Craftiness

A while ago I got hooked on Pinterest. How could you not get addicted? It's like having all of the internet at your fingertips, scrolling through pictures and ideas has never been so easy! I found these cute bottles on Pinterest a while ago:

I wanted to do something creative and thought this seemed easy enough. My supportive husband helped me out :) hehe We went to WalMart and found some spray paint in colors to match our living room. The bottles are old Italian Soda flavor bottles we had laying around. They were super old, so we cleaned them out, and got them ready for the project. (I didn't want to add the phrases because I really didn't know what we'd put. I'm not a fan of the words "Home, Family, Love" gah. It's too cutesy for me so mine are a solid color.)

Since it was windy, we put tarps out in the garage and started to spraypaint the bottles. We may have a tinted color garage floor in some places, oops! ;) 

We tied a rope around a nail and dropped the nail into the bottle. Then we got the nail to lay flat so we could hold onto the rope to hold the bottles up while we spray painted. This way we could paint the bottoms a bit too. Tip - to get a smooth coat, lightly spray paint the bottles and keep adding layers slowly. This way you won't get any paint drips :)

We hung the bottles to dry on a piece of pvc pipe we had laying around. I love the way they turned out! The colors match and it was a quick, cheap way to add some color to the mantle.

It's nice to have a life again :)