Tuesday, April 6, 2010

project

last night i got a wild hair, after reading this:
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to take all of these
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and do this
bottles
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so i did. and that worked out fine
bottle

25 comments:

Cameron said...

They look great! I got inspired by Martha Stewart one time to do this and I took old jars and used two shades of the glass paint. Then used the mix matched jars on my counter as vases for fresh herbs for cooking. For some reason the blue of the glass paint really looked good to me with the green of the herbs. It was like a fresh flower display without the flowers.

Katy said...

OK well I know what I'm going to be doing this weekend...

Helena - A Diary of Lovely said...

I absolutely love this project!

jdavissquared said...

I've been wanting to try that too! beautiful!

Stephanie said...

you are one step ahead of me. I have the bottles and the paint, but no execution. Part of me was a little hesitant because this project couldn't possibly be this easy right? I'm glad to see some real world application pictures. Great job!

Lauren said...

They turned out great, can't wait to try this one myself!

Christie said...

Those look awesome!

sketch42 said...

Love Love Love! I did a DIY involving turquoise today too!

Bailey@ peppermintbliss said...

Well look at you go! My nighttime wild hairs usually involve me seeing how quickly I can consume a pack of cream cheese, so kudoooze m'lady, I think you have one this round.

Rolerkite said...

what a great idea. Now I know what to do with the extra paint I have from the newly painted accent wall.

White Cabana said...

What a pretty collection of blue glass. It's good to know that this DIY project worked out well.
-Jordana

Marissa said...

Awesome!

Katie said...

that's f-ing awesome. I've thought about spray painting the outside, but I hadn't thought of painting the inside. i love it

K said...

How gorgeous! I was trying to collect bottles in the proper colors to match my bedroom... how silly of me! I can just color them myself!

Thank you so much for posting about this idea, I love it.

Sarah (Matters of Style) said...

Such a good idea to do with all the fuggo florist vases sitting in my pantry that I am too cheap to throw away!!

Brand New and Beautiful said...

That worked well! I have some really pretty teal paint that I could re-purpose for this. Idears are in my head.

The Brick Cottage said...

Oh, love this! I've spray painted the outside of bottles with matte paint and that worked well, too. But I think I like this even better (plus more color choices!).

Amy said...

Love this! Going to start collecting my bottles now.

Megan said...

love the color!

maura said...

neat! i did something similar this weekend. spray painted the outside of bottles a gloss white- faux milk glass.
how many coats did you use? how did you get the paint to be even?

looks fab!

Sara said...

Thanks for sharing!! Talk about custom for cheap!

Kay* said...

what a fantastic idea! i'll definitely be doing this in the near future!

Kimberly Julie said...

genius! gosh i have so many projects to do... adding this to the short list, however.

A Brit Greek said...

Been going through an all things turquoise phase... and this post is the nuts!!! Love it, great job!

Thanks for the inspiration.

Catherine Hansen Peart said...

I noticed on the original magazine page that they had flowers in some. What paint would you use that could take water? Oil based enamel maybe? Would glass paint allow you to use the jar for something else as well? So many questions....lol.