Hm, I find old bottles and jars much more beautiful when coloured ;-)
Links:
Coloured Bottles (d.i.y.: stained bottles)
via: How to: Dye Clear Glass ANY Color (A New Technique)
…compilation of tutorials
Hm, I find old bottles and jars much more beautiful when coloured ;-)
Links:
Coloured Bottles (d.i.y.: stained bottles)
via: How to: Dye Clear Glass ANY Color (A New Technique)
As long as fresh flowers still are rather expensive you can make your ambiance easily cheerful with paint coated beans in jars ;-))
If you don’t like beans very much, you can better fill the jars with coloured salt.
Bon appétit ;-))
Links:
Paint Coated Beans (Frugal Friday – Spray Painted Beans)
via: spray paint beans for an inexpensive vase or jar filler
Here at unikatissima:
Coloured Sand Jars
Because I nearly forgot Valentine’s Day I prefer to start a little sooner with Easter crafts.
And you may possibly practice a little before ;-)
I find that the onion skin dyed Easter eggs look wonderful and it doesn’t seem too hard to make them :)
Links:
Dying Imprinted Easter Eggs with Onion Skins
Here at unikatissima:
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Not long ago I presented faux ceramic and milk glass vases.
In a similar way you can also make wonderful coloured cookie plates.
I find them just right for a spring coffee table :)
Links:
Coloured Cookie Plate (Hemmagjorda tårtfat) (Swedish)
Here at unikatissima:
Faux Ceramic and Milk Glass Vases
I’m completely amazed how these pretty old-fashioned glass vases become really chic faux ceramic and milk glass vases!
Ok, it’s no sand, but chalk coloured salt, but the jars are wonderfully colourful, aren’t they? ;-)
Links:
Colored Sand Jars (Rainbow in a Jar)
via: Make colored sand art by stirring a chalk stick in a bowl of salt…it changes the color! Stir less for light color and more for dark richer color. Awesome!!! I love this stuff!
Wow, I wouldn’t have thought that you can embellish simple glass vases so easily in such a wonderful way!
Links:
Coloured Vases (Paint-Coated Vase)
via: Gör om en vas
I’m presenting this idea to colour hair because they discuss in the comments about using this technique (e.g. at Halloween) on human hair ;-)
Links:
Coloured Hair (Mohawk)
via: “crazy hair” …
You can make this chalkboard paint in any colour you like – great!
Links:
How To Mix Chalkboard Paint in Any Color
via: DIY / Craft Ideas