How to Make an Easy Patriotic Salt and Pepper Picnic Caddy from Thrifted Finds

Would you buy this if you saw it at a thrift store?  I took a chance on it last week.  I thought it might make a good picnic caddy for the summer.  But it needed a little work!

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How to Make a Salt and Pepper Picnic Caddy

The only supplies this project needed were paint and paintbrushes.  I used this white paint, blue paint, red paint, varnish, and paint brush for this project.  Oh, and a little piece of sandpaper.

First, I gave the round-about a couple of coats of white paint.

I don’t think the salt and pepper grinders were original to the set.  They didn’t quite fit the circles on the round-about.  I’ve seen similar pieces online and they came with pottery salt and pepper shakers that match the oil and vinegar bottles.

I painted both grinders white first, then painted two coats of blue on one grinder and two coats of red on the other.

Then I took a little piece of sandpaper and distressed the edges.

And since this will be used and probably have food dropped on it at some point I finished it off with a coat of varnish so it will clean up easily.

To finish it off, I replaced the oil and vinegar pottery bottles with some blue mason jars.  Still have the pottery… have any ideas for them?

Now the picnic caddy is ready to be filled up and carried out to the patio.  BTW, this will be in my Paris Flea Market booth for the June sale, along with some of my jewelry cabinets.

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Here are a few more items to fill up your picnic caddy this summer:

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‘Til the next project,

 Ann @ Duct Tape and Denim

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