New Set of Pots

Over on Lots to Do the Challenge this week is to 'Alter' something.  On Saturday my son gave me a container that had held a bottle of whisky he got bought last Christmas.  "Mum do you want this?" he asked.  I hesitated as I still had one he had given me the year before but pleased that he had saved it for me I took it.

Yesterday I decided to make a new container for my most used things that I like to keep at my right hand, usually in a couple of tubs, but so full that they it can be hard to find just what I want.  So I hit on the idea of cutting the container down.  Didn't take a photograph of it before I started altering it so balanced the three sections (cut with the bread knife LOL) on top of one another for this photograph.

Then I covered them with old wallpaper (vinyl kind for strength and durability)

Next I decorated them.  At first they were going to have pictures of Frida Kahlo on them but that meant stamping and I didn't know what to put with them to fill up.  So the idea went to French things - adverts, perfume bottles etc. Didn't have enough!  So I spied some wrapping paper with a nice finish and I began tearing.  Another day you will see I have been in a "ripping mood".

  Each one was decorated with the torn bits.

 All the way around each one

Until the whole thing was done, stuck together with red liner tape and now it holds my stuff.

Most used tools (need them handy)

Journal Painting Brushes

Journal Pens

So this can be my entry for the LTD Challenge just in case I do not get around to doing anything with stamping on it.  Not that you have to - just a pet thing of mine (like to include stamping).

I used the lid on the bottom of one of the cylinders (yes, they are cylinders, just the angle of the photographs), one already had a base and the other I cut a circle from Mountboard (thanks Cynthia and Sue), covered it with the same wallpaper slightly larger, cut the edges like you do for lining a cake tin and put it in.  Works just fine!