Mary Ann
I like to take something and give it a new purpose. I have made tables out of wicker animals or wrought iron planters. Just add a piece of glass and voila, you have a table. Sometimes I create these things out of necessity. I can’t find the right thing, so I figure out how to use something else to accomplish what I need.
Case in point, I needed a hamper, waste can, and tissue box for a bathroom and just couldn’t find what I wanted so I found some white planters (Shabby Chic looking) at an import store and used them. I added a mesh bag to the big planter for a hamper. The small planter perfectly held a boutique tissue box, and a little footed planter became the waste can. I suddenly had a garden.
Then I needed some storage for the same bathroom. I kept looking for a basket or a box for my perfumes. Nothing seemed right. One night I dreamt that I put my perfumes in a birdcage. The next day at Marshall’s, I found the very birdcage that was in my dream. However, it was black rather than white, and that was easy to fix. It was one of the few times in my life where a dream came true.
I got other white birdcages to store bath salts and oils, sponges and loofahs, and a big one to keep toilet paper. The birdcages fit right in with the planters for a garden feel. It was fun to grow the idea and find the pieces to make it real.
These ideas are probably on Pinterest, but I have never really used the platform. I am a little scared that once I started using it, I would never surface. I would get lost in all the creative ideas.
I encourage you to try to take something ordinary and make into something extraordinary. It is fun to experiment and see where your creativity will take you. Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention, and where it takes you can be an adventure!
Silver Sage Sisters 