Wednesday, January 4, 2012

DIY Day

Tea boxes. Do you ever get annoyed with how they just clutter up your cupboards with random half filled boxes and the occasional loose tea bag that wanders around? You can never seem to find the teas you want because they are never where you put them last. Well leave it to me to attempt and fix this problem. We are a huge Tazo Tea drinking family. So we have lots of the Tazo Tea tins that end up just being thrown away once we are done with them. Not any more.

I recently have been seeing a lot of people doing stuff with the chalkboard paint. If you haven't heard about it its very cool. You can write on it with chalk and it rubs write off. *light bulb* Why not use the chalk board paint to re-purpose my Tazo tins into Tea tins!
Valspar makes a chalkboard paint and I found it to be AMAZING!!!!
Materials Required




The tin painted and waiting to dry off.

Steps:
  1. Prepare your work area. Lay some newspaper down so as not to get the paint anywhere.
  2. With your masking tape, tape around the edges of the label. This will ensure that you don't get any paint the spots you don't want it.
  3. grab your brush and start painting it.
  4. The Finished Project.
Mine took about 15mins to dry completely. Now you can either use chalk or paint pens on the new tin. I am using the paint pens because they look a little better and are a tad more permanent. To remove the paint pens from your tin, get an alcohol wipe and wipe the paint pens off. Its perfect!

Side Note:
Thanks Aunt K for sending the delicious cookies!!!! They tasted so yummy, and looked so good in the pictures! :)

Aunt K's Cookies

21 comments:

Mary P. said...

I love this! You should save the extra tins for your sister that lives out of state so she can use them for her tea collection! ;)

Sara Rose said...

This is a brilliant idea!

Anonymous said...

That's terrific! I'm itching to try this myself.

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Sweet! That's so amazing. Love it.

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Mike Adams said...

Agree with Sara, this is a great idea

Jane Riley said...

great idea! thanks

Wendy said...

Cute. I have some chalkboard paint from a old project - I should make use of those great tins too - and those cookies do look fantastic!

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