Big Memory Cans

I drive my Chelsey crazy...I save lots of things...I can just imagine needing it or using it or recreating something with it...some day....so I save it!  I have been hanging onto these "faux" milk cans that held a very big bunch of sticky sweet caramel corn purchased on a holiday aisle and given to inlaws of inlaws a few years ago. One of my children saw them empty and ready to go to the trash after the holidays as someone had thoroughly pigged out on all the caramel corn inside and of course sweet Erica thot of me.

So this week....as I was sprucing up and organizing my new kitchen in the new house preparing to 'inhabit' the house soon...I had this big empty space under my kitchen sink. I just despise closed cabinets that could hold creepy crawlies under sinks...so I had Carpenter make all my sinks "bare" in the new house.
I'm thinking...big space...under sink...perfect for those milk cans reclaimed from trash!

They had tacky plastic labels on them but upon closer inspecition I was able to peel them off. I grabbed my handy spray paint and gave them some squirts. They were fire engine red! ewww! a little too bright and shiny for me!  So on went some "mousey brown"  Apple Barrell paint with a damp paper towel.

Then I have this love affair with modge podge and suddenly it came to me that I could enjoy my momsy's vintage GOOD HOUSEKEEPING magazine (circa1944) all the time instead of having it collect dust on a shelf somewhere - so I got to clipping everything in it that made me smile. This was the only vintage magazine she had in her stash and I got it when she left all this trite earthly treasures behind for eternal ones...I know she really liked this magazine. I'm expecting she bought with some very hard earned savings from her piggy bank around the time she was just out of high school.  and.....I love the idea of being able to enjoy these same pages of her GH magazine (now so vintage) everyday - oh oh oh - some of these old ad-ver-tis-ments were so cute!

All I needed was my modge podge and some scissors and the magazine from yesteryear my momsy loved and treasured.

I now have 2 great big tin cans perched under my kitchen sink. 

I'll use one for cleaning rags - don't you just cringe when someone cleans up a big puddle of chocolate milk on a dirty floor with a bright checkered fairly new dishcloth!?!?  So the clean up rags will be handy - all the uglies that still have lots of good use in them and the other can will hold dish suds and dishwasher detergent.

Kitchen is almost done...still no cabinet doors but Carpenter put in my so long wished for Rev-a-Shelves so I won't have to crawl inside the cabinets and search for long lost items! love it!!!!!