Skill: Easy
Cost: 20p - £2.00 (depending on if you buy the tin)
Awesome: Pretty Cool
So I got a bit bored and decided to play around. I had an old long hot dog tin from the other day's barbecue which I thought would make a good holder for my incense sticks. Problem was, it looked naff, so I took the label off and gave it a good wash.
Once dried, I spray painted inside a bit with white gloss paint just to give it a nice finish and then using superglue and jute garden twine, I went to town. The actual wrapping took about half an hour to do, mainly because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, it wouldn't take as long with a smaller can.
My main tips from this are to use wet (not gel) superglue, that way you can simply squirt a bit onto the wrapping you have already done and it will seep through and attach the twine to the tin. I did this every inch or so of the wrapping and it's very solid.
The flower embellishment was from an old crochet doily which I gather up, tied with a short thread and cut off the excess. I used fabric glue to attach it to the twine.
Please let me know if you would like to see a tutorial on how I made this!
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