Tampon Basket!

Last night I was organizing my toiletry basket.  Tampons are everywhere.  They are behind shampoo, tangled in the power cord of my curling iron, 2 millimeters from being tucked inside my travel toothbrush holder -- Aunt Flo left a lot of my cousins behind last month.  I get stressed out over all the tampons, I'm beholding.  I start grabbing stuff and flinging it over my shoulder.   
                           
                        Bubble bath - gone!  
                                                         
                                                             Contact case - gone! 
                           
                       Aloe - gone! 
      

Small random wicker basket with red ribbon - double gone!  

.........REWIND.

 

I grab the small basket and look it over.  It'd be a perfect holder for my cousins.  One problem -- there are big holes in the bottom of the basket.  Tampons would easily slip through. 

  
That's when the DYI machines in my head lost their dust and churned out an idea.   I was about to chuck a box that once held 18 or so tampons..then I realized..this could play a part in the rebirth of my DYI skills.

I broke down the tampon box and cut out a small square.  Trimmed it to fit inside the wicker basket.  All was well up until my girl-side came out.  It didn't look "pretty".  I could either read "Kotex" when I ran out of tampons or I could look at an ugly shade of brown.  Decisions, decisions.  

In my peripheral , I spotted tissue paper. Aha!! 

I covered the cardboard square with white tissue paper and then covered that with clear tape, because I can.  (Also, I feared that the tissue paper would tear easily, it being TISSUE PAPER and all. :P )


I ended up with a cute basket that hold my tampons comfortably.  Now they don't sit awkwardly in a pocket of a door-hanging organizer, next to my sunglasses.  Next item on the to-do list?  Start buying the same brand of tampon.

And the final product in it's new home, below :)

  Isn't that red ribbon so convenient?  ;)