No, I NEVER Throw Anything Away!!!

You guessed it!!! I NEVER throw anything away. Well, not before it's time that is! These are Crystal Light containers. We go through a lot of them in the summer time. I find many uses for them. I keep one in my workroom, with the lid. I use it for water when I'm painting. I put the lid on it so I can come back to it a little later in the day. Plus the lid on keeps it from spilling should it get tipped over. I keep a couple of them in my laundry room. I put lint in them. Yes, dryer lint!!! I stuff the lint in it until I can't get any more in it. Then I start a new container. Once the second container is full I remove the lint from the first one. By this time it's taken on the shape of the container. I use it to light my campfires in the fall. It starts a fire so fast and safely too!! No fuels of any kind. And sometimes I come up with other ideas for them. Like this!

I decorated the outside of these and filled them with Halloween candy. I used the new decorative paper from Stampin' Up! and the "Batty for You" wheel. On the top of the can I used the bat from "Booglie Eyes." And I even gave it "booglie" eyes!!! It's a fun project but if you're looking to do them your children for school you'd better start saving them now for next year!! Or contact everyone you know and have them start saving them for you! I was hoping to get enough of the small ones but didn't so I had to use a couple of tall ones (not pictured because they're not decorated yet).

These were fairly quick to make. The bat at the top too the longest because I colored it. But this time I was smart (shocker, huh? LOL) and I made some extra in the event that I may actually obtain a container or two before it's time to give them out!

I think these would be a good seller at a craft fair. They don't cost all that much to make and you can even (and probably should) sell them empty. Hey, you could even do the "Soup Can" theme thing on these!!! Beats opening the cans on the bottom (sometimes I forget and pop the top!!! grrr). It beats washing out the cans and it beats risking getting your fingers glued together with crazy glue. Though I did read on someone's blog (sorry I don't remember who's so I can give them credit) but they used Crystal Effects to "glue" the can shut. I'm going to give that a try and let you know how that goes. I do like to have full use of all of my fingers at any given time!

Have fun with these and thanks for stopping by,
Wanda