DIY: Spot Your Wine Glass

Hi team!

First off, I apologize for being so MIA. I was out of province for the month of August, and then school started! And I wasn’t able to crafty procrast like I wanted too.

But here I am!

I loved this craft, its easy and fun, and useful!

Materials

1. Wine glasses! I bought a pack of 6 for $10.00 from Ikea
2. Acrylic paint and paintbrushes- Pick a few colours of paint, but make sure you have white to make different shades of each colour! Dollarama, $1/bottle, $2/pack of brushes
3. Cookie sheet
4. An oven!

Instructions

1. Use your white paint to make different shades of each colour. You will want about 4-5 different shades.
2. Take the bottom of your paint brush and apply spots! Place the dots randomly, and make sure to use equal amounts of each shade.
3. Once you have finished your glasses, place them on a cookie sheet, pop them in the oven, and turn the heat to 350F. Make sure you put the glasses in the oven while its heating up, not once it reaches 350F, or the glasses will crack.
4. Leave the glasses in the oven for 30 minutes (starting the timer when you put the glasses in, not when the oven reaches 350F)
5. Turn the oven off and leave the oven door open after 30 minutes. Let cool.

You’re set! Have a drink to toast your good work!

P.S: To keep your design from fading, hand wash your glasses instead of putting them in the dishwasher

DIY: One-Step Woodsy Planter

Jade Plant in DIY Planter

Now this is one easy DIY. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet. But I think it would look cute if you had a couple lined up. Maybe as a dinner table display. Could also be a candle holder. I’ll let you decide.

Materials

1. Empty, washed Tuna can (or similar sized can)
2. Wooden clothes pins (you can use plastic, I like the woodsy look though) – Dollarama, $2 for a pack of 60
3. Optional: soil and plant, or candle
4. Optional: Acrylic paint if you wish to paint the pins

Directions

1. Clip pins around tuna can. plant your plant OR insert candle
2. Optional: paint your clothes pins

So capital-E Easy. I almost need a “very easy” category for this one.

DIY: Easy and Quick Furniture Makeover

A new coat of paint

I have had this small white table for a while. I inherited it from my mom (inherited might be a bad word, I think she’d prefer stole “borrowed”). It was made for her when she was my age, living alone in the big bad world. Its roughly a foot high and is perfect for my plants.

Through re-potting, watering, etc it became really dirty. After wiping it down, I realized it needed a new coat of paint… and maybe a little jazz.

This isn’t rocket science (although I’d like to use this moment to randomly shout out to Chris Hadfield) – but its a nice reminder that some items just need a little TLC to look their best again.

This is what I used, and how I did it:

Materials

1. Piece of furniture I wanted to spruce up
2. Acrylic paint (might not last years on end, but that just means I can give it another make over!)
3. Brushes, plastic bags (or newspaper)
4. Painters tape

Directions

1. Cover floor with bags (newspaper). Place furniture on top
2. Paint base color (in my case white), let dry.
3. Use painters tape to make stripes
4. Paint over non-taped sections with color of choice (I was actually aiming for a very dusty very very light purpley-grey, I got more of a lavender. C’est la vie)
5. Let partially dry – remove strips of tape. You don’t want to let it completely dry because then the paint risks coming off when you pull the tape off.
6. Make any touch ups needed. Let completely dry.

Beauty! Love these easy DIYs.

DIY: Dub Step

 

Dub step, two step… let me see you one, two step

What am I talking about? Well, none other than the easiest and best crafting there is!

You two step… your craft has two steps!

For example, I painted this lovely antique tray (thrifted for $1 in Wasaga Beach, Ontario).

I bought, I painted.

If you think about it, you’ve probably done many two steps. And two steps are just as crafty as the dreaded ten step, in my humble crafty opinion.

Show me your best dub step!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIY: The Great Thread Clean Up

Is there anything worse than a disorganized crafting drawer? Shelf? Room? No. Its the worst. And so uninspiring!

When everything is where it should be, organized and labeled, you feel like the DIY Queen/King that you are.

And, while you’re tackling that annoying-but-satisfying-at-the-end drawer/shelf/room clean up job — Why not craft as well?

2 birds with 1 stone my friends.

Materials 

All purchased for $1 at Dollarama:

1. Clothes pins
2. Glitter
3. Acrylic paint, any colour, or plain white glue
4. Thread
5. Newspaper — just to cover your working space

Instructions

1. Cover a clothes pin in glue or paint –  if you use paint you have to move a bit faster to step #2 as paint dries quicker than glue, and is less sticky
2. Sprinkle with a little or a lot of glitter!
3. Let dry
4. Place beginning of thread into clothes pin clasp, spin the thread around and around till you reach the end, reinsert end into clasp

Perfect lazy Sunday but-I-did-something-productive craft.