Our office My craft room needed some life in it (stay tuned for the craft room details…). Flowers. I wanted to buy a vase at Ikea the other night. I saw a few that I liked, but I promised myself not to buy anything I could make. I put the vases back.
There are a few oddities I’ve inherited from my mom. Categorizing chocolate as its own food group, embarrassing forgetfulness, and accumulating a mass of candles. Hmmm. I did say they were odd things. Anyway, allow me to cut to the chase…
I have a box of empty candle jars in my garage (my husband is convinced I am a hoarder). I keep telling him that one day I will find a use for these empty glass jars. Well my friends, today I found use #1 for an empty candle jar.
I rounded up my favorite supplies. In case you haven’t noticed, that would be spray paint.
Step #1
Peel the label off of the front of the jar & toss the lid into the recycling bin.
Step #2
Set the jar on a tarp or plastic that you don’t mind if paint gets on it. (Lesson learned from this incident don’t put it on the grass) I placed it upside down so I could cover the entire outside. The paint is opaque and you will not be able to see in.
Step #3
Evenly spray a thin coat of “Frosted Glass” spray paint all over the exterior of the jar. This will give the glass a bit of a rougher texture which will act as a primer, allowing the color spray paint to adhere better. This stuff has me intrigued, I will be using it again for another project, it’s so cool!
Step #4
When the frosted glass paint is dry, spray on 2 thin coats of a colored spray paint. I chose this spring green color.
Step #5
Pop in your flowers & try to convince your husband you are not a hoarder because your crazy ideas are also money-saving & useful ideas 😛
Ha! And not to mention it keeps you busy…. 😉 This is adorable! You’re making me want to go spray paint … everything.
Be careful! Once you start, you can’t stop!!!
Love it!
Spray paint! reminds me of tap shoes & ballet slippers!
Me too! Maybe that’s where the obsession started…. or I inherited it from Daddy.
Girly you are too cute! Love the new vase…so creative! Love it! Hope you are enjoying you vacation so far!
-Kristin
Hi Kris!!!!! You found me!!! LOL! What day are you free?! I’d love to have a craft night!
Yay for someone else that hoards old jars! I absolutely think they make great vases. I once bought a certain kind of bbq sauce just for the jar it came in. I got an eye-roll for that one. 😛
Jeez, you sound like me! LOL!
I think this is a great idea! I also love squat vases to put big bulbous flowers in.
Peonies are my favorite!
love it ! what a great idea.
OMG I am starring this in my google reader! I love this and wish I was creative like you–thanks for sharing 🙂
Cool! Thanks Tiffany!
xo
Mindy
i guess we should have learned a lesson in making fun of mom and dad……. you have accumulated candles like her, and use spray paint for many many things like him.,.,.,., interestingggg!!!!
Their strange habits make sense when you put them together hahah. Yep, I am the spawn of a hoarder & a graffitti wannabe. Yeah, that sounds about right 😛
You’re so crafty! The vase turned out super cute…love the green!!
Lesson learned…husbands are always wrong…….except for choosing us. 😛
EXACTLY! LOL!
xo
Mindy
HI, this is my first time commenting but I’ve been a reader for a few weeks. I’ll have to try using the Frosted Glass paint next time I try to paint glass. The last time I tried spray painting a glass jar it didn’t work out too well (I know next to nothing about paint). When I moved in with my fiance last year I seriously considered whether or not I was a hoarder because of all the odds and ends I had stored for potential crafts. 🙂
So funny! Spray paint sometimes doesn’t stick well to no porous materials such as glass, so you need some sort of primer. The frosted glass spray worked well.