Painting plastic

Here I am, 2 days in a row!  I know I can make myself do this.  Since I've retired, I seem to be on "whatever..." time -- Not that I'm complaining.

My parents just left, they came up to celebrate my mom's 81st birthday.  She has not been very well this summer.  I hope she comes out of it and that this is not the beginning of the end :(

Enough!  I'm going to do a short post today to show you how I painted plastic.  The guy who owns the local pool/hot-tub place GAVE us some great plastic containers with screw-on lids.  We use the large one to put chicken food in, and had 2 left for the dog and cat food:

I taped off the top part and used the "Rustoleum plastic" paint you see in the picture.  I had to wipe them down with alcohol, but that was it.  I sprayed one coat, waited a couple hours, then sprayed another coat.  THAT'S IT!

 Do you feel like you have a crick in your neck?  I don't know why this picture won't rotate.  Ah, well, you get the idea :)

This is where these buckets "live."  In the laundry room, where the animals eat.  They are great containers for pet food, and I think they look SOOO much better painted than they looked before.

So that's my quick project and quick post for today.  I still have some of this paint left and I'm sure I'll find something else to use it on ;).  Hope you've had a great weekend!