Bits & Pieces Tiered Organizer

Welcome to the June Pinterest Challenge Blog Hop, hosted by My Pinterventures. The purpose of this Pinterest Challenge is to motivate all the participants of this hop {and y’all too} to not just pin, but to make it happen! Look below for a list of past challenges. This month I decided to make a tiered organizer for my craft space!

Past Challenges

The current list for 2019 challenges is below & you can check out this post for a list of 2018 challenges.

• Giant Paper Roses
• Making Feathers of All Kinds
• Bleaching Fabric for Bags
• Painted Wooden Bowls & Trays

I’ve been on an organizing kick, so I was looking for something along that line for this month’s challenge. This pin from Knick of Time – Vintage Farmhouse Living caught my eye. A tiered organizer would be great for my work table – holds more stuff & takes up less room! I’ve made a tiered tray in the past that doubled as a flower vase, but this one will be different. I’m looking to use up some stuff on my DIY shelf!

Let’s meet this month’s Pinterest Challenge hosts!

My Pinterventures •  Cookies Coffee and Crafts
Sew Crafty Crochet •  Sum of their Stories  •  Eye Love Knots
This Autoimmune Life  •  Love My Little Cottage
Across the Boulevard •  Suzerspace •  My Sweet Things
Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After
Purple Hues and Me  • Decorate and More with Tip
Mom Home Guide •  Our Unschooling Journey • Our Good Life
Intelligent Domestications  •  Craftify My Love
Life Beyond the Kitchen •  K’s Olympic Nest •  Teadoddles
Our Crafty Mom  •  My Family Thyme
15 Acre Homestead  •  Farm Girl Reformed

To join next month’s #pinterestchallenge, click here to sign-up ⇒ July Pinterest Challenge

Bits & Pieces Tiered Organizer

The inspiration pin had more of a farmhouse-decor vibe, but I want something that fits in better with my creative space. Not that I don’t like that look, I just prefer something more colorful most of the time!

The first thing I did was check out potential tiered-tray-making items on one of my DIY shelves.

This is where I keep random things I think might be useful one day! It’s right over my sewing table, so that’s why you can see the rack of hangers at the bottom. I like to take advantage of all vertical space!

Here’s the items I pulled off the shelf that are potential candidates for my project. A couple of old cake pans, various plates & chargers, a broken coffee cup, old jar, painted tin can lids, & some old glass light covers. I grabbed more things after I started stacking, which you’ll see in the next few pics!

I knew I wanted my tiered organizer to have a deeper bottom level with two levels above that. Since I’m using random items on hand, I just started stacking to see what I liked! This soda bottle is cool looking, but I don’t like the flatness of the plate…

Definitely like the cake tin better, but that bottle is way too tall…

Now this is too short!

Just right! Feeling a little like Goldilocks now…

That’s an old cookie tin by the way because I can’t throw them away! Good thing I don’t buy them very often… : D

Time to figure out the next level! I do like the extra storage potential using the jar, but, again, I’m not feeling the plate…

Alright, this is it! Love the different mediums & shapes together!

Now that I’ve decided on the setup, it’s time to paint! Did you really think I was just going to leave it as is??

Paintin’ Time!

Y’all it has been a hot minute since I’ve painted anything, which is a crying shame! I was so excited to paint again that I couldn’t decide what color to use, so these are the options…

I sprayed little splotches in the bottom of the pan to see how things looked. Although I like how the blue & black are melding together, I decided to leave that one out. The little dish on top is about that color anyway. The light peach is a definite no for this project!

I also tested out the Cement spray on the glass candlestick & decided it would work for my “columns”.

I’m going for a sort of 80s punk style in tiered tray form, so I had to paint in steps to achieve the affect I wanted. First I painted the bottoms of the cake tins in the metallic black. The cookie tin, glass candlestick, & bottom of the dish got a coat of the cement spray.

Next I painted the interiors of the cake tins with the purple & coral. After it dried, I over sprayed the edges with more metallic black. Then everything got flicks & flecks of the purple, coral, & black.

Time to stick all the parts together using my favorite adhesive – e6000! I’ve found this works great when sticking things together that are made of different materials. It holds up really well under most normal conditions. I say that because the mushroom pincushion on a past DIY project did come off. But only after I knocked the entire thing off a really tall drafting table!

Either way, I’m scuffing the paint on this project to get better adhesion with the glue.

I realized after I started gluing this together that the lid will still be removable on the cookie tin. Secret storage for snacks y’all! : D

What do y’all think, does it have that 80s vibe?

Adding the Punk

I think it’s time to “punk” things up a bit, ha ha! At least I amuse myself even if no one else is laughing! I gathered a bunch of metal buttons from my various button jars & some other bits from my scrapbook stash.

Y’all gluing on vertical surfaces is never fun! Sometimes extra “fingers” are necessary & these plastic clothespins are great for that.

Some of the buttons grabbed on right away, no problem. But some of them did not want to be part of my project & kept falling off! You can see I’ve got some serious slide marks going on…

Since I plan on covering the whole side of this eventually, I’m not too bothered by it. I’ll be adding random things as I find them, like this sliced nickle…

I guy I used to work with put it through a paper shredder just to show me that I didn’t have to remove staples. He could have just said that without the demo, but then I wouldn’t have this to add to my project!

I also glued on these tiny handles I got on clearance at Hobby Lobby…

I painted the top dish with the cement paint on the outside then did some speckling with the purple & coral paints. The outside had some stains that didn’t want to come off.

All in all I’m pretty pleased with how this turned out!

Oh yeah! It has a secret compartment too! : D

I do intend to fully cover the middle tier, but it takes a while to get stuff to stay on there! Until I find another day to wait for glue to set, I’m going to start filling it up…

This bits & pieces tiered organizer fits in nicely in my craft space! Hope y’all enjoyed the post!

 Now, let’s see what the other hosts have created ⇓⇓