is face down on the wrapping paper. This also gives you a nice "base" to work with so it's not sliding around when it's time to pull the rest of it together.

Procede with spreading more mod podge on the remaining 3 sides. Once the box is nicely coated take one end of the wrapping paper and making sure it's tight and smooth, press it onto the box.

And repeat....

With what is left overlapping you can cut it off with your scissors or you can do what i did and just seal it with more mod podge.

Now take your brush and paint the mod podge on the bottom of the box and start folding the paper onto the bottom to "glue" it down. 

Now you can sit it up right and cut down on all 4 corners so the new "flaps" will fold over the inside edge with ease.

Now take your mod podge and seal around the inside edges on all 4 sides, folding the wrapping paper over to seal it.

And now you have a handy dandy toy box!

With ease you can go from this....

to this! Told you! Soooo soooo easy.

This project literally took me minutes and my boys think it's the coolest thing ever. In hind sight I wish I would have gotten some plain paper and let them decorate it but that's another project for another day. This would also work great for smaller boxes to organize drawers, closets, etc. The list is endless! Use your imaginaton and be creative! I hope you enjoy this as much as we did! Happy weekend!!!!

Until next time!

RoyAna

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