Painted Glassware

Awhile back my lovely mom requested a pair of hand-painted wine glasses that she put into a raffle/auction out at the ranch.  Blue sage thrives all over Tierra Linda Ranch, so I figured a version of this pretty little wildflower would be fitting.  They were a hit and other painted glassware soon followed.  They turned out to be the perfect personal gifts for my family at Christmas.

You can find them on my ScatterBirdie shop:  http://www.scatterbirdie.etsy.com/

Glitter Bottles

Glitter, glitter everywhere..how I love thee.  Get your glam on: http://www.scatterbirdie.etsy.com/

Um, more bottles...

Here is Tori's special pink and black tree. The hot pink stripe, polka-dot and swirlies are also blacklight reflective. I of course don't have a picture of this glowing goodness, but I used the same type of paint for some of the tombstones that I did get pics of.

Bottles, bottles, and more BOTTLES

I've always been a big fan of dumpster diving, but I took it to a new level with this project. Big thanks to my aunt and uncle for being winos and saving the evidence and to my mom for introducing me to the booze recycle motherload at Tierra Linda!

I literally washed, delabeled and painted like 100+ glass bottles and jars. Some were for the house and many were for the bottle trees we had made from my metal guy, Freddy. Please contact me if you want his info for any kind of metal welding/sculpture. Great guy to work with! More pictures of his bottle trees will be posted.

Here is just a small sampling of the glory. This was also a great way to involve the kids in the decorating too...we had a day of bottle painting/glittering and they got to display their handiwork as well. Fun stuff!

*Some were glittered, sprayed with various paints, painted with glow-in-the dark paints, blacklight reflective paints, paper collaged, stickered, google-eyed...all kinds of techniques.