Cute Can Container Re-Do

I use Pirouette cookies a lot in my birthday cakes' decor.  So the container gets empty really fast..."oh dang this one is broken can't use it on the cake, guess I'll have to eat it"..."one for the cake, one for me, one for the cake, two for me"   you get the idea...but I can't throw them away....after all they are perfectly good containers....so I kept them around trying to figure out what I was going to do with them...I thought about sand blasting the factory design off of them...but I don't have a sand blaster AND they are really expensive to rent AND cost a lot to buy....I didn't think that spray paint would stick...BUT IT DID!!

Years ago I spray painted a desk and bunk beds white (I don't remember why I spray painted them-- it made sense at the time...maybe one day soon I will get pics of them on here) so I have LOTS of white spray paint left over...well not so much now...this project finished off a can and worked on another....

Step 1: After emptying tasty treat from can...

Step 2:  spray paint (it took me at least two coats)

Step 3:  trace a design (I traced different sized buttons)  if you have a steadier hand than I you can skip this step.

Step 4:  Paint your design

As you can see I REALLY like Pirouette cookies.

Scout Camp Duty Roster

My husband has been the scout master of our ward troop for the last FOUR years.  about three years ago (his first going to camp as a leader) I helped him by making a duty roster for the boys...

I just took an old piece of plywood (that had been laying around for years), some random spray paint, and tape.  I had the green spray paint left over from one of my sons pinewood derby cars (the fish) so I sprayed both sides of the board (obviously letting one side dry before the other side was painted).  Then I took some masking tape and taped off some lines (I think I used some paper too to avoid over spray) and painted in the white lines.

The first year we did this I found some clearance wooden tags.  I didn't realize that they were clearance until the 2nd year when I went back to the craft store to get more.  They were clearance because they were Christmas ornament leftovers.  This year I found some round wooden circles at the ONE and ONLY craft store in my town--I would think that a town with a population over 75,000 would have more than one craft store but whatever...

Anywho...

I drilled a hole in the top and have a friend who sells vinyl make me up some names and stuff to apply on the circles.  This year I separated the boys up a bit...the older boys circles stayed natural, the younger boys got a coat of white paint, and the leaders/adults got to be true blue.  This is how weird I am...in the past I have made the boys two sets...one set had the scout saying of "Do A Good Turn Daily" on the back and the other set would have the camp motto--one year it was "Eager to Soar".  Well this year when I called the scout office to find out the motto they told me that there wasn't one.  What up?!  Worked out anyways cuz with 11 boys and 5 adults going I couldn't afford to buy that many extra wooden circles.