A Little Girl Jewelry Box is a must for Tootsie’s bedroom makeover. She has a ton of jewelry to coordinate with all her dress up costumes and her mama she needs a place for store it that isn’t in the bottom of her Dress Up Box.
The color theme for Tootsie’s Big Girl Bedroom Makeover includes a variety pinks, soft greens, and baby blues.
But while this deep purple and black Jewelry Box was functional, all those cheetah spots and zebra stripes were so not working with the sweet little girl vibe I am going for.
Krylon spray paint to the rescue! Or so I thought.
Yes, I prepped the entire jewelry box by giving it a light sanding with low grit sandpaper. But as you can see the spray paint did not adhere correctly. Especially over the strips and spots.
What a mess! Honey said to throw it away.
Are you kidding! This is a fabulous $5 piece of laminate! No way I’m throwing it out!
This DIY disaster was nothing that a little scrapbook paper, yarn, and buttons can’t fix. Don’t forget my new super hero: Washi Tape!
To conceal the horrible spray paint job, the top of the jewelry box and the front of each drawer was covered in patterned scrapbook paper. This is the same paper used to create the Paper Pinwheels (totally easy wall art) for above Tootsie’s dresser.
The trim work around the half spray painted knob was a tad sloppy. So I had to come up with a way to cover the mess.
The plastic knobs refused to pop off easily. To hide the raggedy trim job and redo the knobs, I wrapped them with soft pink yarn then topped each with two colorful buttons. Everything was secured with hot glue ~ be careful!
The last step was to add more pattern with washi tape. Just by covering the edges of the jewelry box’s top and drawers cleaned up the not so straight paper cuts.
This was the first time I had ever used washi tape and I am completely hooked! This colorful, slightly tacky tape is so easy to work with. Let the washi tape collection begin!
See how the washi tape was wrapped the edges of the jewelry box’s top? Look at that sweet, little bluebird!
Perfect storage of all Tootsie’s bracelets, rings, and little bows!
The colors and patterns coordinate with the Gallery Wall of family portraits.
The moral of this Upcycled Jewelry Box is never, ever through away a piece because the look doesn’t work in your space. This storage piece went from Va-va-voom Deep Purple Cheetah and Zebra to Pinkalious Sweetness!
Your comments totally make my day! They give me huge motivation to keep creating and having fun with my 3 Little Greenwoods!
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This is so adorable! I need to make one for my niece.
Thanks so much for your sweet comment about my Little Girl Jewelry Box! It is so stinking cute! Love those new shoes you posted about! I can’t wait for SPRING!
Awesome jewelry box Ashley! I love especially the way you perked up the knobs and the washi tape….which I also have never used..yet!
Thanks so much Aunt Carol! The jewelry box was one of those projects that turned out WAY better than what I thought it would. It’s so cute I haven’t let Tootsie touch it yet!
SOOOOO CUTE!!! Love it!!
Hey Amberly! So happy you like my Upcycled Little Girl’s Jewelry Box! I’d love for you to follow the blog so you don’t miss a post. 😉
I love it! What a creative makeover. And the washi tape? I have never heard of it, but you have certainly inspired me to try it out. Pinning!
Oh I am loving the washi tape! I found it near the scrapbook paper aisle at Hobby Lobby. It’s a little pricey but so fun to work with!
This turned out quite nicely! Awesome save!
Thanks Heather! The jewelry box is so cute I haven’t let her touch it. 😉
Well you rocked this. So happy you didn’t get discouraged with the spray paint snafu. Thank you for sharing your sweet blog at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop ♥
Aww! You are too sweet! the Upcycled Little Girl’s Jewelry Box did turn out WAY better than I first thought! Thanks so your sweet comment!
What a super job you did, it looks great and what a lovely room bet she just loves it, what little girl wouldn’t?
Maria Kitching
Thanks, Maria! Tootsie does love her room. Especially the “Magic Mirror” I just painted!
Super cute and girly! This will need to go in the dress up station 🙂
I know! It is so much fun to use the same decorating elements through out her bedroom!
This is adorable! This would be great for all of my toddler’s hair accessories. Love that you included a spray paint fail too. It’s nice when people keep it real! 🙂
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Yes! The sweet little jewelry box would be a wonderful place for all those hair bows!
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Okay thank GOD! I thought I was the only one who had that issue with spray paint. What the heck? Why does it do that? I’m thinking it might be the brand??? I also thought maybe it was too cold outside where I was spraying? I was even blaming myself – user error? Regardless, you came up with a great solution! Our guest co-host Becky picked you as her pick for the Link It or Lump It Feature this week! Come on over on Sunday to check it out.
Girl please! I have ruined many a project with my horrible spray painting abilities! So excited to be featured on Link It or Lump It!
This is adorable, I love how you used yarn around the knobs. Pinned to the party board. Thanks for sharing it with us last week! This week’s party is live and I would love to see more of what you’ve been up to! 🙂
I love the yarn around the drawer knobs too! I had to cover those ugly things up with something and couldn’t be happier with how the entire Little Girl’s Jewelry Box turned out!
Very sweet Ashley. If I were a little girl I would be over the top thrilled. Great makeover and great save!!
Thanks for linking up your pinkalicious jewelry box at Project Inspire{d}!!
What a great save I don’t think it would have look half as nice as it does if the spray paint would have covered
the spots and strips. You have inspired me to use scrapbook paper on my next fail makeover project. I might
go looking for a jewelry box to makeover for me, after all different colors different papers can make a nice jewelry box for an adult.
I love scrapbook paper! It gives such a punch of color for so little money! Thank you so much for your sweet comment. I would love for you to follow along!