DIY: Vintage Dice Cup Vases {Design*Sponge}
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My latest Design*Sponge project posted today over on Design*Sponge. When I went to the sawmill to get wood for these shelves, I had him saw off a disc from a trunk too. Originally I had something different in mind for the disc, but surprise surprise I changed my mind.
And like always I am going to share some ‘behind the scenes’ pictures here.
In my attempt to get a photo of the supplies my daughter wasn’t too fond of me telling her “no”. I scored these retro Yahtzee dice cups at a local flea market for $1.00. I wanted to be able to display them in a functional, but decorative way. Probably not a project for everyone’s taste, but I like it. FireCracker did not like me taking the pipe clamps away. Obviously.
My entertainment while working on putting it all together. He’s pretty much awesome.
Do you notice a difference in the version below and the one I shared first?
The first go round of this project I didn’t paint the wood. Chris came home and told me it looked very rustic….like it belonged in a cabin in the woods. Since rustic isn’t so much my taste I painted it to remedy that look a bit. That also meant I had to reshoot all the tutorial pictures. Bummer.