Bottle It Up
We have gone little craft-crazy this holiday season. The first thing we created? Silver bottles for the entry way. This project was really easy, but it did take a moment of trial and error.
What You Need:
Epsom Salt (We used Dr. Teal's Cooling Peppermint -- our bottles smell amazing!)
Glitter
Silver spray paint
Newspaper
Yep, that's all.
What You Need:
Epsom Salt (We used Dr. Teal's Cooling Peppermint -- our bottles smell amazing!)
Glitter
Silver spray paint
Newspaper
Yep, that's all.
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| Side Note: Glitter is more expensive that I remember it being when I was 9. This could be because I don't actually know how much it was when I was 9. |
Put your newspaper down. Now, we mixed the glitter and the Epsom salt on the newspaper like so:
We sprayed the bottles completely silver and then rolled the bottom of the bottles in the glitter and salt mixture. This is what happened:
I don't know if you can tell (or maybe that's the wrong picture), but we didn't think things through. Our patio is concrete (or "concreek" according to B). Rolling a spray painted glass bottle over the concrete only scratches the paint off the bottle. So what could have been a one-person project quickly devolved into a two-person laugh riot.
Basically, one person sprayed the bottle and the tilted it back (so as not the scratch the paint) and rotated it. Meanwhile, the other person threw the salt and glitter mixture gingerly upon the bottle as it was being rotated. Hilarity ensured when the person spray painting (me) paid no attention the the direction the spray nozzle was pointing and continually painted everything save the bottle.
But, we were ultimately successful. See:
The picture doesn't really do them justice. All in all, the project took about 20 minutes (half of which was us realizing concrete is not the ideal surface upon which to craft, followed by a good 2 minutes of laughing).
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