This year our family drew names for Christmas gifts. Mark is very creative and he has followed his sisters and I onto Pinterest. He made Lindsey some pretty great gifts. The first one he made was the lighted bottle. His first attempt was with a bottle that we bought at a flea market and used as a flower vase at Lindsey and Joey's wedding reception. Mark took it and put etching cream all over it to give it a frosted look. Then he and his daddy worked on drilling out a hole toward the bottom of the bottle. The glass drilling takes awhile to do. When it was almost drilled through big enough to insert the string of lights, the bottom of the bottle broke completely off. So we went to Wal-Mart, bought a 3 dollar bottle of wine, poured out the wine and started over. This bottle was already frosted so he could skip this step. Once the bottle was drilled he took some jute and wrapped on the neck of the bottle, put the lights in and viola! Looks great!
Can you think of other items the lights would look good in? Let me know your thoughts and ideas!
Mark's second crafty project was on an old canvas picture we found at a thrift store. The canvas was a print of flowers. He looked on Lindsey's Pinterest of her favorite sayings then went to work printing and cutting out letters. It was tedious work because he printed off the computer his letters then had to cut them out. Next he traced them onto contact paper, cut them out then applied them to the canvas. The next step was to paint the whole canvas. He decided on a "Storm Gray" color. Once the paint dried he pulled up the contact paper letters and this is the end result:
Both projects really turned out great! And his sister loved them! Lots! Yea!
Do you know of an easier way to do the letters? We wanted to print the letters onto the contact paper with the computer printer, but the contact paper curled too much and we were afraid the printer would get messed up or jammed.
Hope your Christmas was wonderful and that your New Year will bring you into a closer relationship with our Lord. God bless!
Mark's second crafty project was on an old canvas picture we found at a thrift store. The canvas was a print of flowers. He looked on Lindsey's Pinterest of her favorite sayings then went to work printing and cutting out letters. It was tedious work because he printed off the computer his letters then had to cut them out. Next he traced them onto contact paper, cut them out then applied them to the canvas. The next step was to paint the whole canvas. He decided on a "Storm Gray" color. Once the paint dried he pulled up the contact paper letters and this is the end result:
Do you know of an easier way to do the letters? We wanted to print the letters onto the contact paper with the computer printer, but the contact paper curled too much and we were afraid the printer would get messed up or jammed.
Hope your Christmas was wonderful and that your New Year will bring you into a closer relationship with our Lord. God bless!
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