Festive Holiday Centerpiece

My last post was about a pinterest fail; I am glad to share this is a success.... with a lesson learned. I am sure you have come across at least one site that tells you all of the fun crafts you can do with a wine bottle. I absolutely love it- now not only can I drink the wine, but I can reuse the bottle too! It's like the settlers how they tried to use every last bit of the animal or plant- let nothing go to waste. Okay, maybe that was a bad analogy. But, I just love the idea of reusing bottles- plus they have such a nice look to them already. 

I decided for the holidays I would make a centerpiece for my dining room table. I don't have many spots for centerpieces or decor in my apartment- I don't have a mantle, I don't have many shelves that aren't used already, so my dining room table was the perfect spot. I wanted my centerpiece to be different heights so I mixed two different size wine bottles and added three red stripe bottles...and wah la! 

I started with my plain bottles and added a base primer. As you can see I left the labels on. I recommend take the extra time to remove the labels. It's not awful and not that noticeable, but would make it that much better. I guess leaving the labels on was my signature touch!


After the primer, I decided to paint the wine bottles black. I put about 3 coats on each bottle. If you remove the label, you probably wouldn't need that many, but again I left the labels on thus having to try and cover it. 

 The black went on very smooth and looks great! For the Christmas holiday (or maybe even New Years) I want to add some glitter. Love me some SPARKLE!!

Finally, here is the final project! I bought the leaves at Michaels for about $1, so in total the whole project cost be $1. Of course, I already had the paint, primer and wine on hand! 


Now, for the lesson learned. So besides make a centerpiece I wanted to make a place to store all of my corks. Because any good pinner knows you need lots of corks for all of your DIY projects! I had an extra apple sauce jar on hand, so I thought this would be perfect. I thought I would do the same type of thing with the paint, except I could add stripes to give it some color.

Again, I began by putting a base of primer. Well, first I actually took the time to remove the label, then added the primer. I liked the look of the sand and thought it would go perfect on display. So, like the Red Stripe, I painted the jar a sandy color. 

Because I love pink, I decided to add a few stripes of pink. Here is where the lesson is learned. For all you newbie DIYer's, when you use painters tape you MUST remove the tape while the paint is still wet. No one ever told me and I decided to dive right in instead of researching. I mean, who thought you would need to do some reading before painting?! Well, when you leave painters tape on paint and let it dry, when you go to pull it up...you run the possibility of losing half of your paint. Let's just say my applesauce jar is now covered in colored hemp :)

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