Sunday, June 7

Party cutlery holder

Last week I spent lots of time on my son's graduation--cleaning the house, preparing for guests, looking at baby pictures, crying. You know. The mom thing.

One thing I wanted for his graduation party (and for other parties, for that matter) was some kind of cutlery tray--something to hold plastic forks and spoons. Seems like most of our entertaining is of the casual variety--not a lot of sterling-silver-cutlery parties here. But plastic cutlery won't just lie there nicely on the table; it needs to be corralled.

My budget for this: $0.00. My money needed to go for other things. The cutlery tray was just something that I wanted.

Here's what I came up with.

I rescued this from the trash.



I thought about covering it with colorful paper, but then I decided to keep it neutral so that I could change it up at will, so I was going to cover it with brown kraft paper.

Then I realized that I had a can of spray paint was pretty much the color of kraft paper: "Nutmeg" by Rustoleum. So I spent about 60 seconds spray painting it.

Then I added a green ribbon (for my son's school colors) and some graduation scrapbooking stickers I had picked up. And here's what I ended up with:



And for my next party, I can change out the ribbon and stickers. . .or even leave it plain. Might look cool with just a few strands of raffia tied around it.

Like it? I love it! And it did its job really well. Those plastic forks and spoons never had it so good.

Shared with Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch and with Kim's Trash to Treasure Tuesday at Reinvented

20 comments:

  1. Very clever! I always end up with cutlery in glasses.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Very cute idea!
    Your header is beautiful.
    Blessings to you,
    ~Deanna~

    ReplyDelete
  3. I'm totally stealing that idea for DDs graduation this Saturday!!! I also have a baby shower coming up next month ....Oh I'm so glad you posted this!!!!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Great way to recycle and make it to fit any occasion.
    Joyce

    ReplyDelete
  5. Too cute!!! What a clever idea!!!

    I love your header photo...beautiful!!!

    Have a wonderful day!!!
    XOXO
    Cathy

    ReplyDelete
  6. Fabulous!!!! And it turned out so cute as well.

    ReplyDelete
  7. Now that is real trash to treasure! I love it!

    ReplyDelete
  8. I use those things to keep mustard bottles from tipping over on the door of refrigerator. Yours is much cuter because I didn't decorate mine!

    ReplyDelete
  9. That turned out great! I did one a few weeks ago that I use for my scissors in my craft room. Great repurposing!

    ReplyDelete
  10. that is great idea, i normally have mine in cups.
    hugs
    janet

    ReplyDelete
  11. Clever! I wouldn't of thought of that!

    ReplyDelete
  12. That is a fabulous idea, I love how you can change it up for different occasions! Thanks for linking up to trash to treasure Tuesday, sorry it took me so long to get here! :)
    Congrats on your son's graduation!

    ReplyDelete
  13. WOW is that the most clever and cute utencil holder ever!!!

    ReplyDelete
  14. Great idea! Beats my plastic solo cups!

    ReplyDelete

Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment! I read every one; they make my day. If you have a specific question, please be sure your email address is attached to your profile or leave your email address in the comment; I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Every blessing!