SISTERKINS: My Key Rack

Keys KEYS.....where are my keys????? Sound familiar? It sure is a common sound here. Mostly me. Hopefully I have come up with a solution......well if I put my keys on it when I come home.....that's the solution. Anyways, I actually saw this on a great blog:

Meridian Road

and instantly fell in love with it. I knew if I had one, that I would never yell "Keys" again. They would always be there because something so beautiful would put my keys in a trance, and they would be drawn to the hook. Yes! That sounds right. So I went to my scrap wood again, and found some OSB. Man I am going to run out of scraps with all these scrap blogs.. I snuck outside cuz hubby was sick and I felt bad for leaving him in the house alone...... and started to cut up some wood.

I fired up the sander and sanded and sanded and sanded. I got my trusty glue and clamps and went to work.

Back into the house and hubby didn't even know I was gone. Sleep is a powerful thing. I laid out my plastic and painted it pretty with some homemade chalk paint CLICK HERE for the tutorial... I think I put on 3 coats. This picture shows the first coat.

I let it dry for about 1 hour and then quietly tiptoed out to the shop again.
I sanded the edges......OH busted....Hubby came out to see what I was up to.....Poor guy.

Back into the house for us. I used my antique medium that I don't really care for and some carnauba wax. I didn`t really mind it this time, but I think I will still get some burnt umber oil paint for next time. Next step was to gather up my key supplies. I have been thinking about this for about months, so I was on the hunt. I found my first prey at Michael's; the keys. They only had three left so I bought them all. They were $1.50 each. I attached them with epoxy.

I printed some numbers from my word program on the computer and cut them out.

I glued them onto the back of some tags I found at the dollar store. I used four packages " $1.00 each.

The cup hooks were purchased at Home Depot and cost $3.60 for all. I had to paint them cuz the brass was too shiny.

That was my total cost. $12.10 The wood was scrap and the wax and paint were from other projects. I assembled everything

and this is what I ended up with. I am pretty happy with it, although it was very different from my inspiration key rack . I found a stud in the porch....no haha... a wooden stud and measured and screwed my new key holder to the wall. Lets see if it works and puts my keys into a deep trance.