Lego Craft

I was rummaging through my craft stuff and I came across these slightly rectangular metal tins.  I know I bought them from Stampin' Up! during one of their clearance sales, but I cannot remember why I bought them or how long I've had them.  On Pinterest I have seen little mint tins reused into little travel lego sets and so I thought I would do that to these.  The tins I have are probably twice the size of mint tins, so I needed kind of a large lego piece for the top.  There really aren't any lego pieces that big except for base plates.  So I ordered a couple of base plates and cut them with craft scissors.  They actually cut easier than I thought they would.

Then I hot glued the cut base plate to the top of the tin.  Does anyone use hot glue anymore?  It was the only thing I had.  If it doesn't hold, I will use gorilla glue.

I made six tins all together.  I am sure each boy will get one.  The others I think we'll fill with Lego mystery mini figures and use as gifts.

Here they are with some Legos in them.

So, yes, the whole year of 2014 went by without a blog post.  I have still made stuff... I've mostly knitted, but I've also sewed and scrapbooked.  I made some pretty cool stuff in 2014.  Now I'll have to make some more and remember to blog about it.

Happy New Year!!!