Cat Food Tin

My cat loves her food and is very vocal about being fed. If you stand in the kitchen for too long she will start meowing at the top of her lungs and occasionally swiping a paw at your ankles. She has also been conditioned to associate reveille and retreat, played over the loudspeakers at the nearby AF base, with feeding time. Try to sleep in on a weekend and you’ll have a hungry cat jumping up and down on you at 0730. I thought that if my cat loved her food that much it should be displayed in something worthy of such love.

 The search for the perfect cat food container commenced. I was thinking about something like this tin from Ballard Designs which sells for $50! Ouch! As I continued my quest to find a cute cat food container I ran across a DIY version from Tidy Moms, who was inspired by the same food tin I was. The link to their tutorial can be found here. They mentioned what type and size font they used, perfect! 

They used a large old popcorn tin that they found at a garage sale. I immediately thought that I could do that and started to stop by garage sales to pick up a tin for myself. Well popcorn tins must have gotten smaller or people are just keeping them these days because I looked hard and long and never found one large enough for what I wanted to do.

When visiting my parents one weekend I decided to dig through the basement and see if I could find a free popcorn tin there. Well I hit the jackpot! I was unable to locate a popcorn tin, but what I found was even better.  This large flour tin (or is it steel?) had the same handles that my inspiration tin had.  Plus it has an antique look to it, and it was free!!

I decided to go with a bright red spray paint so it would match the theme in my kitchen. After 1 can of spray paint and a few painted words I have the perfect cat food storage bin. 

And the cat approves so that's a plus.

And just for the fun of it here is a video my husband and I made awhile back of our cat "hunting for her food"