Jewelry Stand

Today, me and a couple of my friends took a trip down to value village. I've been looking for a way to display my jewelry lately and have been looking for a nice tray to display them on. I was considering a DIY project.

But today, at VV, I found the PERFECT thing. I found a jewelry display too that I could've painted but I knew I had to have this stand.

It was made out of sterling silver so it was really tarnished - nothing some baking soda couldn't fix! And voila! My new display!! :) good as new :) ten bucks well spent, me thinks!!

Keep posted for my DIY from last week - a frame turned into note holder!

Au revoir!

Ikea Kilby Shelf Makeover

Hello, hello!

So last week, I embarked on another DIY - but this time it was more of a makeover!

Sometime last week, I decided that I really needed more storage in my room, so I decided to buy a shelf! I was spending a lot of time on pinterest and seeing lots of ideas of how people gave the Ikea Billy shelves a hack/ makeover.

I realized, however, that there was another shelf called the "Kilby" that was $10 cheaper and about 5" skinnier - which fit my room better! BUT the problem with the Kilby was...unlike the Billy, the Kilby only came in a shiny Birch finish - and I wanted white! So I decided to get the Kilby and do some makeover-ing of my own!

So here is what I started with!

It was really easy to build - so I was on my way!

I left the back off because I wanted to make the back more interesting than just the grey particleboard (?) backing it came with.

Once painted, it looked like this: (I actually used 3 coats of white primer instead by Rona, which did the job)

When I first started the project, I wanted to add some sort of fabric or wallpaper to the back to give the shelf some interest (and to make it prettier!). It just so happened that I had some coupons for Michael's - so I decided to take a trip down to Michael's. When I got there, I found some of this Kate Spain (haha) wrapping paper and decided that it would work too! 

My colour scheme for my room is mostly mint green (okay, all mint green) so I thought the orange might be a nice contrast to the mint. I had to buy two rolls since the shelf is taller than the 5' roll.

When I bought the Kilby at Ikea, I also bought some of these:

They were $2.99 for 5, so I thought they would work well with the shelf :)

(I believe they're called Flyt.) I didn't like the boring white so I bought some spray paint from Rona (RustOleum Painter's Touch - Mango in Matte Finish). I had to make sure that I didn't spray them too closely so that the cardboard didn't get too wet and warp. 

So back to the shelf: once painted, I wrapped the backing that came with the shelf in the wrapping paper. I was so scared I was going to rip the paper - but I didn't!! 

Since I bought two rolls, I decided to put the seam, where I joined the two rolls, directly behind the one permanent shelf (It came with 1 permanent, and 3 adjustable).

After I wrapped it, I just followed the rest of the directions on nailing the backing to the shelves and voila!

After some heavy lifting to my room :) - here it was!

Complete with my spray painted magazine files! 

This is still a work in progress since I just accessorized using stuff I already had. :)

I'm embarking on mini DIYs to complete the accessorizing so stay tuned!

(My desk is really messy in this pic too, so I will take a better picture of the whole package soon!)