Ok, I must admit- I have an addiction. No, it's not drugs or alcohol, it's with a certain brand of coffee. I just can't live without it (I've tried, and it wasn't pretty)! My brand of choice, that I affectionately call my "coffee stuff", is the French Vanilla Cafe from Maxwell House International Cafe. I love it, and drink so much that we buy the mega-ultra-friggin-huge containers of it at the wholesale club. The containers it comes in are a nice sturdy cardboard, but usually end up in the trash once empty because I have no clue what to do with them.
A few days ago I got a cool idea on a way to reuse them from one of my favorite websites
http://www.pinterest.com/ - as a storage container for all of my daughter's hair accessories! She, like many other little girls, has a ton of hair elastics, clips, and bands for her beautiful mile-long hair. We've been storing all of it in a ziploc bag ever since we moved in, but the bag was ready to fall apart from so much abuse. It took me only a few minutes and some scraps of fabric and ribbon to turn my "coffee stuff" container into an ultra-girly hair accessory container that holds all of Lia's hair do-dads. Her headbands fit wrapped around the outside of the container, and everything else fits inside. Here's the before and after:
BEFORE:
AFTER:
