Pintrest Project #1: Holder for Charging Cell Phone

Level of Difficulty: Piece of Cake
Cost: $
Time: 1 hr, plus overnight drying time for Mod Podge
Point of the Project: to keep all that pesky cell phone charger cord organized, easy to find and for travel.



This is a project I found posted on Pintrest that originally comes from a website called make it and love it. It was a super easy project and didn't take very long to complete.
Materials:

• a large clean empty lotion bottle- I used one of Target brands, "Johnson & Johnson" substitute baby lotion. ALSO, you want a bottle that is more flat than round so that it lays next to the wall nicely.
• Small bottle Matte finish Mod Podge
• Small brush
• Scissors- I found my kitchen shears worked best for this heavy duty cutting
• Exacto Knife
• 1/4 yard thin patterned fabric (I used calico weight)
• Pen
• Cardboard or newspaper to set underneath your project workspace so you don't get Mod Podge glue on the table, floor, etc...
• 16 oz. bottle of water or soda
• Sanding sponge (only if you can't peel off the labels)

Directions:

1. Remove the cover on the bottle. Make sure the bottle is clean inside and dry- you can wash it out with warm water and soap if not.
2. Peel off the labels on the bottle or use the sanding sponge to sand the words/pictures off of the label so they don't show through your fabric
3. Draw the shape you want to cut out on the bottle. I traced around the back label for the wall facing side of my holder and then free handed the straight line around the sides and front facing portion. Don't forget to draw a hole on the wall facing side for your outlet. I used a square shape for this since my plug in is a square shape.
4. Cut out your design. you can use the Exacto knife for the outlet hole, but I found the scissor worked for this as well.
5. Smooth out your fabric and cut it so that the piece will wrap all the way around your design and has a few inches left above the top and bottom of the design. After you have cut your fabric to cover the sides, trace the bottom of your bottle and cut out a piece of fabric for the bottom.
6. Lay out your protective layer of cardboard or newspaper on your work surface with your fabric (pattern facing down) for the sides laid out straight and with your bottle design centered with the front facing side up.
7. Get ready to use your Mod Podge! Brush Mod Podge onto the front facing side of the bottle and then turn it over onto the fabric. Add Mod Podge to the sides and wall facing side. Tightly wrap fabric around the bottle, so it's smooth and then overlap the ends of the fabric. 
8. Apply Mod Podge over the seam.
9. Cut off excess fabric on the bottom and around design of the top. Do not cut out the fabric around the outlet hole until the Mod Podge has dried overnight.
10. Apply Mod Podge over the rest of the fabric.
11. Take fabric piece for bottom and apply with Mod Podge.
12. Now let your holder dry on the bottle of water or soda overnight so that it's not touching anything
13. Use the Exacto Knife to cut the fabric away from the outlet hole.
14. Viola! Enjoy your new cell phone charging holder!