What can your do with a soup can, curtain hooks, those pesky advertising inserts from magazines, and a few beads?
You will soon find out.
One of my favorite blogs is Blah-to-TADA.blogspot.com. Claire writes for a newspaper and was asked to write a column about how you could take stuff you would normally throw out and make something desirable from it. Her blog was inspired by her newspaper column. Her tag line – a crafty recycling blog. Her posts are presented in such a simple effective format - only a few photos and text. Before is Blah and after TADA. Check out what she did with a Whole Foods bag. You will be inspired. Her Bag of Tricks post, here
This is my attempt at creating a Blah-to-TADA post. Look back at the photo above.
Cut advertising insert to the height of the can. Roll tightly around a pencil and hot glue edge down. Remove pencil.
Make a bunch so you have a pile like this.
Put a line of hot glue on the seam edge of each rolled tube and attach to the can, making sure to keep each roll straight .
Put a bead on each curtain hook.
Push each hook between two tubes along the top edge of the can.
TADA!
I also hot glued big beads to the bottom as decorative feet. For the bigger can I used an old calendar to make the tubes.
Claire, and anyone familiar with Blah to TADA, How did I do?
I am linking this post to:
Strut Your Stuff at Somewhat Simple
Penny Pinching Party – The Thrifty Home
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This is so cool! I would have never thought of it. How cute is that?!
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WHAT????
This is awesome! I love it!
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How creative and adorable!!!
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SHUT. UP.!!!!!!!!!!! I loooooooove that!!!!!!
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Pure genious! it’s like your on Survivor …for crafters!
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Oh, these are fantastic! I am always looking for cute (nearly free!) storage ideas!!!
We have a friday fun finds party- if you’re interested, we’d love if you’d link up tomorrow! :)
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Hi Diane! I LOVE your blog :) Thanks for featuring me on your blog…I’m honored(blush)! This project is totally TADA! Happy crafting!
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Very creative. How do you come up with it??? Very, very cute!
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Hi Megan – My mom was very creative and always coming up with clever ideas when I was growing up. I remember going to crafts shows and church bazzaars with her all the time to see what people had made. It fascinated me and still does. Coming up with ideas is is just how my brain is wired.
Thanks everyone for all the nice comments.
Diane
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The can looks so pretty! Good job! I’ll have to check out the blog Blah to TADA as well – such a great concept. Thanks for the inspiration :)
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ooooh, I like this. I love how you can hang the scissors and stuff on the side hooks too!
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Who would have thunk it. Fun project.
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My favorite part of this project is that you can hang things on the hooks- making things easy to find and reach.
Diane
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That is awesome! I use tons of cans for each of my 4 kiddies things. This is going to be our weekend project. Thank you so much for sharing.
(p.s.) Stopping by from SITS!
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Totally great!! I love green crafts…I make them too.
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FANTASTIC!!! They look so cool!!
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Those are just great! I love finding ways to repurpose things. Fun post and great blog. Thanks for visiting me today.
Have a great weekend.
T
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That is great! I love it! Who would think you could do that with inserts?
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I love it! I especially love how you used those pesky inserts. Soooo cute.
Happy sits saturday sharefest!
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Very cool! Thanks for stopping by my blog, glad to meet you! Love your catch all so much!
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Cool. Clearly I’d want you in my blog tribe!
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I love this, such a great repurposing idea!
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