How Do You Make A Picture Frame From An Altoids Tin?
Artist and blog editor Kate Pruitt knew she’d struck the mother lode when she happened upon a pile of old Altoids tins at a secondhand store near her home in Oakland, Calif. As an editor at the blog Design*Sponge, Pruitt must create four projects each month, all based on the same source material. In the past, she’s made vintage wine clips using earring hoops and note boards from old canvas landscape paintings. When she laid eyes on the pile of Altoids tins, however, she didn’t know she was entering the world of tinnovation — finding unique uses for old Altoids tins. Like many other tinnovators, she simply saw that the classic tins had some latent use that only needed to be discovered with a little fiddling and a lot of imagination. Pruitt says she bought the whole lot and went home to see what she could come u
