I awesomify things.

I had one of these:

That's awesome because it had popcorn in it, and I like popcorn. However, it's not exactly the kind of thing you'd keep around the house year round, now is it? Even though you can imagine it would have lots of uses, most of which involve holding things. (This isn't my tin, as I didn't take a pre picture, but mine had puppies and Santas on it.)

I also had some of this:

The colors are lovely, but what exactly do you do with such a thing? It's not really garment appropriate, and I didn't have enough to make a blanket.

But, when I put the two together, I got this:

I started at the bottom where there's a little metal lip, and just wrapped up the side. I put a thin layer of Mod Podge underneath occasionally to anchor it, and attached the beginning and end of the yarn with some hot glue. Then I sealed the whole thing to give it some stability and keep it from getting too dirty since it will be on the floor. I didn't bother to do the lid, since I'm going to be using it as my new office garbage can.

I like the way the variegation in the yarn creates darker and lighter patches. I have some other Christmas tins lying around and I like the way this turned out so much, I think I'm going to repeat the experiment with other tin/yarn combinations.

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