Monday, January 10, 2011

Christmas Leftovers - Faux Frosted Glass Jars

I loves me some Christmas leftovers. I totally do.
Turkey = good.
Boxes of Lindt chocolaty thingies = better.
Plastic candy jars with lids = best.
See?


And if you're thinking "Dude. Really?" then stick with me here...
I picked up three of those guys from the Dollarama before Christmas; I'm guessing they were meant to be used for gifting homemade treats. I, however, have no homemade treat skillz. So I didn't do that with them. Instead I did THIS:

Buh-bye christmas-themed plastic item! Hullo classy frosted glass apothecary jar with year 'round storage usefulness!
And the BEST part about these? All I used to transform them was some nail polish remover and a clean kitchen scrubbie. Which I happened to have on hand. Which means free. Yay for free!

So, I used the nail polish remover and a bit of paper towel to wipe the print off of the plastic. You could totally stop there. That looks like this, see:

Otherwise, grab your clean kitchen scrubbie and rub gently on the surface of the plastic in small circles until you've reached your desired level of opacity (You guys! I LOVE the word opacity. And I hardly ever get to use it.)
If you were feeling kind of fancypants you could mask off some areas with tape (or say, heart shaped stickers to make a VALENTINES candy jar?)

And that's it. Done. I'm using mine as STUFF holders in my bathroom, (yay for unbreakability!)
How are you using your Christmas leftovers?
Oh and I shared over at Melissa's (complete with embarrassing spelling mistake. GAH!)

And over HERE too!

6 comments:

  1. Ooh, I like that! Looks like a nice way to organize things (and I always have things in need of organizing) and free is good :-)

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  2. Wow, I'd never ever would have thought of this

    Just Better Together is having a $25 gift certificate giveaway!

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  3. Nail polish remover?!!! I'm going to have to try this! :) Thanks for linking up to Sassy Sites- Trash to Treasure Tuesday! We are doing a LABEL giveaway today, so come back and check it out!

    xoxo!
    Marni @ Sassy Sites!

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  4. those look so good, I never thought they'd so easy and cheap to make :) thank you for the tip!

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  5. This is so wonderfully clever! I never would have thought of nail polih remover to remove decals on plastic! And your faux frosted faux apothecary jar is so cute! Thanks for sharing!

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  6. Actually this kind of gifts is not just for Christmas only but good for any kind of occasions frosted glass. Thank you!

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