More Accomplishments! A Toilet Paper Holder!

I doubt I've mentioned how small our house is seems.  The kitchen is the size of a 2x4. If you open the dishwasher there is just enough room to stand in front of the sink.  Not nearly enough room to turn and put the dishes in the dishwasher, though.  Needless to say, there's never enough storage!  We don't have a "utility" closet to store brooms and such.  The vacuum is shoved in the front hall closet, with the 4 coats that fit in there.  The broom, mops, and dustpans are stored in the 1/2 bath that's sort of in the kitchen.  We have a wall thing-y over the toilet where I store a first aid kit (come on!  if I left it in the upstairs bath it would never get used!), a small toothbrush/toothpaste (I'm sometimes too lazy to walk upstairs to do that task) and couple rolls of toilet paper...but it is ALWAYS running out!  Plus, it's totally inconvenient when you are using the toilet when you realize the TP is out!

The other day I was cruising around Pinterest and I found this:

from etsy seller vijako

The $45 price tag was a little out of my bathroom budget, but I had the perfect fabric in the basement that was crying, "use me, use me!"  So I did!

Our downstairs bathroom is decorated with sailboats.  Just some prints that we've collected over the years, and this time, in this house, they ended up in the bathroom!  So I thought this fabric fit in pretty well :)

Haha...looking at those two pics side by side, I guess I should tie mine up higher?  (UPDATE:  ok, I did try tying mine higher and while it looks much nicer, it's not so functional!  the "in use" roll rubs on the holder and it's hard to get the TP out!  So hanging down is the way it stays!)Now there are two rolls IMMEDIATELY available.  And a couple more hidden away.

This was a pretty easy little project!  Two rectangles of fabric (one print, one white for liner).  I think mine were 35"x5.5".  Pinned wrong sides, sewed the long sides (don't sew the short sides if you are going to put ties on it!  Top stich.  Then add bias tape (I used 22.5" long (half the width of my 44"/45" fabric) by 1" wide (for ~1/4" bias tape), some beads and knot the ends.  The hardest part of this project was getting those beads on there!

I like it!  And I finished something.  yay!