Lets Make Things

Soooooooo I finally made a "bathroom organizer," with the help of my daddy of course! It turned out great! Usually my projects are kinda shitty because I get too excited and end up doing a sloppy job and not think things through, but my dad, being much wiser than I, had some great ideas I'm sure it would look like a five year old did it if I didn't have his help.


First we went to home depot and I looked through a lot of pinterest here are a view links you can check out too

Organize Your Bathroom

Weekend DIY: Bathroom Organizer

DIY Bathroom Organizer

Mason Jar Sunday

Mason Jar Bathroom Storage


So now check out those blogs I combined my favorite/easiest ways and I'll provide some helpful hints

What you need:

Mason Jars .99 each at the 99 cent store
(or anything else you want to use I have an alcohol themed bathroom Patron corks as my knobs and a Jack Daniels bottle as my soap dispenser etc. so I'm going to take Grey Goose bottles and cut off the tops to make cups. You can google how to cut glass bottles)
Wood $1.28 Home Depot
Hose Clamp $1.20 each Home Depot
Screws
Paint
Saw
Screw driver
Eye hooks
Felt circles .99 from the 99 cent store


First my dad cut the wood, we bought a piece of a picket fence because it was super cute, but you can use wood you already have or get molding like some of the other sites used. Unfortunately to keep the cute cut out ends we would have had to cut the middle then nail it back together. That was just too much work on the 4th of July in 110 degree weather, so we cut the ends off.

So now that the ends are off I was going to paint it but my dear ol' dad grabbed some old spray paint he had and painted it for me! (he put a nail in the back and tied a string on the wood so it would hang. I didn't see the point in painting both sides.)

While we let it dry we decided where we wanted the Mason Jars on the wood and where we wanted the hose clamps on the Mason Jar. At first I wanted the Jars centered and the clamps centered on the jar. But my dad said it would look better if the top of the jar was lined up with the top of the wood. Then we put the hose clamps a little higher on the jar so it was center on the wood. Confusing I know but you can see in the final picture how it looks.

After we decided that, we had to figure out where to drill the hole in the clamps. First I aligned the hose clamps exactly the same on each jar. Make sure the screw part of the clamp is in the same place as each jar so your finished project looks more uniform (once again this was my dads idea, he is so clever) once I did that I looked for the center of the back of the jar and marked where the screw should go. 

Then we completely opened the clamps. When lined the jars on the wood and marked the spot it should go and where to drill the hole in the wood. After that we got the drill, lined up our holes and put in the screws.

My next tip is to not use brass screws. My dad was trying to be fancy and wanted it to look nice so he got the brass screws but those ended up getting stripped. We got most of the screws in all the way, but they were still sticking out a bit. We had bought this little adhesive felt pads like the kind you put under your furniture so they slide easier, to put on the back on the wood in case the wood lay on the wall, so we put those of the face of the screws? I don't know what you would call it maybe head? That what you call it on a nail right? Anyways the part that you put the screwdriver in not the point side there. We did that so the jars would remain secure even with the screws sticking out. Then I put the jars in the hose clamps, tightened the hose clamps and bam! Well not quite first my dad screwed the eye hooks into the top of the wood so I could hang it 

see the eye hooks? He put them in a little bit at an angle so it would sit against the wall nicely. 

Then my mom, knowing that the only nails I have are the little baby ones she just bought me last week, gave me these Hercules Hooks which are pretty cool and strong hence the name. All you do is push them into the wood and turn no hammer needed! They sell them at Target I think 

I got the image off google

and that's it! My boyfriend was impressed and then said "Your dad did most of the work didn't he?" He knows me too well :]

While I was at Home Depot with my dad I took advantage of the situation (aka his wallet) and bought some other stuff to add to my itty bitty no storage anywhere bathroom. I'll post those later! Home Depot, and the .99 cent store are my FAVORITE places!!!!!!! and I'm bored now... bye