Party cutlery holder

Last week I spent lots of time on my son's graduation--cleaning the house, preparing for guests, looking at baby pictures, crying. You know. The mom thing.

One thing I wanted for his graduation party (and for other parties, for that matter) was some kind of cutlery tray--something to hold plastic forks and spoons. Seems like most of our entertaining is of the casual variety--not a lot of sterling-silver-cutlery parties here. But plastic cutlery won't just lie there nicely on the table; it needs to be corralled.

My budget for this: $0.00. My money needed to go for other things. The cutlery tray was just something that I wanted.

Here's what I came up with.

I rescued this from the trash.



I thought about covering it with colorful paper, but then I decided to keep it neutral so that I could change it up at will, so I was going to cover it with brown kraft paper.

Then I realized that I had a can of spray paint was pretty much the color of kraft paper: "Nutmeg" by Rustoleum. So I spent about 60 seconds spray painting it.

Then I added a green ribbon (for my son's school colors) and some graduation scrapbooking stickers I had picked up. And here's what I ended up with:



And for my next party, I can change out the ribbon and stickers. . .or even leave it plain. Might look cool with just a few strands of raffia tied around it.

Like it? I love it! And it did its job really well. Those plastic forks and spoons never had it so good.

Shared with Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps on the Porch and with Kim's Trash to Treasure Tuesday at Reinvented