I don’t know about you, but I’m glad the weekend is here and I’m ready to see this week in the rear view mirror. 🙂 And I want to thank SO many of you who sent me wonderful, positive emails! That made my day totally, so thank you so much for that.
I’m adding this post to Wendy at The Shabby Nest’s Frugal Friday party!
You know how I love to decoupage things. I really was on a kick several years ago and stopped for awhile, but there’s just so much you can do with the stuff. Found these cardboard magazine holders at a yardsale, 50 cents for all. Have you priced these lately? You can hardly find a plain one for less than $8 or so. I have a couple of them that I’ve painted to match my office, but I can always use more for my magazine hoarding enjoyment.
So, first thing I did was give them a quick spray paint coat of black on the insides making sure to hit the edges too since that would show.
Then I went to Hobby Lobby and bought scrapbook paper to match my office and it was 1/2 off that week. That’s always a plus!
I simply laid the paper on each side, creasing the paper to fit the cardboard and cut it all out with scissors, then glued it on with my Mod Podge. I didn’t even coat the top of the paper, just underneath.
And when they were finished, they looked like this and now I have all this extra magazine storage. These are plenty sturdy for my needs.
And they’re mostly filled up already. I really have to get rid of some of these.
Do you ever actually go back and read old magazines?
I hardly ever do, so I don’t have a legitimate excuse to keep holding onto all of them. What I need to do is cut out the articles and pics I really love and get rid of the rest. I just can’t seem to part with my magazines. Can you?
Hi Rhoda. I love these! I love the colors and the paper patterns you chose. How fun and so simple. Thanks for sharing. I do look back through old magazines but I mostly pull out the pages I want to keep and put them in an inspiration binder in clear sleeves. I love paging through that when I ned a little push.
Beautiful! I went through my old magazines recently and tore out all the recipes and design ideas. I gave the rest of the mags to Freecycle people. I hold onto my scrapbooking magazines, and that’s about it now….
Rhoda, your post really touched my heart… my mother who passed away almost twenty-five years ago at the age of 54, she was too young to die and I was too young to lose my mother… anyway, there was a period in her life when she and her friend started decoupaging. I can remember how much pleasure it brought her and how proud she was of each piece. Thanks for triggering those fond memories.
LOVE THEM!!!! Makes me want to do some….like right now!!!
I always tear out the good stuff from my magazines and sort it into file folders. I have a scrapbook of my dreamhome, of course. When I am finished with a magaizine, I recycle it. Doing my part to make Planet Earth a better place for my kids. 🙂
Hi Rhoda. Wow, very cool idea and I love the geometric patterns you chose! Hope you’re doing well and Happy Spring. ~Arleen
These are great! Since you like Mod Podge I think you would enjoy my blog
http://www.modpodgerocks.blogspot.com
Love what you did!
These look great! What a sweet garage sale find!
I usually clip my favs of every magazine and file it. I have a fun file that's just for my crafts, decorating, etc. I do hold on to scrapbooking magazines & Family Fun.
Ooh, I love magazines, too! I try to tear out the articles, recipes and ideas I like, then I take the magazines to recycling if I’ve torn out too much to donate to either: our hospital waiting room, the ferry terminal (for people to take along on their trip), the jury room at the court building (some of those magazines are 10 years old the last time I served on jury duty!) and even the second hand store. Love your site – all the way from Alaska! LE
Very cute!! Wonderful idea!!!
They turned out so cute! I would need to find WAY too many in order to fit all my magazines. Yep, I admit it. I keep a lot of them. I eventually go through them and cut out specific things and file in either folders or binders. It depends on which stage they are in. 😉 First to folders and then the ideas I REALLY love to into a binder. Whew. I obviously need to deal with this addiction.
Looks great! I love the bright green with black and white and especially all the mixed patterns.
Oooh, I love it.
Now I am going to have to pull out all my magazine boxes and make them gorgeous too. Thanks for the idea!!
These look wonderful! I love what you’ve done. Your blog is so nice. Kathi
Hey Ms. Rhoda. sorry I’ve been in hiding for so long…life has been pretty crazy around here. With a family of 6 I never know what’s gonna happen from day to day. Anyhoo…just wanted to say hi and tell you that I LOVE this idea. I have mod podged many things in my day, but why have I never done this? I have 48,000 of those magazine things laying around not being used because they don’t match my decor anymore. Now I know just what to do with them.
thanks ~ Amanda
As soon as I saw the title of this post, I had to read it cuz I know you are the queen of creativity when it comes to decoupage. And you didn’t disappoint; your holders turned out just beautifully! I tear out the articles I like and throw out the magazines as soon as I’ve read them. I’m allergic to paper, especially brown paper, cardboard and old paper. I get really nasty hives and my eyeballs get really itchy. So I minimize it as best I can by just cutting out the occasional article. I have a file for inspirational articles and notebook with dividers for decorating inspiration pics. Makes it so easy to find anything I want.
I’m thinking you might want to keep some of those magazines, though; they could be collectors’ items in the future with so many mags closing.
What a great makeover for magazine storage.
I don’t go back and read my magazines either. I do keep my cooks illustrated. Any of my cooking mags I write the page number on the cover of the recipes I would like to try.
Other magazines I just rip out the pages that interest me.
Those are brilliant! I love what you created from almost nothing.
I have a magazine problem, especially decorating and food magazines. There should be a magazine version of AA.
I keep special magazines (the few old Victoria’s I own and other favorites) in two vintage suitcases stacked in my family room.
These are wonderful. I sent this to my daughter the school teacher, she loved them too and will be making a few for herself. thanks
Hi Rhoda~
This is a great idea & they are adorable. I actually do go back & read magazines for inspiration~ but since my collection got out of control I've been tearing out the pages and putting them in my 'inspiration' binder.
I'll be back for a visit soon~ Your blog is amazing!
J.
I’ve been enthralled by the decoupage technique for some time now and all I have to say is that it gives one a number of possibilities when it comes to creating or decorating things.
Your magazine holders are a great idea! I just hope I am able to find cardboard ones…