Thursday, September 20, 2012

Wine Glasses

So my best friend Cara got married in June. I had the honer of being one of her maids of honor. For her bridal shower we decided to have it at winery. The place was converted from an old barn. So sticking cute. I was so lucky to being working with another best friend to pull the whole thing together.

So one of my jobs was making the party favors. I thought...winery...lets make cool wine glasses. I was on pinterest and saw some cool wine glasses dipped in chalk board paint. I looked into and it looked like a craft I could actually do, since I'm not that crafty. I think they turned out great. Here is how I did it ( and I took pictures!)




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So I layed a paint cloth on my kitchen island, so I wouldn't ruin my counter tops. I also layed some wax paper down ( which I saw on a couple of blogs) so I could rotate so the paint would dry evenly. Some dipping took a bit of extra work depending on if I could get the bottom of the glass in the paint can. I put painters tape where I wanted the paint to go to. This made it was easier for this girl to make everything look even. 

Dipping the glasses



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This the the rotating. I did have to change the paper twice, I did about 30 glasses. Then I put them upside down to finish drying. I did the rotating first so that the paint wouldn't drip. I did have a couple of glasses that did drip, but it was easily cleaned off.

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The finished product! I don't think they looked too bad and everyone enjoyed them. I spent about 2 hours on this project, just because I'm a perfectionist, which is why I don't do too many crafts! 

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