Wanted to make hubby a catch all bowl so he can stop taking up all my bar space. Hmm whats the cheapest and best way I can do it with recycled products? Paper Mache :) You can find the tutorial here at The Lulu Bird. I used a different glue recipe though. 1 c of Flour, 5 c of water. Heat in a pot and stir till it has the consistency of glue. Here's a pic, keep in mind I had at least 3 glasses of wine before I took this picture and I was on the phone with a girlfriend :)

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Again, still trying to decide how to paint it, but I'll make a post when I do. Oh yeah, I did 3 layers of glue and paper.

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This has got to be the most useful thing ever. If you can recall I covered those tin cans with fabric, well when I made those fabric boxes. Considering how many I thought I needed it was just exhausting thinking about doing all that sewing. I love to sew, I love doing it for fun, I dont want it to feel like a dam job and that what it would have felt like If I sewed as many as I wanted. Let me get to the point. I found an easier way to do it ( thank god!) The tutorial is at In My Own Style. Keep in mind if you have been saving your cardboard boxes you can make your own boxes. I personally wanted to make the boxes for storage for my pantry. I shaped the boxes to what I wanted to store and now its so much more organized in there.

These are one of my own while making it. I use bobby pins to keep the edges down. It dries within 3 minutes. Of course I also did not use white glue, I used Modge Podge :)

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