Cola Wars - Our Upcycled Soda Can Wall

I don't know if you guys remember, but awhile back I posted a photo of the start of our 'Cola Wars' wall.

You see, we drink a lot of soda in our house. Too much, actually, but we will avoid that conversation. LOL!

But...of course, we can't be easy and both drink the same thing, now can we? Nope. No can do, my friends! I drink Diet Coke. I live on it, actually. The Hubbums drinks Pepsi. If I'm honest...he's not as bad as I am.

Well, this habit of ours leads to a LOT of cans in our house. A LOT. And, being The Wifee and The Hubbums, we can't just let those cans go to waste, now can we? No, sir-ee, BOB! Nope. We had to put them to good use.

Thus...


....the Cola Wars wall.

Our very own upcycled installation piece! I'm pretty much in love with it.



Hee-hee. I love it. The Hubbums loves it. It's just totally more fun than a boring white wall!



The Hubbums used labels from 2 liter bottles to create the clock and the panel behind the clock.



I haven't actually counted to see if there is more of one than the other. I just know it looks cool! LOL!



And this bottle is just plain fun, even if it IS a Pepsi bottle! LOL!

I also wanted to share this fun picture of us at the fireworks, as I realized that I haven't posted much in the way of 'us' pics lately! We had fun!

Piles of Paper, Stacks of Cans, and a bunch of Tulips

Okay...here you go:

BEFORE:




Yup! That was my paper scraps! A tad bit out of control, one might say. If one was being judgemental and all. But I know you wouldn't do that to me! Your all such nice folks! No judging around here! But, alas, sometimese the truth is simply that...the truth. And one must deal with the truth by finally sitting one's rear down with the giant bin of insanity known as the paper scrap "file." HA! I actually thought it was 'filed!' LOL! Now THAT is funny stuff...anyway...I digress...as I was saying...One must sit down on one's rear with the insanity that is the paper scrap sorting system and actually, oh, I don't know...SORT IT!!!

The thing is, as you can obviously see by the afore noted photographs, this is not an area in which I would like to invest copious time whenever I am crafting. THUS...the simplest system possible is what I was looking for. So....

AFTER:



I grabbed some 13x13ish plastic bags and sorted my paper into patterns and solids and then I sorted each of those into two sizes - big and small. I realize that those are rather ambiguous size descriptions, but basically, I didn't want the tiny stuff getting lost in the almost full sheets and I didn't want the almost full sheets getting bent and wrinkled by the small pieces at the bottom, so that is my system. I had to use more than one bag for a couple categories...patterns in small and big, but I really like how easy it is for me to put scraps away after I create and also how easy they are to look through when I want to use them. Even when I had that afore mentioned disaster I was using scraps almost every time I sat down to work, so now it is faster and easier and I LOVE THAT!!!!

Okay...on to the stacks of cans. It's a good thing I title my posts first, otherwise I would forget what I was supposed to be posting before I ever got there! HA!



This is the beginning of what is to become an installation art piece in our kitchen. I love it! LOL! It's against a small partial wall right next to our sink. The stack is growing and it looks WAY too cool! I want to glue them together to make it an actual installation piece! Seriously! No...really...it's cool...trust me on this one. It will be fun to see it grow to cover the wall!

HERE!



These are just to brighten your day and remind you that it is FRIDAY!!!! My Mommy and Daddy gave me these for my birthday last week. They are all gone now, but that's what I love about photographs! They last forever!