My Crafty Craft-Table Cachepot

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.

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Tagged as: Magazine inserts, Recycled Craft Projects, Tin Can Crafts