Kitchen Scraps

The kitchen area of any thrift store across the US has a bin of wooden utensils.  While cheap, most I would want to use for cooking.  But I found another use for these kitchen scraps.

The idea for Kitchen Scraps came to me months ago when I was in the middle of making something to hide our ugly cable box.  You can see and read about how to hide the cable box here.

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I bought the wooden kitchen utensils at our local thrift store, then got busy putting the idea in action.

I did take every bit of the fifteen minutes to put this one together.

I grabbed a board from the ever-growing wood pile 🙂 and arranged the wood utensils in a pattern I like.  I liked the utensils to hang over on each side better than fitting the board.

Then took a picture so I could remember the pattern!

I spent a whopping $1.50 for that wooden spoon, but it came with the fork.  The others were 25 cents apiece.  I drilled two teensy holes into the handles of each piece.  Then a bead of wood glue and tapping in small nails holds the creation together.  Use needle nose pliers to hold the nail.  Saves whacking your fingers!

Next, I coated everything with creamy white paint.  I used a small artist brush to get the paint into some of the grooves.  I painted it on thick.  Which is hard for me because I paint with a light hand.

Do you paint heavy or light?

After the paint dried, I touch some areas with an antique white for more definition.  Then when that dried I lightly sanded the high areas for even more definition.

Then I added a glass handle.  I found the glass handle years ago at an antique shop for $6 and never used it.  I didn’t stay with my thrift shop purchase with the handle but I liked it better than any others.  So, I hope you allow me this one. 🙂

Although it would be cute with a black painted handle!

I love the glass knobs painted black on this Pottery Barn inspired dresser.

I hung it above my sink with a bar rag handy for my messes.

My kitchen scrap, or handy art!