How to Make a DIY Drink Holder
I wish my arms were twice as long so that I could reach behind and pat myself on the back! HA
I know… pride is sinful, but sometimes you create something that makes you want to raise your Power Tools Prowess flag and wave that mug in the air like you just don’t care!
And this is one of those moments. That’s how I feel about this DIY drink holder (with a snacks compartment) that I made this weekend, guys!
RYOBI Nation must like me because they asked me to submit monthly projects to RYOBI Nation, which is an awesome place to get woodworking and building project ideas.
September’s theme is FANtastic Sports so I wanted to create something that I’d love to personally use.
Lately I’ve been using a lot more power tools and doing more building projects, so I was stoked to get started (but it’s still hard to maneuver around the old baby crib and other junk in there! LOL
I pulled together my materials as best as I could and made a DIY drink holder!
How cool is this for hosting game nights and parties at your house?!
(You’ll have to overlook the shots with empty root beer bottles… Sometimes DIY is just like that when you need a pretty picture!)
🙂
I can’t wait to show you how I made this and why this was such an important project for me (along with the awesome layering of stain I did to make this DIY drink holder look a bit weathered)!
(Let’s just say the learning curve was steep, y’all!)
How to Make This DIY Drink Holder
(Detailed blog post coming soon!)
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I would start with making shadow boxes for multimedia projects because I’m not very experienced but would love to build more.
Luv your ideas! And that drink holder is awesome!! I need and would use the saw to build my workshop and workbench. Then I would start making picture frames for my friends and family since I love photography almost as much as woodworking..
I would redo the trim around the base of the porch columns first and then I might go nuts and put up some chair rail in my kitchen and if that turned out well enough I would make something pretty around the bottom of my dining room. We have a miter box that you use with a manual saw but it’s not nearly as nifty as this Ryobi so I’ll cross my fingers and hope I win!
THRIFT DIVA – YOU ROCK! LOVE THOSE INNOVATIVE IDEAS YOU COME UP WITH
USING THRIFT MATERIALS!! HOPE YOU CAN COME UP WITH A PROJECT USING
BEACH ROCKS OR ANY STONE MATERIAL! LOVE THE TILE TABLE IDEA TOO!
Looove it. Great for kids too.
Fun snack & drink holder! Would love saw to work on built in bookcases in our living room. Currently I ask my father in law for help in projects but would love to have my own tools to create projects!
Oh, I would love that saw! Where to start? Making rustic wood picture frames from old fence boards, of which I have plenty! Replacing the broken casing (done by my husband about 10 years ago) around my son’s closet and replacing the baseboard around his floor (which my husband also removed about 10 years ago!). Also adding quarter round trim along his baseboard, as a gap remains between the trim and the floor from when my husband put hardwood flooring in his room. Our staircase also remains partially untrimmed (from when my husband did some stair work, about 10 years ago!). Seeing a pattern, here??
I love your drink holder! Your posts always make me feel like I can do some projects that may have been once above my capabilities. I have been a stay at home mom who has fibromyalgia. Our youngest child is 11 years old. Due to the central nervous system disease I was diagnosed with about 6 years ago, have had to learn to take my life on differently than before. At begining of this year, I had an epiphany. My son is very independent,I was begining to feel as though going back to my pre-chikd occupatoon of sales was not an option for me. The lonh hours sitting would be detrimental to my condition. Tjen one day, I realized that making and creating was something I put to the side due to lots of things. Then I thought…if I could collect supplies like old wood boards,pallets, thrift store items to upcycle,some art supplies and some old tools…then I could compike finished projects like vintage looking signs,decoupaged items, make frames for rustic signs etc. I was so excited that you would of thought I won the life lottery! I figured out to do something that excites me and that could ebentually provide some income to my family. I have spen my time over the last few months thrifting, going to yard sales and stopping for found treasured along the road like old,weathered wood. It has been a slowprocess because I never had a small chunk of money at any one time to purchase things I needed, but were not free on trash day. That’s what I have been doing..slowly but surely, getting my everything together,but knowing it would be a snails begining. I have second haf yatd sale items for tools. The small handsaw I have is rusty, but works with lots of elbow grease and repetive arm motion. Fibromyalgia is like having a constant hinderance. To move normally and as efficiently and quickly as I once did, niw no longer. I use to be the person who was able to do more in fours of hard work then others did all week. So, once I adjusted to having to do things differently,with breaks and a differen pace which is a shadow of who I use to be,I was all set. My husband is a hardworking man. However, the idea of a saw with drilling capabilites is out of our reach financually for a while.
Havng this wonderful Ryobi power tool would decrease my activity induced pain by the power portion of the sae and drill assisting me in increased production in less time. The hand saw causing me increased pain because of aggressive motion again and again in order to complete cutting of boards and drlling. It would allow me to do what I realize is a passion and do it in a way that helps me verses causes me extreme pain. Life would be so much easier and cause less “broken” days and more happy, productive days. My son has never known me to be anything but his mom with fibromyalgia. I want to show him, and myself, that if there is a will,there is a way. He can see physical results of my efforts through completed projects thst willend up being bought craft shows sooner than later. I will be able to say “I can” longer,instead of “I can’t,” from sawing sign wood and boards. Having a Ryobi power tool would literally be just like a gift of energy and time for me by the meer ability to do my projects in a manner that absolutely helps me….verses causing pain and feeling like I have been in a car accident after using non power tools, like a handsaw. I always look forward to your posts, your ” can do” positive attutude and watching your projects in progress and methods you use to find, puck and give life to thrift store finds!!!
Hey, Katherine! Serena here! I’m soooo sorry I am just now seeing your comment! This was from months and months and months ago, and I’m sorry I didn’t see it until now! I wanted to let you know that I admire your tenacious spirit! I’m sure that fibromyalgia has taken a lot from you. But to hear you talk about the creative things that you’d like to do with the things you’re finding at thrift stores and roadside, despite your paint, is inspiring! I really hope you’ve been able to follow through and feel well enough to tackle some of these projects since you had left this message! I’m sorry you weren’t the winner, but I hope that you’ve been able to get a miter saw since that time! Please write back and let me know how you’re doing!!! And the wonderful things you’ve been creating! 🙂
Serena
This would go perfect on my new bar cart table that I unearthed from our shed – left by last people who owned the house. I spray painted it teal and orange and put it on the deck! Its adorable! You are my inspiration! The saw would be a dream come true as I want to start building things not just PAINT things. Time to ramp er up!
I love this idea! What I love even more is that inspires me! How about a plant holder? Utensil caddy? Desk organizer? …..