After making a tuna salad for lunch, I was washing up and was rinsing out the cans of tuna, peas, and corn to put them in the recycling bin. My trash bin was a little full, well let us say, „slightly“ over-flowing (to put it mildly :-O). Sooo… I just washed the cans out and let them dry on the kitchen counter.

The next day I decided to make chili for lunch, and yet another can sat on my counter „waiting“ to be thrown out…

I removed the paper labels unconsciously as I spoke to my girlfriend on the phone …

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I picked, picked and picked some more at the stringy glue until it stuck no more…

All of a sudden.these small silver aluminum cans started to look pretty interesting..hmmm….

After all, I had invested already 10 whole minutes cleaning them…I couldn’t just discard them, now could I ? 😀

Well, instead of landing in the garage with the other recyclable stuff, these little silver beauties did finally end up on the my craft table!

Within minutes they were dressed in some gorgeous design paper and adorned with ribbons…

I decided to attach them together with Velcro and have found a prominent place on my desk!

What pleasure it is to find a way to re-love items which you have just laying around your house! YAY! Creativity is in the air! My dear friend Maggie Quack has also some beautiful re-loved items for school kids on her blog this month. Take a peek maggiequack.de

Hope you have a nice day!

Cynthia „Stempelwalküre“