My Crafty Craft-Table Cachepot – Trash to Treasure Tin Can
What can you do with a soup can, curtain hooks, those pesky advertising inserts from magazines, and a few beads? You will soon find out. I call it my Trash to Treasure Tin Can.
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”.
This is my attempt at creating a “Blah-to-TADA” post.
How to Make a Decorative Cache Post Using a Tin Can
- 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.
2. 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.
3. Put a bead on each curtain hook.
4. Push each hook between two tubes along the top edge of the can.
5. 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.
For more DIY Organizing tips check out my Organization Gallery.
Would you like to save this post?
Enter your email below and I’ll send it to you!