USEFUL TINS.

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 45, 16 November 1929, Page 30

USEFUL TINS.

Have you . .ever decorated : tins or boxes to keep your odds and ends in? Round tins of any. size can be made very nice by painting over’the lids with gold -paint, then cutting two dla-

mond shaped pieces of white drawing paper and pasting over the lettering. Oh this paper paint a bright little scejoe or paste on gay figures cut from coloured illustrations. •

' Cigarette tins are handy Tor keeping your pencils, rubbers, etc., in, and look nice if, you. cover the lettering in the same way; Bright red, tins look especially nice with a Dutch ' figure, or a jjttle black boy. in a red suit, pasted on to the white .paper. There is still another useful way- to decorate them. Save about six large round tins and paint them with aluminium. Then in black lettering write on them, sago, ripe, tapioca, and any other names you iqre, and there will be 9. set of handy flits formotherjs / *