Herb jars mini vases Tutorial


I am taking part in the Feel Good Blogging Challenge which has been set by Alex Beadon. Being challenged to continue to push your boundaries, we have been set the challenge of making a tutorial. I have made previous tutorials  on my blog, but to come up with something with no warning, though initially terrifying ended up being truly invigorating!

So ladies and gentleman I would like to present my tutorial: How to turn used herb jars into mini vases for your home.

Level: Easy peasy! *

Make a cute selection of mini vases to display pretty feathers, seed heads etc.
Not only are they useful for displaying your bits, they are recycled and upcycled!


What you need: empty herb jars, and/or used reed diffuser bottles. Decorative materials such as washi tape, garden twine, pva glue, leaves,


  • First wash off the labels and clean the jars and bottles thoroughly to remove any sticky residue or oil.






  • Now is the fun bit – deciding how you want to decorate them. You can be creative with them as you want and get them to suit your own personal style.




In this example I have used washi tape on one, and simple garden string with a little shell I found on the beach for the other.


You could also pick up pretty leaves or petals and then stick them on the jars with coatings of PVA (which dries clear). If you have some plastic cote decorative spray, or a metallic sprays from previous projects, you could make a selection of bright colourful vases.
The possibilities are endless!


Once you have finished decorating your vases you can display all your pretty bits.


Idea: Why not make holiday memory vases? If you have collected bits from holiday, that bring you happy memories collect them all together to make a display (such as the vase with the washi-tape on, which has a collection of colourful keepsakes from our recent holiday in Greece).


Once you have made yours I would love to see your finished pieces. Please come back here and share them with a link to your page, or post them to my Facebook page here* for everyone to see!

Happy Making!

Andrea


4 comments:

  1. Ohh! These are super cute! This is such a good way to recycle your left over bottles! I love your idea at the end. Making these for holiday decorations or themes is also a really cute and good idea! Thank you for sharing!

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    1. Thanks so much for your lovely comment. Really glad you liked it!

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  2. This is so cute! I loved "level: easy peasy!" hehe :)

    Arica, xxo
    www.varnakandlollies.com

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    1. Arica. Thanks so much for commenting! Be lovely to see yours if you make any.

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