Trash to treasure

I am re~visting this blog post today from September and I am linking up with  
The Lettered Cottage for Favorites of 2009
This was my favorite project of 2009

Even now at the end of December I use this container daily and it is holding up great!

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And now here is the original post

Bought some cream puffs and eclairs for a dinner we went to the other night

I could not bear to toss the containers in the recycle bin

They are a heavy plastic with a nice fitting lid

I decided to make a box for each of us for those things that you don't use too often but still take up space and end up getting lost if not put away properly

Things for the bathroom... like nail clippers and lens cloths and foot soak and shoe shine stuff and ...

I covered the label with gray scrapbook paper and cut trim from black grosgrain ribbon to trim the sides where the paper shows

I glued the paper and the ribbon (I also heat sealed the ribbon edge)

I then trimmed out the side where the expiration date is on the box

(not sure why it looks bumpy in the pic... it actually is not)

So then with my cricut I cut vinyl lowercase letters

r for him

p for me

and attached them to the lid

Then I filled them with goodies

one for him and one for me!

They are going to look so cute on our linen closet shelf!