![]() Once the Mod Podge dries, trim away any excess paper.Paint Mod Podge on the rolling pins and smooth the printed recipe cards down on top.Print out on a laserjet printer to prevent bleeding. Enlarge the scans on a computer and resize them to the dimensions of the pins. Spray paint two of the handles red as shown. Use painter's tape to make stripes on the handle.Use the sandpaper to distress as desired. Spray the handles with white paint and let dry.Use the chop saw to cut the wooden plaque in half and the rolling pins to size.Once that dried, I did a bit of distressing with 220-grit sandpaper.Īfter that I used painter’s tape to mask off sections, and then used red spray paint to create stripes and patterns. I wanted the pins to have a used, vintage-y look, so I sprayed the handles antique white. In all cases please use proper eyewear when cutting through the pins. If you don’t want to cut the rod, you can glue the handle in place. Usually with the metal rods you can unscrew one handle and remove the rod before sawing the pin in half. You can then saw the rod using a hack saw or strong wire cutters. Note: Before sawing the rolling pins, try to determine how the handles are connected. Some pins use wooden dowels and some use metal rods to connect the two ends. I wanted the pins to be different heights, so I cut two at 6.5″, and two at 5″ tall. Using the chop saw, I cut my wooden plaque in half and cut my rolling pins to size. Strong wire cutters (if the pins use metal rods).Spray paint – white or red ( craft paint would also work).A wooden plaque from Michaels (cut in half) – use a 5″ x 7″ plaque or one large enough to hold your pins.I’m pretty proud of the final outcome! I love when the ideas in my head actually translate to great new projects. This video also contains four other fun dollar store DIY projects to help you organize your life using Dollar Store products. That’s it! If you would like to see exactly how I attached the brackets to the bookends, you can watch the video below. I did one final spray paint afterwards to cover up any sign of glue on the sides of the bookends.Then wiped off any excess glue, and clamped them until they were set. When it appeared smooth, I pushed it against the side of my houses, ensuring that both the houses and brackets were flat on the ground. to do this, I squeezed some PL Premium onto my brackets, and then smoothed it out (using gloves of course!). Attach the brackets to the houses with PL premium glue.Spray paint everything with black spray paint (the houses and L-shaped brackets). ![]() Find some brackets that are just the right size to sit on the side of your houses.This project could not be easier, I’ll outline the steps to make your bookends here, but there is also a video tutorial below if you want to see everything in action! Honestly, I have a hard time scaling back projects to make them totally doable for the average person, but this one really was totally doable for anyone! Here’s everything you need to make your DIY Bookends: There are just so many great ways to DIY with them!Ĭlearly I turned my next set of bookends into some stylish DIY bookends. But I couldn’t help buying a couple more the last time I was in the dollar store. I’ve already used them in two projects: these Wall Planters and this Holiday Tablescape. So instead, I buy these little guys and DIY with them. But I LOVE these little houses! They wouldn’t be that hard to make if we’re honest, but I can’t make them for the price that I can buy them at the dollar store! Sure, you could use scrap wood, but my time is worth more than that. It’s rare that you find something at the dollar store that you actually love. These little houses are where this idea was born from. For more info, please see my disclosure page.* When you buy a product through one of my links, I get a commission at no cost to you! Thanks for supporting my blog so I can continue to bring you posts like these. That’s where my DIY bookends idea came from. I wanted something simple, minimal, and pretty that I would be happy to have sitting on my shelf. And most of them I look at and think, “I could make that for way less!”, lol. Most of the bookends I find at my favourite home decor stores are waaaay too overpriced for my taste. But I still love the look of them! And I must not be the only one, because they’re still on shelves everywhere I look. Like half of the items on the shelf, they’re there to look good. Do you have any bookends? I feel like the only real use for bookends these days is decorative.
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