After Christmas I finished up with a whole bunch of chocolate and cookie tins covered in pictures of Santa Claus, Snow men and Christmas messages. The local goodwill stores are also filling up with a few.  Now I got no beef with Santa (he and I go back a long way) but Christmas themed musical instruments are a hard sell any time between December 27 and Halloween. 

Does anybody have any great ideas how to strip down, jazz up, de-Christmassify or otherwise re-purpose these tins without detempering them too much?

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You better not pout

You better no cry

You better not shout 

I'm tellin' you why

Ghost of Santa Claus is coming to town 

.......

I shall let your imaginations run on what the ghost of Santa could get up to. Almost makes me wish I was back up home so I could finish it off instead of down here staying at a vineyard near the beach.

We will  all have to wait another week till I get back to the shed.

So here is the final product. The biggest job was cleaning the remnants of the sticky tape that originally held it shut. It was so persistent I finished up stripping the paint under it because it was easier. 

Ghost of Santa still lives but

turned out pretty good. I like it

Seems like a lot of work stripping/sanding - would painting a yellow sun in the top corner, sunglasses on Santa and writing along the botom "Santa's summer holiday uke" work?  For ease you could do it as a graffiti with a black marker pen.

if anyone find out how well acetone works, please share.

On this tin acetone was very good at cleaning off anything except either the paint or the sticky tape residue. 

It was a lot of work I reckon next time I will just give Santa a summer holiday only because I live in Australia Christmas is already Summer. But it was a learning experience as they say and I had fun. 

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