Old Fashioned Candy Tins

Candy.com – Old tin lunch boxes $12.95

My 5 Year old started School this year which brought up fond memories of my school years. One of those memories was carrying around an old tin lunch box. I can’t recall for the life of me what the character was and it’s surprisingly bugging me. If I ever go into deep hypnosis therapy this will be one of my deep embedded questions. “What was my lunch box character?” Do you remember what was on your lunch box?

So to cut a long story short, I have been searching high and low for adorable lunch boxes and then once I find the perfect one I will find a reason to buy it.

Here is my find and here is my reason : Party Favor Boxes for a chocolate themed 4 year olds party. I know the kids probably wont appreciate it, But the thought of every parents having a mini trip down memory lane excites me and outweighs the cost of these tins.

Decorative storage around the house would be quirky. What else could you use these tins for? Add your own great links to tin finds in the comments below.

Mason jars are fun to craft with, use for storage or even use to hold gifts like baking mixes or sugar scrubs. But you can make your jars even cuter — no matter what you’re using them for — by adding a bit of cross stitch to the lid.

This idea comes from Gathered, and while they are showing examples of Mason jars used for storage in the craft room, you can use these throughout the house. I’m also thinking you could do this as a way to fancy up a traditional Mason jar sewing kit, since there’s already a little batting under the piece of cross stitch you could still use it as a pincushion.

The post walks you through how to make a cross stitched Mason jar lids and a link to a PDF pattern that includes six design options.

They’re not totally for beginners because they include cross stitch, backstitch, eyelets and Rhodes stitch, but if you aren’t familiar with those techniques you can either leave them off or there’s a stitch diagram in the PDF to help you.

Either way these designs are cute and relatively quick to stitch in whatever colors you like. It’s easy to turn them into jar toppers, or you could even just use the Mason jar ring as a frame rather than using it on top of a jar (I did this with a little Christmas tree cross stitch pattern I turned into an ornament).

They’re super cute in the pastel colors shown, or work in red and green for more of a holiday look if you’re using them for gift giving.

Check out the instructions and grab the free patterns for these jar toppers at Gathered. Once you start stitching I’m sure you’ll come up with all sorts of things you want to store or gift in jars so that you can make more of them!

[Photo: Gathered]

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