Greetings Friends! March will be here in a few days and in a few weeks, St. Patrick's Day. If you're in search of the mythical pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, I have just the project for you. Whether you celebrate St. Paddy's Day traditionally with corn beef and cabbage or just want to add a little glam to the occasion, this gold is as close as the end of a paint brush...
St. Patrick's Day typically comes and goes pretty quietly at my house. Generally I don't make anything special, but this year I was inspired by a surplus of milk bottles just waiting to be upcycled. Now, I usually drink healthier homemade almond milk lattes but I will confess these chocolate mint bottled coffees are a guilty pleasure. My local grocery store only carries the flavor during the holidays and the week after Christmas, I found them marked down to $1.12. Since they are usually $5 a carton, I was beyond excited--so much so, that I posted them on Instagram the minute I loaded them into the car! The coffees have been gone a few weeks now, but I purposed to reuse the bottles, especially after seeing the craft store sells them.
With my penchant for bringing the garden indoors, I enjoy repurposing assorted vessels as vases. I thought it would be fun to add gold glittery shamrocks instead of the usual green to the upcycled bottles. I already had this metallic gold craft paint and I picked up some shamrock stickers from the dollar store.
I started by wrapping painter's tape near the bottom third of the bottles. Next, I painted the bottom portions gold. Here they are drying after two coats:
Once they dried, I removed the tape and added a shamrock sticker to the center. I painted just a dab of gold paint in the center and then spread it around the rest of the sticker with a small paint brush.
While the paint was still wet, I sprinkled Deco Art Glamour Dust over the paint. The excess shook off easily once the paint dried.
A few roses and rosemary sprigs were the finishing touch--viola!
I drank a lot of coffee--stay tuned for more milk bottle projects!
MY HEARTFELT THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FOR FEATURING THIS POST:
So cute, or should I say glamorous??? Great idea and can easily be done with kids. I have that gold paint, love it! Xo Kathleen
ReplyDeleteYOU KNOW, HAVING an eye to do things like this, is pure genius!!! love reading what you are getting up to next****
ReplyDeleteThose glass bottles really make nice vases. Good that you are recycling them. Love the pretty roses too. Anxious to see what you do with the rest of them.
ReplyDeleteAdorable! I'm struggling with skipping St.Patrick's day this year. Your project is making me think twice about it.
ReplyDeleteThose bottles are just darling...and I can see this idea working for many holidays!
ReplyDeleteVery cute! Hmmm...I want to try those coffee's too!
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty... even elegant! Wonderful creation! :) ~Rhonda
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! Thanks for sharing your clever idea with Talk of the Town. I love your creativity.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute idea.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing with SYC.
Such a cute idea Cecilia! We will be having our St. Patty's dinner, but not sure if I'll have anything nearly as cute as this for the table. :) Thanks for sharing with SYC.
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Jann
Sweet friend, thses are adorable! I especially love the pink roses with the gold :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your wonderful ideas with Roses of Inspiration. Hugs to you!
Soo cute! Thanks for linking up at FNF!!
ReplyDeleteThose are adorable! I am in awe of how creative you are.
ReplyDeleteThese turned out so cute! I love how simple they are to make!
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable! I love that you added glitter to the stickers. Such a great addition!
ReplyDeleteVery, very cute. My concern is that I need to get a St. Patty Day thing made for the front door! Gotta get moving on that. Thanks for sharing your bottles.
ReplyDeleteHi Cecilia - This was so CLEVER! I love the gold bottoms on the bottles. I can't believe the price you paid for the entire case. Thank you for sharing this post on the Home Imagined Link party.
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