I enjoyed making these but let me warn you they take a lot of time. Clean your glass and decide on your design then begin laying the sequins. Once dry add a coat of clear spray or modge podge!
My beautiful butterflies are made out of heavy plastic #1 . I outline a butterfly and cut it out. Using permanent markers I color them in on both sides and pain a thin coating of mod podge . when it dries I color in the butterfly again. repeat the steps of color, mod podge, dry as many times as needed (3 or 4) works best.
this bottle was a bit more difficult. I Painted the bottle white then in pencil drew my Santa on the bottle. I ten painted the red on the bottle. The hair and beard is unraveled cotton balls and modge podge. as is the nose and then painted. I used a piece of black ribbon and foil for the belt and buckle. I used white glitter over the fur of his coat. The hair and beard has hardened and it appears ceramic... After I painted his hands and face on I modge podged the entire bottle to encase it all and make it shiny and pretty! Hope you make one of your own!.
my green green & not much green chandelier has it's name beacause it is green in color, green in that it is made from pop 2 lt's and water bottles, and not much green because I had to spend $8.50 on brass wire when I ran out...but i only used about half so more like $4.25 and that is not much! Everything other than the wire I bought I had in the art studio.
When I started I switched the bulbs to smaller bulbs and my honer put in a dimmer switch for me. I cut out roundish to oval shaper close in shape peices from 7 up, siera mist, and sprite pop bottles for the green peices. I used water bottles for the clear peises. I made strands by stringing them together with wire and beads in between them. I had a found large plastic round hoop the perfect size as a base. I wound white ribbon around it to hide the brown and the wires holding them up. My honey hung it up with two hanger wires...... we love it!
When our refrigerator dies I took what I could from inside to use or at least recycle. This was for the milk ..now it keeps my cats out of my plants and the sun or light in!
ok ok I cheated I saw these nice plants for 2$ each and could not resist!
Water jugs make great see through storage bins
I use the vegie and lunchmeat drawers for my paints, The main shelf to work on and the door shelves to store paints for projects in progress!
3 examples of repurposing, reusing, and being creative
Thank You Nicki
I was given a manicure set in this box. I remember when I opened it and said "oh this is nice" I was talking about the box. This is grandma Milly when she was young and vibrant. She passed away in 2009 but she is always with us. With this is our rest room we see her everyday..a few times. I loved this pic and just picked out some things she loved to create this Picture frame memory box.
Thank You Sarah
I was given Make up in this box. Again I thought "wow" i looked at this box for monthes knowing I wanted to do something special with it. What could be more special than pictures of my family???? I added a little color and now i have a great picture cube box...
Thank You Marc and Chrise
I was given some glass oil jars with peppers in them. I love the gift and found a very practical way to use the package it came in...using two small eye hooks I screwed it to my upper side cabinet. It keeps what I need within reach and looks nice too. Repurposing, reusing, and being creative made these three gift packages gifts in their own right!
This is the tea set that started it all. One of my bestest friends Margo S. was moving and she gave me this tea set that was given to her. It is from Italy and has the colors of my livingroom dining room not to mention the tropical feeling about it. I found this tea pot at a garage sale for $3.00 and had to have it. A few days later I made this tea box. Now notice the colors in it are the same as in the tea set and the tea pot. Jamaica is my favorite place in the world...so far!
A great friend Bonnie G found this frame and thought I could do something with it...as she said "it is so beautiful, it would be ashame for it to be thrown away". I agreed and made the glass tray with the reverse painting on it. You can see how together it looks so beautiful and I love it for so many reasons....including my sons first two words together were "HOT TEA" which is Painted on the inside of the tea box! By repurposing, reusing, and being creative I have a tea set to treasure!