Who knew I'd fall in love with pincushions?
30 January 2008
After Christmas I went antiquing. There is this one vendor who always has a sale going on and always has something that catches my eye. I visit this vendor every time I visit. I must have looked at these milk glass jars a million times but never thought they were anything special. They are old jars that face cream and lotion used to come in. I love milk glass and get excited at just the sight of it.
On my most recent trip, these milk glass jars called out to me. I had a vision of adding a velvet pincushion to them all. I wanted pink or light blue velvet but red was the best I could find. Over the past few nites I made them up and set them aside to dry.
I've been in a pin topper kick too. Found a whole bag of tiny doves for a DOLLAR! Rock On! SO I made up about a dozen or so of these dove pins and they look fabulous on these new pin cushions.
The only delimma is that they look unfinished. I've tried a few things to finish them up but none of those ideas look right. I'll spend another day or 2 at most to figure it out. Otherwise, they are going up on the shop as is.
Any ideas?
Heres a thought. Sand the sides of the containers with a 220 grit sandpaper, til all the shine is now flat. Wipe dust off with windex. Wrap them with masking tape as smooth as you can then draw a pattern or shape with a sharpie. Use an exacto to cut the pattern or shape out then remove excess leaving only the tape pattern. Cover top with paper and tape back off the top and spray with your choice color of Krylon flat, or gloss spraypaint. Let dry and peel off image and all tape to reveal your pattern in white.
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