Quick Take: How A Little Crafting Can Make A Big Change To Your Items

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I love home organization, and a few months back I found two teal organization pieces at TJ Maxx that I knew would be perfect in my home office. The only trouble? I needed to find a way to make the teal pieces work with my purple color scheme in my home office.

 I'd shown the results on my Instagram page (@charlietpiper) and I got a few requests for the details on how I completed the transformation. When I found a third teal piece at Marshall's, I knew I had a fantastic way to organize my crafting supplies and I could finally show the super quick process for how you can make pieces work for you with a little bit of crafting.


To the left is the desktop organizer I picked up at Marshall's. It's just a shade or two off from the original piece I customized but it's a negligible difference for me. In this case, I didn't much care for the pictures inside the frames of organizer, but I knew that it would be easy enough to fix it up. To the right is the original organizer I found at TJ Maxx that I wanted to replicate.



First, I popped out the frames and grabbed some card stock and a great decorative punch from Fiskars. 



Using the glass as a template, I traced out my purple background. I then used my decorative punch with this trellis-style teal craft paper to cut out the interlocking circle shape that I'd paste in the center of the purple card stock.

Once I popped my new inserts into the frames it was time to organize my desktop - and I'm thrilled with the results! The total craft project took under 10 minutes to complete but the results are simply amazing. With just a little bit of time you can completely transform items to fit within your decorating scheme and your needs.

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