Today is the last day of school for the boys for the Easter Holidays, they finish at 1:30pm. I have had quite a productive day so far - I have finished painting the lizards new house (finally) and its now drying ready to have the glue put on it to waterproof it. I have done 2 lots of washing up and 1 load of washing, plus todays pin.
For today's pin I have done another Halloween thing, I found this lovely apothecary bottle on pinterest but sadly there was no instructions just a link to the ladies etsy shop. This made me start thinking as to how I could make 1 and what I could use to get the flame effect. My inital thought was pillow stuffing and that is what I used.
I have a pillow that is in the craft box and used as stuffing for toys etc. I pulled some of the fibre stuffing out and started to colour it with sharpie pens - not as easy as it sounds as the fibres seperate, but I perservered with it and the final result is really good. I used a base of bright yellow and then added an orange and some red patches to it all and then re-did more yellow to get a nice flame effect (see pics below).
Obviously it's not quite finished as I need to print a label to stick on it when I get some ink and I also have a brass dragon necklace on its way from China to add to it. I'm also trying to work out whether I need the lid added to the jar with "fire" stuck on it or just glue the "fire" to the top of the jar. I'm really pleased with how it looks.
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