Ah, so busy working on my wee kitchen that I haven't composed a recent post! Today I made a really cute floor to ceiling blackboard for the kitchen. I just need to get some matte finish spray paint to seal it. So excited!
The Printies
The Printies I used, well, I didn't scale them the best I could because I was tired. Too tired to go upstairs, defeat the baby lock on the cupboard and sneak out a tube of toothpaste in silence to figure out the proper dimensions. It looked close enough to me!
The medicine printies are from a photobucket site that I had pinned on Pinterest. The soap is from the Chrysnbon bathroom accessories kit.
The tray is a few pieces of scrap balsa with some tinfoil on the bottom for shine. Here's a tin foil story. I saw these shiny metal sheets at the dollarstore in the craft aisle. I thought, cool! shiny sheets!! Did I notice that it was made by Renolds, the aluminum foil people and put two and two together? No. So I essentially bought sheets of aluminum foil. Shaking my head.
The Little Bits
The bathroom plunger and trash can are from the Chrysnbon kit too. I painted both. To fill the trash can I used scraps of paper and tissue. But too make my life easier I filled the can half way with wax from a tea candle. Just tapped it down with the end of my craft knife. Gave it some weight and it required less filling AND provided a surface to glue to.
The towel I stole from Miss Kitty's wash clothes. I needed white terry cloth. But I wasn't even thinking about using them until I was putting her laundry away (the same week I was finishing the bathroom) and had a light bulb over the head moment. She no longer has any white wash cloths. Sorry kid.
The electrical sockets and light switches are from Small Stuff's Print Mini. They have 3 colours to choose from.
What I have added is a baseboard along the vanity wall. It finally arrived in the mail from China. My Amazon purchase.
The bathroom accessory tray was a 1/16th scrap of balsa that I wrapped in my fancy aluminum foil. I then used some scrap necklace chain to trim it. The Chanel No.5 bottle is a bead with findings and a long metal mini nail going through it and into the tray (along with being well glued). I wrote on it with the little metal pointed poker that came with my craft knife (aka a scalpel). The black topped bottle is a wood plug or the legs you use on miniature furniture. Just a bead and nail through it too.
The toothbrushes are from the Chrysnbon kit. The cup is the eraser cap from a mechanical pencil. I also packed the cup with wax so the toothbrushes sat higher and could be secured with glue.
The tissue box was a 1/2 inch wood cube from the craft store. I cut about a quarter off of it. and I drilled 2 holes into the top and connected them with a little carving. Then I glued in tissue. Painted, it looks pretty good.
I am a total sucker for the items in Restoration Hardware. But I only buy when its on sale, or hunt for knock offs. So, I made my own knock off of their "Le Bain" line with a Houseworks Finial. The other jars are just beads.
The Vent
I am a sucker for details. I stared at my bathroom and realized I needed not only light switches and plugs but I needed a vent too!
This one is made from scraps of balsa that I planed out very thin with my knife. I glued the thing to my fingers several times. Swore a lot too. Then I needed some mesh. Off to the dollar store the next day! I found a spatter guard that is intended to put over a round frying pan. So it was big and had fine mesh, bingo! And it had a $2 price tag for a lot of mesh....sold! I glued a piece in place and painted it to match. Word to the wise, paint and mesh looks messy. It forms a bubble surface on the mesh. Not the best description, but it leaves paint blobs. I used a dry brush to tap the bubbles and have a clear mesh. And being lazy and not wanting to leave my stool to find black paper, I found some grey 600 grit sandpaper to back the vent with.
The pipe is make from a juice box straw. The toilet paper rolls are toilet paper strips rolled on a dowel.
There you have it! My bathroom accessories. Nothing fancy but I like it.
