I’ve probably walked past old rotating poker chip trays a hundred times while thrifting, never once giving them thought until last week after I’d purchased a new set of Prismacolor colored pencils. I found two racks at the same thrift store, together for under $10.
I brought them home, and got to work by removing the handle hardware and gluing a poker chip into the open bottom of each stack-rack to close up the thumb holes. 
I gave each tray a few coats of black spray paint and finished off the open sides on one with some vintage Sorry playing cards. For the other I cut pieces from an old scrapbook of daily verses glued to cardstock. I curved each piece a bit before sliding into place.
I sprayed the handle hardware with clear acrylic paint and replaced each to its tray.
I filled one tray with my new pencils and the other with my Sharpie markers. 
These are just perfect for my little studio and with each having a handle, easy to tote into the house or anywhere I feel like working.
YOU ARE SO CLEVER!! Love it! Thanks for the
That is so clever! Thanks!
Clever is the only word for this! Great idea!
I love your very clever idea! You always come up with such wonderful repurposing ideas. TFS
Genius! Also good for the sewing room for scissors and other doodads.
Genius!
Hi Cathe-
You are so CLEVER!!!! What a colorful, ingenious way to repurpose.
My best- Diane
Ok, You officially win the cleverest idea I have seen in a long time, brilliant!
Carol
these are fantastic! great job envisioning these as something completely different!
Thanks for sharing your ever so clever creation! Can’t wait to go thrifting and get one of these!
I’m having Sharpie envy at the mere sight of this fabulous project. I so need to make one of these for the colored pencils scattered across the house.
Cathe ~ You Always Amaze Me…. Your Mind is a Maze
of Creative Wonder!
Love this idea! I have so many pens, markers, paint brushes, etc. Perfect solution!
What a great idea! Thanks so much for sharing it.
Cathe my dear you are amazing. A vertible fire hose of ideas flooding forth. This is brilliant to repurpose those super affordable poker chip trays. Holly Jolly to you…
I love this idea. thanks for sharing
OH this is such a GREAT idea~ thanks so much for sharing it and for the inspiration!
This is such a good idea.
You are soooooooooo beyond brilliant! What a great way to re-pupose those. I too have passed up so many of them, never really giving them a second thought…..mind if I “steal” your idea for my own studio?
Thanks for sharing!
This is a such wonderful idea. I absolutely love it. Thanks for sharing.
Oh my goodness! You just changed my world. I don’t think I can look at anything as “useless junk” anymore. Great post. Thanks for sharing your creativity!
What an excellent idea! And beautifully done.
Have a great Sunday!
Clever, clever, clever – as always!
brilliant!
those are so cute, who’d have thunk?
Cathe, saw your entry on Prismacolor website. Love this idea! I am a fan! (:-)) Nice site here, I have bookmarked it. See you again on the Prisma site.
Yeah, you’re pretty much a genius.
Love this idea! It’s so much fun to see things find a new life.
This is brilliant. I’ve also seen spice jars used in poker chip holders, perfect for brads, snaps or eyelets.
OMG…that is soooo brilliant! Now I’ll be on the hunt for a cool poker chip tray for my Prismacolor pencils! Thanks for sharing!
Sweet! I really do like those. I love how your mind thinks!
What a FABULOUS idea! Thanks for showing.
-Danielle
Love this idea!! Wish I had a couple of these in college for my Architectural Design studio, would have REALLY come in handy!!
Love the project! Very inventive and looks like it really works well for the pencils. Great idea!
This is a great idea! I know I’ve passed over them many times, but now I’ll watch for the chip holders.
Oooo…I think my heart just went all a flutter! Love the simplicity, practicality, and ease of it…..love, love, love it! :>
These are fantastic! They remind me of my grandparents house…grandpa had Friday night Poker with his brothers.
Awesome job as always!!!
This is a really great idea Cathe, can’t wait to go thrifting later this week. You are so ingenious. Thanks for sharing your brilliance.
That is the greatest repurpose for poker chip caddys I have ever seen!! Bravo!
What an awesome idea for colored pencils. Hugs
Be Blessed
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Do I get some brownie-points if i suggest knife and fork holder in a posh restaurant? Love it -have never seen any in Brisbane’s op shops but will know what they are if i ever do :>
thanks for the idea,,,,,i’m off to my garage right now. hopefully i haven’t sent mine to the goodwill already.
I love this idea. Never in a million years would I have thought of it. So unique, very clever!
Genius! Sure wish I had one hangin’ around the house so I could do the same thing
This is AMAZING Cathe!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to craft with you….
I absolutely love the idea ! What will you surprise us with when you use the poker chips ??????
Love this idea! I’ll be on the lookout for a poker chip holder. Many thanks for sharing!
I am going to be on the outlook for some of these. I have colored pencils and markers that would love to be housed in something like this. Thanks so much for your cleverness.
Look at you! Does your cleverness ever end? What an awesome idea. Thanks again for your awesome creativity!
Happy Holidays,
Sheila
I truly appreciate your sharing. The vintage items are so adorable! I live in eastern NC in a very small town. I collect vintage angel figurines from the 50′s and 60′s, miniatures, character ornaments and other wonderful things from simpler and more innocent bygone days. Love your blog. Sad today, due to 2 deaths in 2 days. Both were very dear to my good friends. Please pray for the Price and Parker families. May God bless all on this wonderful anniversary of our beloved Savior.
Holy cats, Woman you are a genius!!!
I’ve seen lots of plastic trays, but yours looks like it might be made of wood? Let me know if I’m on a wild goose chase looking for wooden ones! LOL
Yes, Gayle, they ARE wood!
Brilliant! Might have to go hunting this weekend!
Great idea…thank you for sharing Cathe!!!