This weekend I was helping my mom get ready for her garage sale (mostly making sure she wasn't getting rid of anything I wanted) and while going through her mountains of
I've been looking for a utensil caddy ever since I saw this little beauty.
I don't even remember where it was from (sorry-if anyone recognizes it let me know so I can add a source link). It was sold out of course, and waaaaay outa my budget. I kept the image to remember and drool over it's lovely patina.
I thought about trying to faux paint my mom's to resemble my dream caddy, but in the end I decided that I liked the enamelware look of it just fine. It just needed some sprucing up.
I had some stencils from hobby lobby and decided to paint a number 5 on the front.
While it did come with some pretty sha-nazzy silverware I decided to replace it with some of my great grandmother's mismatched silver my mom had given me. I'll keep those fancy green numbers to send in the kid's school lunches.
Final result?
Pretty stink stankin' cute! It even had two empty holes to throw my salt and pepper shakers into.
And what can the hubster's say? I spent nothing on the project! Of course I spent my whole morning playing around with an old enamel utensil holder...hmmmmm....maybe we'll just keep that one to ourselves.
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