An Easy Recycle Project ... Right Under my Nose

I take approx 5 different herbs every day and a few others that I take once in a while , as needed. Well about a week ago I realized that some of these herbs come in nice glass bottles. They kind of remind me of the old apothecary bottles.

Isn't this a great glass bottle ... made only sweeter by adding this darling butterfly label.

The old label pealed of pretty easy on this bottle... no soaking in water or any of that annoying stuff.

I hope they all come off that easy ... because I plan on recycling every one of them:)

They make adorable little vases . They are even cute by them selves.

FREE STUFF ...I Love it !!!

On this bottle I made my own label using this graphic from the Graphics Fairy. For tips on attaching your label look HERE .

I'm going to do one in color too ... I love the green:)

I may recycle some of the plastic ones for things like paper clips, tacks, staples and such.

 I couldn't decide on which pictures to use... so I just put them all up.

So you have probably guessed, the next time I do my herb buying ...I will look for the ones in the glass bottles. 

So here is where my little free bottle ended up for now. It's on this ladder like shelf in my living room, next to a little bottle of seeds from my garden:) I would love to hear some of your recycling tips:)

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Vintage Dress Form

Hi .. I thought I would show you our latest find. It is this lovely vintage dress form.

I took her home and dressed her all up. I would like to eventually find a vintage corset for her... but for now this will have to do.

I'm not sure where her permanent place will be yet. What do you think ...do you feel that a dress form should be limited to a bedroom or craft room? I don't like to follow decorating rules ... so I guess she could end up anywhere:)

I used some anything clips and hung cute bird prints on the bottom of the form.

Here is a close up of the little sewing machine charm and Fossil bird cage charm , that were gifts from my 14 yr old daughter ... aren't they cute:)

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Inspired to do a faux Zinc Lamp

I had bought 2 of these brown lamps from overstock, thinking that I would paint them white or something.

I wasn't sure I would really like them brown. I lived with them brown for a while ... and I was right ...I just wasn't loving them brown. I remembered a great lamp redo, done by Flea Market Trixie . She did a faux zinc on lamps that were very similar to mine and they turned out wonderful. So I thought I would give it a try.

I sprayed them with a self etching primer in a dk grey. After they were dry, I added a little water in some white craft paint ... brushed on the watered down paint in one direction working around the lamp. I did about a two inch strip around at a time. Then I quickly wiped of the white paint with a paper towel. I repeated that all the way up the lamps until I was done.

They were really easy to do and I love the way they turned out.

I love lamp redos ... there are so many techniques and colors ... the sky s the limit.

The best part ... if I get board of these in a few years ... I can just repaint them :)

But for now I think they fit right in.

Now if only every project could be that quick and easy :)

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