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DIY Blue Painted Vase

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This week I had a little inspiration for my Friday Project Spotlight item.  I’m sure you have seen these GORGEOUS vases at Anthropologie:

I love them!! A thought that goes through my mind shortly after I figure out I love something (and want it) is “can I make it?”  I always think if I can make it, than it will be cheaper.  In this case, I thought I would give it a try.  My results aren’t anthropology, but I am pleased!!

I first got a clear glass vase at a thrift store for $0.99 and a bottle of paint for $0.68 at Hobby Lobby.

I poured the paint into my vase, and I kept turning the vase to let the paint flow all over and cover the clear glass.

It was kind of hard to get the middle “bump” of the vase covered so I ended up turning the vase over and letting it completely drain out.

There were only a few spots of the vase that weren’t totally blue (including the lip at the top), so I used a paintbrush and touched up those spots with the paint that had drained out.

I thought it looked pretty good here, so I tried it out.

I almost left it alone, but decided I needed to keep going with my task at making a cheaper Anthropologie type vase.  Plus, I had some etched glass markings I needed to cover up.

I sprayed a little glue on my vase and wrapped a piece of lace I had on hand around it.  I did this because I thought my black flower was too much smaller than the Anthropology vases’ flowers.  Plus, I LOVE texture!!  I then hot glued a black flower that I got at Jo Anne’s on it.  It was $1.50 with a %50 percent off coupon!

I really love the finished product, and I am so glad I kept going with this project!  I’m still working on “sealing” the vase so it is water proof.  Right now I have added a gloss varnish protective finish to it.  It is not totally “set”, so I can’t add water and try it yet.  I am hoping it works and the water doesn’t just break down my acrylic paint!  I would love to use the vase with real flowers.  It looks so good with these sunflowers on my end table!

If it doesn’t work I could always do something like this with it.

I am so pleased with my vase and think I got a good enough similarity to the Anthropologie vases.  What do you think!?!

Anthropologie, would you like to buy my design!?!  🙂

Thank you so much for checking in on this week’s Friday Project Spotlight item!

If you all LOVE Anthropologie and would like to win a $25 gift card there, go on over to Gentri Lee’s blog and register to win this giftcard from, Thriftary (one of my favorite blogs!).  There are lots of other goodies there to win too!  

I hope you all have a great weekend!!

Linked this project up at these fun parties:

Jennifer Rizzo, One Creative Mommy, Stuff and Nonsense, My Romantic Home, Southern Hospitality, The Ironstone Nest, Eclectically Vintage, Beneath My heart, and  At the Picket Fence.

Where The Wild Things Are

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Did you grow up loving the book “Where The Wild Things Are”?  I did not.  I didn’t get it.  To me , it was just a lot of pictures of monsters.  Now that I am a mom, I adore the book!  I love the imagination and can relate as I see my boys create places and pretend daily!  I tell my boys “I’ll eat you up-I love you so”  all the time now.  It’s a daily quote used around here.  In honor of this book and our love for it, I thought I’d paint another famous line.

“Let the Wild Rumpus Start!” is a line I often think of when I think of my little family.  Having a five, three, and one year old makes life a little crazy!  You know life with young kids normally is crazy, but it is so so good too!  I want to embrace our craziness because to me it means we are so so blessed!  I can’t imagine life without my three kids.  Yes, I might get to craft or blog more, but my life would be nowhere near as rich and rewarding.  I love my life, so I choose to say “bring on the crazy” which is what “let the wild rumpus start” means to me.

I started this little sign with an old piece of tongue and groove wood, and you know I love old wood!  I then stenciled my words on with the technique I showed you on my burlap sign.

I probably worked on this sign for 1-2 hours everyday this week to complete it.  My five-year old sat right next to me during most of my painting spells.  Thanks to him there is actually a picture of me here crafting. 🙂

Isn’t he a cute little sidekick?!  One day he painted this big rock.

Another day he wanted to paint the same picture as me 🙂

After I got the words down, I added the trees.

I dream of having an art studio with a huge gorgeous room decorated right off of pinterest.  There is just not a place for that in our little 60+ year old ranch house, so for now…this is where I created this piece.

It works though.  Until I get that studio/craft room, I will just enjoy the creative spot I have!  I slowly added monsters, until I had one on each of my trees!

I was getting close to being finished!  I love to create and craft, but I get “tired” of doing one thing for too long.  Haha! That’s probably why I do a little of it all!!  I can’t master one piece in my store like I wish I could.  I love to make and try new things.  After five days of painting this thing, I was excited for it to be done.  Although I LOVE love painting…and paint bottles and paint brushes.  They just make me feel like creating.  Do you have materials that you just love like this?

I painted some leaves on my trees and outlined them with a small sharpie, and my sign was done!  I love the finished product!

I’m not exactly sure where we will put this sign.  Maybe close to my kids art wall (that’s not yet complete), or above our engagement pictures.

It is not exact, but you can see the picture I was going for and used to model my design.  That fourth monster was the hardest to paint.  I mean, he’s like two colors yet shows contrast and depth!

I hope you enjoyed seeing my sign as the project for my Friday Project Spotlight this week!!  Thank you so much for checking in!  If you haven’t entered my hair bow giveaway yet-be sure to!

This weekend I am heading north to Farmersville, Ohio to help my grandparents auction off their big log/loft house and acreage.  They are down sizing into a retirement neighborhood where the houses are small and they get their grass cut for them.  It makes sense for an older couple, but this place has so many childhood memories for me!  It’s an amazing house that I grew up loving to go to.  I am sad to see it go, but I am also excited to see an auction!  I have never been to one!  I will post about it when I get back!

I hope you have a great weekend!

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