I was surprised to learn from my favorite blogger Flossie Teacakes, that a majority of people really don't care if most things around the house have a label slapped on it. I am one of those odd people that notices things like that. I will be happily washing my hands and my eyes will inadvertently wander to the DIAL label on the plastic soap bottle. I want to stash the little bottle under the sink so I don't have to stare at it!
Not only that, sometimes you have to live with a color that you would never choose. Purple, orange and yellow are not colors that I have ever decorated with. Yet those are the colors that seem to crop up on tissue boxes and even vacuum cleaners.
I love the look of glass jars filled with rice, flour or even laundry detergent. It brings me genuine pleasure to pour honey or maple syrup into a shiny glider bottle. Some things are easy to decant but others are easier, just to cover. So next, enters the lure of the donning of coats on various items. Tumblers are an easy fit. The fussy cutting is fun and a little quilting makes them sort of puffy. These below are 1 inch tumbler paper pieces sewn into strips. Four strips cover a tissue box rather nicely.
Watch out though, because donning coats on things can get pretty addictive! There is the added portability benefit of grabbing this project for a trip in the car, too. Friends seem to like them for presents - so it's all good. For now, I will keep my needle, thread and tumbler handy and ready to grab and go.
