Pop Tab Collection Jars

[Joe Handley]

One of my coworkers has an autistic geand daughter and her school is collecting pop tabs started by at the beginning of the school year through December, so all of us at the office have been saving them for her, especially after this coworker had a stroke shortly there after. There’s a paper Popeye’s cup that has a bunch as well as a small ziplock bag full and I was thinking that we need something better for that. Since my birthday was Tuesday, I took the first two days of the week off for a long weekend and while I was off, I picked up something Hobby Lobby calls an “Art Jar” and decided to paint it so we could put the tabs in that instead.

The first jar I bought I laid out a pattern in masking take and sprayed a color shift clear from Testors on it, but dropped it Monday night while trying to clear it and got leaves in the clear and dropped an Atomic F-Bomb when that happened.

So I went and bought a second and laid out a different pattern on it, including grabbing a 3.5”x36” roll of lace while there and shot it with a different Testors color shift clears this one is pink vs blue/green like the other.  I was able to successfully lay the clear on the second attempt last night and it looked pretty good this morning. Going to bring it into the office tomorrow and will post up a pick once it’s unmasked.

So, the first attempt seemed a bit lacking so I’m going to wet sand the clear to get rid of as much debris as possible and stripe off part of of it with Testors Diamond Dust then lay Spaz Stix Candy Purple over top of all of that before re clearing it. Figure the silver and candy will help hide what leave debris I can’t sand out of it.