So its not just about sewing.. is what I realised. I also like random painting and by that I mean painting my style (no techniques involved)
My mother-in-law buys a lot of honey from her friends in Madikeri (Coorg district) for my daughter. Coorg is very famous for its natural forest grown spices like cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, coffee etc. Honey is also one of their specialities and when bought in bulk it always came in wine bottles.
Being someone who doesn't want to throw away much I decided to recycle these bottles in a creative way (sadly theres nothing that can be stored in those bottles)
While I was watching some DIY videos on YouTube, I saw a beautiful tutorial on how to upcycle wine bottles into lamps and thats exactly what I did with two of the honey bottles :)
We had to run around to drill a hole into the bottle where the cord was to be inserted. It seemed so easy on the tutorial video but no one in Mysore was willing to drill as they said the bottle will crack.
But my mother-in-law (who is a big supporter of my craft work and without whom it would have been close to impossible to make the lamps) had persistently requested a guy who was half-willing and got it done for me. A BIG THANKS to her!
I bought some gold paint and painted the bottles, decorated it with few red plastic flowers and added some coloured fish-tank stones to make it look good.
BTW, the lamp shade is from MOTHER EARTH.. I did not paint it :D
My mother-in-law buys a lot of honey from her friends in Madikeri (Coorg district) for my daughter. Coorg is very famous for its natural forest grown spices like cardamom, cinnamon, pepper, coffee etc. Honey is also one of their specialities and when bought in bulk it always came in wine bottles.
Being someone who doesn't want to throw away much I decided to recycle these bottles in a creative way (sadly theres nothing that can be stored in those bottles)
While I was watching some DIY videos on YouTube, I saw a beautiful tutorial on how to upcycle wine bottles into lamps and thats exactly what I did with two of the honey bottles :)
We had to run around to drill a hole into the bottle where the cord was to be inserted. It seemed so easy on the tutorial video but no one in Mysore was willing to drill as they said the bottle will crack.
But my mother-in-law (who is a big supporter of my craft work and without whom it would have been close to impossible to make the lamps) had persistently requested a guy who was half-willing and got it done for me. A BIG THANKS to her!
I bought some gold paint and painted the bottles, decorated it with few red plastic flowers and added some coloured fish-tank stones to make it look good.
BTW, the lamp shade is from MOTHER EARTH.. I did not paint it :D
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