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seafood swag

July 2, 2013

diy seafood forks

You may already know that I am a big Plasti Dip fan from my wooden spoon tutorial.  Today, I am going to show you how I used Plasti Dip to give an old set of seafood forks new life by putting a colorful plastic coating on the handles. 

'before' seafood forks for Plasti DipI was lucky enough to be the recipient of an old set of seafood forks from my friend Terry…thanks again T ;)  If you don’t have a friend like mine to give you good stuff to recycle, you can head to a thrift store.  The forks don’t need to match since the color you choose for the Plasti Dip will tie the set together.

I wanted my seafood fork set for eating shellfish on the beach and decided on royal blue for my Plasti Dip color.  Following the directions on the ‘Make Your Own Color Kit’, I used blue and a little bit of black to mix the color I wanted. 

eating shellfish at the beach

DIY seafood forks

Plasti Dip is very easy to use.  You can follow my spoon tutorial if you need some instruction.  In the same way that I dipped the wooden spoons, I dipped each seafood fork into the Plasti Dip.  Easy! 

revamped seafood forks

After allowing for drying time, my forks are ready to use!

seafood fork DIY

Now I have a colorful supply of seafood forks that I love!  Mussels anyone?

shellfish on the sand

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Category: diy, food & festivities, sand & sea | Tags: , , , | 6 comments

  • Susan @ Through My Porch Window says:

    I am definitely going to do this. I love it…so pretty.

  • Donna says:

    This looks and reads like something out of a magazine I would so buy….fantastic, easy and cheap!

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