If you have spent a lot of time decorating your home, like me you will probably have accumulated a large number of paint tester pots. I hate waste and have been looking for a good way to use them up for a while.
Luckily our wedding colour is green, and as our bedroom is also green, I thought I could find something wedding-related to use it for.
I’ve noticed in the magazines and on plenty of blogs, it’s becoming popular to have some sort of Mr & Mrs ornament, or the initials of the bride and groom. Joe’s sister took us to a place in Leeds called Country Baskets a few weeks ago to pick up a few bits and bobs for the big day and I found these cardboard letters – They were about 70p each.
(I know this kind of thing is popular in children’s bedrooms in the past few years and the baby shops charge almost £10 a letter, so I think the fact that ours are cardboard and less than a quid each was a bargain!)
So, I got some newspaper out, a paintbrush and the tester pots and got painting. I think they’ll look lovely next to our post box, and after the wedding I can put them in a frame and mount it on the wall since it’s the right colour scheme!
We used Dulux’s Melon Sorbet for our initials and Dulux’s Chic Shadow for the ampersand.
Any other ideas of what to do with tester pots?
