Trash to Treasure- barbicide jars without barbicide!

I saw these Barbicide jars and thought how cool that would be to have doing multiple duties!

I don't own a salon or anything and I don't want to pay over 50$ for a real glass one... so this idea popped in my head:

First I took a can, pencil, some hard cardboard from the trash that I knew would hold up to the weight of pens.

I cut a circle that fit snug in the bottom of the can yet would slide up and down nicely inside.

Now- my youngest son likes to pick off the erasers of pencils... so I took one of those with a needlenose pliers and opened the aluminum that usually holds the normal eraser.

I peeled it back...

slipped it thru the bottom and added the trusty "goop" glue.
Let the Goop dry

I also tried it in this glass jar...

I stuck with the tin for my pens. (I think I'll use the glass one for Q-tips!) I then took some cute patterned paper and covered the outside of the can, the pencil, and the circle (top and bottom)inside (I did the bottom because it helped stabilize the vertical pencil. Because the point of the pencil is up and this one was sharpened/used, I covered it with a photo corner from my paper craft piles....

added some embellies!

a look inside at the bottom

I love how the bottom mirrors on the sides... therefore I chose not to cover the inside of the can... plus, I don't think it would slide up and down very well that way....

For the pic I just stuck some pens in. I currently have some small colored pencils in there. It helps as they can be slid up and I can see the color of which one I want!