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July 4

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!

BEFORE - Thrift store salt, pepper set before painting

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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.

Painting my thrift store find

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.

First coat of paint is white. Blue paint goes on over that.

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

Distressed blue paint on thrift store salt pepper shaker

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?

Red, white, and blue picnic salt and pepper set

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.

Red, white, and blue summer picnic caddy ~ salt pepper mason jar for straws

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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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Red, white, and blue upcycle salt & pepper picnic caddy


10 Comments

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Comments

  1. Sam@Raggedy Bits says

    June 2, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    Love the re purposed idea and how you have transformed the picnic caddy! Looks so much better now 🙂

    Reply
  2. Christine says

    June 6, 2017 at 6:13 am

    You have vision, so glad you took a chance. It turned out great!

    Reply
  3. Sue from Sizzling Towards 60 & Beyond says

    June 8, 2017 at 2:29 pm

    This looks great and so clever! Thanks for sharing with us at #overthemoon link party. I’ve pinned and shared. Have a great week.
    Sue from Sizzling Towards 60 & Beyond

    Reply
  4. Theresa @DearCreatives says

    June 15, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    Love your picnic caddy upcycle. Shared. Thanks for joining the Inspiration Spotlight party!

    Reply
  5. Linda at Mixed Kreations says

    May 19, 2019 at 8:30 am

    Love your picnic caddy, it turned out so cute! Perfect for the holidays!

    Reply
  6. Kathy A says

    June 17, 2019 at 11:05 am

    Great upcycle. Red, white, and blue seem to be my go to summer colors between Memorial Day/Flag Day/4th of July! Not to mention blue and white accents in my kitchen!

    Reply

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