DIY Marble Dollar Tree Pots for Succulents

I'm pleased to announce that I have completed another round of finals without dying. This means I am halfway there to my Bachelors Degree. (AHH)

I've been easing into summer, trying to recover and I did my first summer DIY the other day!
I picked up these succulents and a package of three mini terra-cotta pots from the Dollar Tree. I see this kind of stuff in stores, envision something adorable, do a scary evil laugh and toss them in my basket. Muahahahah

Okay but really, I just popped the succulents out of the cheapy plastic pots and gave the terra-cotta ones a quick coat of white spray paint.

I could tell you I tried what worked right away, but I feel it's my job to allow anyone and everyone to laugh at me and to also keep you from trying it these ways too. All I knew was that I wanted to marble them. (that's good grammar, right?)

I used the plastic pots the succulents originally came in to practice first, which was smart so I didn't ruin the other pots, but it also probably would have worked differently with plastic than with terra-cotta anyway. Oh well.

Initially I tried the tub of water thing. I've only ever seen it done that way with nail polish, but I figured I would try it anyway with the small samples of paint I have leftover from my craft shelf boxes.

FAIL

Then I found the one bottle of turquoisey-teal nail polish I had and tried that. 

Nope

I remembered seeing a tutorial for marbling nail polish with a plastic bag. They dotted a few drops of the leftover wall paint paint on the nail and used the plastic baggie to mix the colors.

I used the wall paint I orignally tried and painted a few spots randomly around the pot.

Then I used a piece of saran wrap (affiliate link) to mix the paint into a "marble" effect.

And I don't have a picture of this step, because I was covered in paint and didn't really feel like painting my camera.

But this is how they came out!

That's all! Show me pics of yours! #LittleBitsofLacey and I might just repost them :)

xoxo,
L

Pretty Craft Shelf: Craft Supplies Organization

Okay so here it is. Almost a year later but here is my craft organization!

I started by mapping out everything I had to store, and planned how I was going to store it. I made a big order from Ikea and ordered a million Kassett boxes. You can find them on Amazon here
 if you don't want to pay for Ikea's shipping. (affiliate link) I also got 6 sample size containers of paint in ombre-ish shades of turquoisey blue and coraly pink. Those were all real words, right?

I even planned how to disperse the colors and then I laid everything on the floor of my living room and painted until I wanted to throw them all away. They all took something like 4 coats.

I also made some Kate Spade inspired boxes for the shelf. 

Adding them to the shelves was the best part and I filled them with everything and added labels.

These pictures are also from many different times of the past year. I found it really hard to photograph this shelf for some reason, and that's why it took me so long to write this post. Oh well though, you get the point.

I've also recently moved the vinyl from being out in the open to my closet because I doubled the amount of vinyl I had and it wasn't as pretty as the rest of the shelf.

What do you think? Any questions? Let me see yours! #LittleBitsofLacey

Happy November guys!

xoxo, L