Crafty: Upgraded Bamboo Trays

This post is one of two craft-related posts that are long overdue…back when Hurricane Irene came through I took advantage of the rainy day to sit inside and start a bunch of crafts. Most of them I’ve even finished — a huge accomplishment since most of my projects generally end up in craft-purgatory for ~~years~~ quite a while.

The first of the hurricane crafts: upgraded bamboo trays.

I’d been wanting some trays to cart stuff around on. I like to sit on the porch or the couch with some crackers and hummus, a book, and a glass of wine, but I’m lazy and get annoyed carrying things around.

I found these useful, but ugly, trays at Goodwill:

So, I painted them white:

Then traced out the inside onto a piece of scrap paper:

Then I traced the scrap paper shape onto some oil cloth and cut that out to line the tray with. I must not have done a very good job though because I had to trim quite a bit off. As I said, I’m lazy, so this step was sort of tedious.