I was cruising around
Pinterest the other day and stumbled across a great project that I knew I had to try!
We do a bunch of entertaining and so this would really be great for keeping everyone's wine glasses straight. I used to have some of those little charms but they always get lost or broken. This seems like a perfect alternative as we always have chalk around.
First, I grabbed one of the wine glasses from our caterer's box set.
I wrapped some painters tape around the stem just to make sure the chalkboard paint didn't go up any higher than I wanted.
I poured my chalkboard paint into a little plastic container and got ready to dip.
Because my wine glasses are not completely flat on the bottom, there was a lot of extra paint but I just kept tilting it a little bit to let the extra paint run off. Once it was dry, I primed it by rubbing chalk over it and then rubbing it off.
Finally, I was ready to write on it so I grabbed my piece of chalk and wrote my initials.
I will be ordering
chalk ink markers
to make it easier to write but this definitely worked. Now, only 17 more to go.
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What a great idea! Glad you shared it.
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This is a terrific idea! I was going to make these but my husband wasn't sure if he'd like them. I'm kind of glad I didn't do it now since it doesn't seem to really work with regular chalk. Yours look great, I hope the chalk marker works better for you.
ReplyDeletebrilliant idea. A friend told me you could write on the bottom of a glass with a sharpie to differentiate between them. Can't wait to see how these turn out.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first time I've seen this on the blogs. Fun!
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Thanks for sharing at Dwell on Fridays!
ReplyDeleteThat is so fun!! I love it! Thanks for sharing this as well at Thursday's Temptation.
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A great variation to keep track of your glass! I didn't realize the chalk paint came in those little bottles, either. Now I really will try a project with it. Thanks for linking up and sharing <3
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Great idea!! I will definitely be making some of these for my girlfriends!
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Thanks for linking up! I just shared this project on my fb page: http://www.facebook.com/seevanessacraft
ReplyDeleteOkay, so I've seen the final product of this, but was like how-the-heck do you do that. GREAT pictures and how-to. Thank you!!
ReplyDeleteI'm back.. :) I just thought - what a perfect, personalized, + table seating idea/guest gift for my wedding!! Right!?
ReplyDeleteLove this... and love Pinterest. I can't get enough of it!
ReplyDeletewhat a great idea! Love it
ReplyDeletei didn't know that they made little bottle of chalk paint like that! thanks for sharing at tip-toe thru tuesday!
ReplyDeleteHow adorable!! What a clever idea! You are gonna love the chalk markers! Thank you for sharing at Uncommon! Bonnie :)
ReplyDeleteHa! I was going to do this for the pinterest challenge as well but changed my mind! Yours turned out great! I'm still going to try it out.
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I love that you actually dipped these rather than just giving them a 'dipped look'.
ReplyDeleteCool! And so much cheaper than the ones you'd buy at Pier 1 or the like. Thanks for linking up again!
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