Crafty Time!

I haven’t had a chance to blog in a while and also not a whole lot has been going on since Matias and I have moved to Sugar Land. We absolutely love living here and we both love our jobs and the people we get to work with.

I just recently got promoted to Replenishment Analyst for Women’s Athletic Apparel (after only working as a Merchant Assistant for less than 4 months) and get to move this coming Monday (October 1^st). I am extremely excited for this opportunity!

This past weekend my parents came up to celebrate my promotion and to use some of their extra vacation days. I also took off to enjoy more time with them! On Saturday Matias and my dad went to the Texas A&M football game vs. South Carolina State while my mom and I stayed home and did some Christmas decorations/crafting. We were only able to get through 2 out of the 3 crafts that we had picked out to try.

Glittery Wine Bottles with Christmas Words

Things you need

• Wine Bottles
• Goo Gone
• Glittery Spray Paint/Glitter Paint/Glitter (three different shades of color)
• Clear Spray Paint
• Mod Podge
• Sitck-on Letters

First try to remove the label from the wine bottle. Let it soak in hot water for at least 10 minutes and it will make it much easier to remove the label. If any of the goo is still left use goo gone to remove it. I recommend soaking the bottles for another 10 minutes after using goo gone so the bottles are so slick otherwise the paint will slide right off. Then let the bottles air dry for at least an hour.

Then try painting the bottles with the glittery spray paint/glitter paint or make your own by mixing glitter with modge podge. We first used glittery spray paint but noticed that the air from the can was making some areas have globs of paint and leaving other areas with very little paint. I recommend if you use the spray paint to still go over it will a paint brush to try and smooth out some of the areas otherwise go over it with some glitter paint of the same color after it dries. I recommend letting this dry overnight and looking at the results the next morning and seeing from there. It is very important to make sure that all of this is dry to see what needs to be fixed later.

We then re-sprayed the bottles with a clear spray paint to seal in the glitter and also so the letters would stick down better (this did not make the letters stay down better because of how hot it was in the garage). I then went over the letters and some of the bottle with mod podge to make sure the letters stayed down. I would recommend doing at least 3 layers of this.

Even though this turned into a three day project I think our bottles turned out really well.

Christmas Frappuccino Bottles

Things you Need

• Frappuccino Bottles
• Goo Gone
• White Spray Paint/White Gloss Paint
• Mod Podge
• Stick-on Letters
• Christmas Stickers

As soon can see we used a lot of the same stuff as the project above so it made it really easy to be working on this project while we were waiting on the spray paint to dry. First we cleaned the frappuccino bottles and got off the labels. If you use the Target brand bottles the label is just plastic and peels right off instead of having to remove any of the stickiness that the Starbucks brand leaves behind.

We then spray painted the bottles with white spray paint. I recommend placing them upside down and letting the paint drip down to get a more even coat. I did a couple of coats of this but we were still not happy with the evenness of the coats, so we went back over it with white gloss paint. (I recommend using sponge brushes and not brushes with bristles because it won’t leave streaks.)

After letting this dry we applied the stick-on letters and Christmas stickers. (I did not have the color I was wanting in the letter so I painted them the color I wanted.) We then went over the stickers with mod podge to make sure they were down good. Now all we need is some fake flowers/glitter beads to put in them and they will be complete.