The Glassy Crafty Day :-)

I promised a recap of our crafty, glassy day where I invited a group  of my girlfriends over to play with some crafty stuff with me. There were a bunch of glass projects I have been wanting to try, and this seemed like the perfect time to try out a whole slew of them. And then we also threw in a hair flower craft for good measure, which was a big hit. :-) Here's how it played out:

I went shopping at the Salvation Army and bought up their entire selection of vases, votive holders and pretty glass cups. The lady at the checkout counter HATED me. :-) Although I did help her wrap everything up, which I thought was pretty nice of me.



Then I washed and de-price tagged it all. THAT was fun. :-)

My goal was to experiment with a few different projects - glass painting, glass coating and glass.. enhancing I guess you could call it. For Saturday, I just assembled all of the supplies, as well as a gallery on my laptop of inspiration ideas. Here are some of the crafts we did:

The glass painting (wine glass) was more difficult than I anticipated. The DIY mercury glass (silver votive) was super simple and easy, and the glass coating, (white cup and red vase) was time consuming but simple and fun.

It was a full house, and we had a blast.

I told the girls they could bring their own projects to work on, or do what we had planned. Most elected to do the crafts I had planned.

Not Andrea though. She's a rebel. :)

My sister in law Anna brought her daughter Becca with her. Becca is the sweetest girl I know. My friend Sara brought her daughter Lily, who is definitely the sweetest girl I know. And Andrea (the rebel) brought her daughter Grace, who is for sure the sweetest girl I know. The rest of us gals are daughter-less, so we just brought ourselves. :-) Speaking of sweet, my sis Steph brought these aMAzing cookies, that were scrumptious.

That's not Steph. That's Bekah and Chelsea. They are awesome girls. :-) This is Steph.

(on the right) :-)

Speaking of awesome food, Lover surpassed his usual awesome self and cooked us up an amazing array of treats. This is just a sample of what he made.

SO good. :-)

Gosh, my hair is getting really long. :-)

Grace made an adorable vase with polka dots and her initial on it.

Sara and Lily made mercury vases and hair flowers.

So that's pretty much it. We had a great time and made all sorts of fun stuff. Lover fed us so much we were all stuffed. And Andrea made up for her rebel self by bringing me flowers. :-)

Here are the links to the projects we made.

DIY Mercury Glass

Glass Painting with Markers

Coated Glass Bottles

I couldn't find a link to the type of hair flowers we made, with flannel and tulle, but if you google "hair flowers DIY" you'll get tons of results. All in all it was a super fun time and I would do it again in a heartbeat. Although maybe not right in the middle of a busy weekend with twelve other things on the schedule. My bad. :-)