How Do You Make A Key Hook From An Altoids Tin?
Where are your keys? They’ve gone missing again, haven’t they? Now you’re late for work, for a date, for a doctor’s appointment — simply because you don’t have a good place to keep your keys. Artist and do-it-yourself design editor Kate Pruitt feels your pain. This is why she came up with her Altoids tin key hook project. Pruitt became a tinnovator — a crafty person who creates novel uses for old Altoids mints tins — somewhat accidentally. After being asked to create four projects per month from a single source material for the Design*Sponge blog, she happened upon a bin filled with old Altoids tins and concluded that they were too versatile to pass up. “I have always loved small things and the idea of pocket-sized inventions,” Pruitt says. “Plus, the mints are tasty” [source: Pruitt]. Pruitt came up with a wide variety of projects using Altoids tins — from a desktop
