September 13th 2015 - Potion bottles

September 13th 2015 - Potion bottles

It's not that long until Halloween now.  At the beginning of the year I started making some potion bottles for my friend.  I had loads more empty bottles to use but just hadn't got round to doing them.  I  have spent today making some more bottles and finishing off a few of the others.

I'm really pleased with how they are looking, once they are dry they will be moved up to the box in the loft with the rest as i'm not sure if halloween is happening at my house or my friends where it is meant to be.

All bottles and jars have had medicine, herbs, air freshner  or something in  and have not been bought to use.

April 1st 2015 - Making fairy wings

April 1st 2015 - Making fairy wings

9months today will be January 1st 2016!  That is crazy, time is going to quickly.

For today's pin I have had to make it myself as I couldn't find 1 that linked to my idea.  I am in the process of making more Halloween Potion Bottles/Jars - this 1 is for Fairy Wings.  There are lots of threads about making them from plastic and celophane etc, all of which you have to buy and then buy the special paints, my way you only need go outside and find the bits.

First off you need to find some of the "helicopter leaves" - I have no idea what tree they are from, I don't even have any trees in my garden but have loads of the "helicopter bits".  Not sure what I mean,  well these things:

Unfortunately I haven't got any that are still joined together mine are all individual, but this will work just as well as "snapped fairy wings".  From the above you need to make sure they are dry (I left mine on the lizards tank for couple hours).  You then need to get some pens, I used sharpies and carefully coloured the "wing part" on both sides, some did fall to bits whilst colouring so I just binned them.

There isn''t any pictures of the coloured "wings" but once I had coloured them in on both sides, in pairs, I started with the silver glitter nail varnish and very carefully applied it on both sides, one at time allowing time to dry.  They are very delicate but the nail varnish gives them a bit more strength.

I think they look really effective and my kids said they look as though they "could belong" to fairies,  which is what I was hoping for.

They still need to go in a jar, but they are nearly done, need to get a few more made as well.

March 27th 2015 - Dragon's Fire potion jar

March 27th 2015 - Dragon's Fire potion jar

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.