A Great Alternative to a Basket

A Great Alternative to an Easter Basket

Have you ever wondered what to do with all those old Easter Baskets that your kids get for easter? I personally have 3 kids, so that means that those baskets pile up quickly.

I have found no real good thing to do with those cheap baskets, so I came up with an alternative. Instead of the Easter Bunny bringing his treats in a traditional basket, He brings them is something different, like a hat, or beach pail.

If you use something functional, then there will be no baskets to store, or even throw away.

Another tradition our Bunny has started is to bring the kids a new spring outfit. (Preferably something that matches the hat). If you just browse the stores, then I'm sure you'll have many ideas in just a few minutes, you just have to look at things a different way.

Not to mention, your kids will love the new Easter Tradition. Give it a try!

Let Me Be "Blunt"

Let Me Be "Blunt"

My boss loves to smoke those huge Blunts (he prefers the Grape ones). Every time he opens one of the plastic containers, he looks at me and says "There has to be something you can do with these containers". I took that as a challenge!

In honor of the great amount of snow we have received here in the Mid-West, I came up with this great project.

I call this "Three Happy Snowmen". The snow men were made from the plastic containers that the Blunt Cigars come in, the feet, under the bottom, is the caps off the containers. The hats and scarves are made from scrap material.

The only thing you have to remember is that the containers are plastic, it's very hard to paint plastic. Heres what I did...

I lightly sanded the container, to allow it to accept the paint, then I used primer to coat the whole thing, including the caps. It will take several coats of primer before the whole thing is coated. Paint it any way you like from this point.

If you make one, I would like to see it, please leave a comment with a link to your project.