Swirly Jars - Pinterest Pin

I found this great pin a while back and had to try it

Centsational Girl does a great tutorial. Check out her site for the tutorial. 

My living room is accented with shades of lime green, so naturally I did greens. 

(pre tip: check your colours before starting, my one colour is too camouflage looking for my comfort)

But here are my tips. 

1. You're going to use more paint than you think. I used up three little bottles. 

(Mind you some were partially used, and I might have used too much paint).

you can't have too much of a good thing, can you?

2. Check the consistencies of your paint before you start. 

One was nice. perfect. 

One was too gunky/thick. 

I, personally, think it would be better to add a little water to the paint in the bottle and shake it all about till you get the right texture. "sprinkling" water into the vase like I did was a major fail, especially when some paints didn't need to be lightened up. 

3. Clean up the edges before it dries. 

4. Don't use too much paint because then you'll have to drain it and your swirls might get mixed up. 

5. If you can, I'd recommend rotating throughout the drying period. I have one side which you can tell was the side that I let it dry over night on. I don't really like that side. 

I tried to hide the messed up side in the shadow on purpose. I don't want people to know it's there!

Overall: LOVED THIS PROJECT

Will I do it again? 

As soon as I can find a home for another vase and a reason to do this craft again. 

(because seriously, I can't just have a collection of glass jars everywhere. 

*must have a purpose before crafting*

Wedding Monday - Scrabble

Some of those wonderful ideas found throughout
the vortex on the interwebs/pinterest

I planned my wedding with pinterest at my side. DH and I might not be the scrabble enthusiasts that others are, but we do enjoy a quiet game every now and then (I win, he looses, that's because my Grandma taught me well). We were having a mid day lunch wedding with the option of board games instead the traditional 'dancing' (DH does NOT dance).

So, with the following inspirations in mind, we went forward to create our own scrabble inspired wedding.

Table numbers were replaced with table letters and place cards received their own specialized scrabble letter magnet to find their sets.


For our tiles, I had my DH but out squares out of a plank of maple wood, then with stencils we carefully hand painted the letters. With 8 tables we had to choose a 8 letters --- naturally we choose our new last name - Bouwman, with table 8 being the blank tile, and we had the letters B & E.

As for our placecards you can bulk order scrabble tiles for an affordable price (I know have a massive quantity of scrabble letters. everything but b-o-u-w-m-a-n) and then glued magnets to them. The hardest part was matching up all the tiles to the place cards! Ah and then making them stay. I wonder what have been a better idea?