Just like you can redirect a home buyer’s attention from the imperfections of a home with staging – you can focus someone’s attention from an imperfect candy jar, by filling it with chocolate!
Is there anyone else that loves to take a project from a magazine and try it? I do, and I will admit, sometimes it works out better than others. This spring’s Better Homes and Gardens DIY magazine has a glass etching effect project and I just happened to have six pieces of glass that I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with. The glass is actually bath and body works candles – used of course. So I placed my candle jars is warm water for fifteen minutes or so, scooped out the left over wax, and I was ready to etch – I mean paint.
Now I am one of those people that read directions only after it doesn’t work – but I am usually modifying anyway. So I didn’t follow the magazines instructions very closely. However I did tape off some shapes on the glass, using frog tape and just to see the effect, ribbon. I also experimented with a draw liner that had tiny holes, but the result was simply a glob of frosted paint that ended up running anyway, so I nixed that idea. The result on the others?
Not perfect but still cute. Even using the frog tape the lines weren’t as sharp as I would have liked, the edges were a little too thick in places, and I ended up with spray too far inside. Of course, this is more than likely the fault of my imperfect designer’s -glass etching effect -skills. If you want to try this, make sure you cover the top so you don’t end up painting the inside of the glass and a thin coat works best.
Hopefully, my realtor friends will be too distracted by the chocolate to notice my little gifts aren’t perfect anyway.
So now, what do I do with the lids? Ideas anyone?