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Hi Friends!
Sometimes the simplest accents can add a lot of personality to a room. It doesn’t hurt it the simple accent cost less than $5.00. I was on the hunt for a little tray to act as a landing zone for our keys and sunglasses. I would say that I am addicted to sunglasses. If I forget them, I spend the entire outing thinking about how bright it is or the wrinkles that I am creating from squinting. I won’t even bore you about losing my keys. I headed out to Goodwill and found a perfect little tray. I am guessing it was a trey to hold candles. I purchased the upcycled tray for $1.99. Not bad huh?
My Upcycled Thrift Store Tray
It wasn’t pretty, but spray-paint can pretty much fix any “ill looking” item. I am really into coastal inspired colors right now and I chose this pretty blue spray-paint.
Isn’t this a great color? I applied 2 coats of spray-paint to the tray and let dry over night.
It was nice and pretty just being blue, but I wasn’t finished. With my friend the Sharpie, I started drawing little scales on the tray. Sometimes little monotonous tasks like drawing little scallops over and over again calms down my brain. I doodled the scales while supervising my boys take their bath. They were screaming and dumping water on each others heads and I was pretending to draw mermaid scales on a metal tray.
Now, my little upcycled tray is a pretty place to put my sunglasses. It was easy and inexpensive. I hope you enjoyed this project as much as I did creating it. Spray-paint is a glorious thing!
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Thanks, Carmody
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Cute cute idea! Thanks for sharing. I love to spray paint things too. It changes everything.
Thanks so much. Spray Paint is great.
I love finding stuff that I can pin to my craft board. I’m not a crafty person so there is literally no pins there. This is a great idea and I loved how it turned out. Email me at contact@findingcrystal.com if you want to pin to my Craft board. I’ve made it a group board so I can get other bloggers that want to pin their stuff there. Like I said, I’m not a crafty person.
Thanks for pinning my tray Crystal. I will send you a email and would love to add to the group board.
This is gorgeous! I love the blue color. It really pops! I cant believe the difference between the before and after. spray paint really does make a big difference
Thank you so much Alvina. It was also easy and that makes me love the tray even more.
Soo cute! I would love it if you joined and contribute your awesome posts at my link party at City of Creative Dreams it starts on Fridays
Hope to see you there at City of Creative Dreams Link Party
Great job, Carmody! I love the design you created with Sharpie! So clever.
Thanks Heidi!
This turned out sooooo cute! That is my fave spray paint brand! I actually just did a project with that same color!
It is my favorite brand too.
Great idea! I like the Sharpie detailing
Thank you so much. I have a weakness for Sharpies.
Love, love, love this. I need to make one for myself-I’m constantly loosing my keys and sunglasses and this would solve the problem. I’ll be featuring this at the next Frugal Crafty Home Blog Hop on Sunday night! Thanks so much for sharing this!
Thank you so much Carrie! I am glad you like it!
Newest follower right here! Love this easy DIY idea, and I want to explore doing more of this myself
Found you on Blog Hobnob Linkup!
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