Thanks to my daughter we were
able to complete one of our last projects for the shower next weekend, at least
the ones she could help me with. Here are some photos of our newest creation.
We gathered together some of
our bits and pieces did some brainstorming and went to work transforming some
empty Starbucks Frappucino bottles into fun party drinking glasses. I love the
shape of these bottles and have been collecting them for years using some of
them to store pencils, paintbrushes, buttons and an odd assortment of
embellishments, the rest of the bottles have been stored away waiting for a
project. We soaked off the labels in
super hot water then ran them through the dishwasher to sterilize them, all
ready to decorate.
We wrapped the clean bottles
in foam wrap, tied some colored twine around the foam wrap and finished them
off by threading the twine through some retro blue buttons from my collection,
tying them off with a bow. Super darling with coordinating striped straws, placed on a Winnie The Pooh serving tray, how cute is that, recycling at its
best!
We got our inspiration from
one of my favorite creative magazines, Stitch/Craft Create; we saw their
darling bottle makeovers on a number of pages and decided we could do something
like that with my collection of bottles to fit our theme. You just never know where your next idea is
going to come from.
Thanks for letting me share
these fun little drinking glasses with you; we had a great time making them.
Most of you will be reading
this on Monday so guess what time it is???........
It is double post Monday!!!
Instead of sending out two different postings I am going to put them both on
one page for easy reading. This next project was a result of some project
leftovers from the charm pins.
I really wanted to make
myself a baby boy charm bracelet to wear to the baby shower; I am the
grandmother after all. We had plenty of
silver charms leftover and one of each of the enamel charms, I had some silver
jump rings and a double strand silver chain, just enough to make my bracelet.
It has been a while since I did any jewelry making so it took me a bit to get
the fingering just right but eventually I figured out how to get everything
going in the same direction and I was off and running.
My bracelet came out just
beautiful and looks really sharp against the blue background. I am very happy with it and I can’t wait to
wear it to the baby shower.
Thanks for letting me share
all of my baby shower projects with you this past couple of weeks; it was a lot
of fun seeing what we could make ourselves instead of just buying everything
ready made. I just have a few things to
stitch up for the baby, I am hoping I can get to them before Saturday, keep
good thoughts for me.
See you soon.
Laurette
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