Our Hopeful Home: vintage canning tub

O.K., how cool is this? Karen from The Graphics Fairy strikes once again and shares a fabulous blue, {blue, people!} Mason/Ball Jar. I love these things so much that I have my own Pinterest page dedicated to them. And the possibilities are endless in the craft/home decor department. Today I'd like to share with you my most recent Ball/Mason Jar home decor creation.

A while back I blogged about a great flea market find, my vintage canning tub, here.

I knew when I found it that there would be more than a few uses for it, even if I didn't know exactly what those uses would be at the time. Besides using the tub itself as a home decor element, the inside held a more exciting possibility.

For starters, you need 6 jars to fill all the slots. So I patiently waited, all the while collecting Atlas/ Mason (spaghetti sauce) jars. It's a good thing we love pasta in my house. Just sayin'. Once the jars were assembled (sans labels and lids of course) this is what I ended up with. (Only 6 months after my first post about this lol.)

The metal tray is just the right amount of rusty. And as much as I loved the look of the empty jars as is, I decided they needed a bit of spring. Enter Dollar General.

I bought some hydrangeas, (what I'll call ) fuzzy green cattails, and some white flower thingys that I thought worked well with the mix. Can you tell I'm quite the gardener?

And then I got to arranging. Boy, was I happy with what I got!

So here I sat all proud of myself for my barn sale/dollar store creation. And I had to smile when I got the Home Decorators Collection catalog in the mail today.

Page 63. Iron Baskets with Roses and Hydrangeas. $64.00

Maybe I'll add some pinks and blues to my arrangement for Easter. Then again, maybe I'll just leave well enough alone.