I went to a craft show today at the local high school- not many vendors but did fine 2 good ones. One lady was selling things she made combining old things.  i bought a small metal pan like 6 square that was old. she put some scrap book paper in the back of it inside and then glude an old crocheted potholder to it.  simple but a nice idea.  she also made antique and old looking tags for each item.  It looked like she took tags from the store and stained them with tea or something.

she took a spoon and wrapped wire around the base near the spoon and put a bead and a button on it. then tied a small bowl out of cream colored ribbon.  in the spoon part she put the picture of a victorian girl at christmas and then some of the glue with glitter in it.  a cute idea. 

she had copies of old christmas cards she put wire on at the tip with some glass beads for ornaments. 

another person sold this – she took 4 vegetable cans and sprayed them blue and then speckled white paint on them to look like snow or the old metal cookware.  she bolted them togerther with a piece of wood to hold them together.  on top of the wood she bent a spoon and bolted the spoon to the wood.  the handle to a cadde that holds silverware.  a cute idea- you can of course paint the cans any thing you want for any occasion.  you could use larger cans too and put napkins in one. 

I attended another craft fair and bought- a plastic cofffe jar with candy in it and someone had painted the outside with different kinds of snowmen and snowpeople- it was the small Folgers jar.  I also bought a tin pocket with a ribbon on it and a snow scene painted on it.  they took a small vegetable can and cut both lids out.  they smashed one end flat to form the pocket and put holes at the top for the ribbon andthen painted the tin can pocket.  I also bought a large cone filled with gift packing and had tinsel on the outside and for the loop to hang it.  you can fill it with candy or cookies.  they took pages from an old hymnal and decoupaged them on the cone inside and out and then glued a picture from a card on the front and then put some of that glue on that has glitter in it.  I also bought a wooden tree.  She cut up a 2x4 into blocks, drilled a hole in the center for a dowl rod- stained both.  then cut out wooden trees, tall triangles and attached to the dowl rod, drilled a hole in the triangle.  then she glued wrapping paper on, holly and small print paper and embellehsed with glitter.  she tied a small ribbon on the dowl rod, no bow just a tie.  she sold out all of these items.  I also bought an ornament that was painted with holly and embelleshed with ribbon and some holly you glueon – it was a smashed up coke can.  they smashed it so both ends were smashed to form a circle.  they put the ribbon through the thing you use to pop open the coke – so you can hang it on the tree – they painted out the whole thing before they got stated- a great recycle project as well.