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Make it Monday: Up-cycled Pencil Pots

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Instead of buying some, thought I’d make them. On my messy desk…

I got two Burt’s Bees gift sets in the sales and as I was throwing the tubes into the cardboard recycling box I suddenly realised that they’d make pretty decent pen pots with a bit of cosmetic cover up. So I decided that was what I was going to do.

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I decided to decorate them in the style of the previous pots I up-cycled. The blog post for which can be found HERE.

For the string wrapped one I put 4 strips of wide double sided sticky tape from top to bottom then a strip around the top edge and the bottom edge (or 4 small strips top and bottom – between the vertical strips…) I peeled the bottom strips covers off but only folded up the vertical ones and then proceeded to wrap string around the tub – constantly holding it tight so it wouldn’t sag and pressing it into the double sided sticky tape when applicable.

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I then glued a strip of lace to the top to make it look a little fancier. I used cosmic shimmer glue – a little goes a long way and I put a line at the top and then every so often I’d dab some across and down one of the points to give it a little added security.

For the next one I pulled my roll of burlap out and wrapped it around twice, to hide the writing. The first layer was stuck with double sided sticky tape – the same as the string but, but the second received a line of glue at the top and random squiggles down. It was too long so once it was stuck I cut off the extra and added glue to stop it fraying any further, because it had started to.

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I then stuck a different strip of lace to the bottom – the same way I stuck the last one – to hide the frayed ends and I stuck on a burlap rose that I had. I stuck it on off centre, but it just makes it looks like it’s off centre in the picture….

For the third one, I painted it a ‘soft truffle’ colour from my collection of paint samples then I added a strip of wide lace type stuff that I had. I did this the same as the burlap and string – with the sticky tape, but I’d recommend doing it with glue as the tape shines through the holes in the lace.

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I painted it to hide the letters and only wrapped the lace around once. It started and ended on a strip of the tape and I lined them up so that the pattern flowed. I then cut off the excess because it was too big like the burlap. I didn’t glue the ends, just pressed them into the tape and then I was done.

I can’t decide what to do with the last one. I’ve recently learnt to crochet, so maybe I’ll make one of those jar covers or cover it in buttons or something?

CONCLUSION:

That was a brilliant idea. I’ve been casing pen pots with the idea I need some more. Now I have 3 (possibly 4) with no cost what so ever! Brilliant.

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