Try it Tuesday~re-purposed "lunch pail"

Welcome to Try it Tuesday.   This has been my project for the last two days.  I was determined to make this into a useful piece of crafty storage ~ so lets begin the journey.   A friend gave me this old lunch pail~it was surely headed to the dump.  I "liked" it immediately and I started thinking of ways to use it. This is what  came up with~

I first added some felt circles, that I cut from my Spellbinder die ~ so it would not scratch up my counter top.  I used Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to glue them on the bottom of the pail.

From left to right ~ the first picture is the top of the lunch pail with an old book cover glued to the top.~ made a nice landing place for my embellishments.  Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive is what I used most of the time when I refer to glue.  The second photo is a picture of the inside of the lid. I used the cover of an old dictionary and glued it in ( the four corners).  I don't have a picture of this but the bottom cover is in the bottom of the pail.  The third picture is of the dividers ~I covered some plastic dividers that I had with old dictionary paper.  Inked up the edges and made a Dymo label for the top.  The last picture is showing file set up for all of my mini alphabet letters.  My lettering of choice ~ well, for now anyway!

Then I started on the decorations that were going to sit on the book cover, of the lid.  I used my Tim Holtz die, Jenni Bowlin Acrylic Paint Dabber's, and Helmar's Professional Acid Free Glue to build my center piece~ so to speak.  I took a shaped pieced of cardstock and covered it with the old dictionary paper ( I watered down the Helmar's Acid Free ever so slightly to glue my old dictionary paper down), inked up the edges and used the Crop-a-dile to place my holes(for the ribbon).  I glued everything to my base(the wing on the bird I used Helmar's Scrap Dots) so it would have dimension.

I ended up adding some Prima and silk ribbon~which I just adore!!!

I then made a little mini tag using the same products to hang from the latch hardware.

Here is the complete project~

I am enjoying using my vintage lunch pail for storage for my mini alphabets.  I love to take something old and give it new life.  I hope you have enjoyed this and are encouraged to rescue something old and give it a new purpose~where ever that might be.  Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day!