I bought this big metal tin at a yard sale for fifty cents. It was way too shiny for my taste but I loved the pattern and I had a specific remake in mind.
I gave it a couple of coats of my DIY chalky paint, a wee bit of sanding to make the patterned texture of the tin show, and I added some dark paste wax.
I love the way it looks now.
I used a scrap of foam core board that's used to create walls in a shower, (my husband is an installer and his scraps come in handy) and cut it to friction fit inside the tin. I punched holes in the foam core so it resembled a flower frog.
Once it was fitted into the tin it made the perfect holder for my hydrangeas'. I think I would have loved this arrangement using the blooms while they were still in their creamy white stage, but by the time I got around to it they were already turning. Fall seems to be coming very fast now.
To arrange, I pushed the stems into the "frog" so it will be easy to change these blooms out with any other dried flowers when I get tired of these ones.
I think it looks very pretty on my coffee table.
And I am absolutely thrilled that this tin can be used over and over. I`m already imagining it with evergreen boughs and pine cones.
