Sunflowers in Glass Vase with Flameless Tea Light Candle

I had these glass vases on my mantle that I wanted to put sunflowers in but every time I put sunflowers in the vase they seem to just clump onto each other and did not look very cute.  I looked around the house for some ideas on how to get them to stand up inside the vase and look pretty.  I found a water bottle and the wheels started turning..... I gathered up my supplies and ...

Supply List
Glass Vase that is see through (diameter big enough to fit water bottle in)
Water Bottle
Scissors
Hot Glue Gun / Glue Sticks
Artificial Sunflowers with stems removed (I used 5)
Flameless Tea Light Candle

I cut the top off the water bottle just at the top so you can put the tea light in later.  (for a smaller vase you can cut the water bottle to size)

Let the hot glue gun warm up while removing the stem connectors from the artificial sunflowers.

Add glue to the back of the sunflower and stick it to the water bottle.  I started at the bottom and worked my way up.

Continue up to the top of the water bottle.  I only did one side because I am putting on the mantle and I wanted to be able to see the tealight glow.

I then put in a flameless tea light candle

Carefully stuff the bottle into the vase.  You can even crush the backside of the bottle if needed it will fix itself once in the vase.

Finished Product!  It would probably look better in a clear or lighter vase but I have purple and yellow accents in my livingroom so this is gonna me it for me :)

In darker room you can see the light coming through (photo really doesn't show how pretty it is)

I added a candle to the top and it is ready for the mantle!

You can easily just dump out the tea light to turn it on and off or you can remove the whole bottle.  Being that these vases are a always on my mantle I may use this same technique to make my Christmas mantle.  I will be doing a butterfly tree this year so maybe I will put butterflies in it....... the wheels are turning again OH NO....

Painted Glass Window

Well this project kind of came together by accident.  I wanted to frost my hallway/porch windows.  First I was gonna use some projects that I saw on Pinterest, then I was just going to spray frost them.  I ended up doing this.

You can see that my porch/hallway window was very blah and really had no view other then the neighbors garage and tree.  We like to stack our firewood next to it during the winter so we really didn't want to hang curtains.  My first thought was to get some spray frost and frost them, but I read somewhere that the clear Con-tact Magic Cover has a frosting effect on windows.  I had just saw some at the dollar store so figured what the heck... I would only be out a few dollars.

This is what the window looked like when I put the Con-tact Magic Cover on it.  It was pretty simple I just used the back of the Con-tact Magic Cover with the grid and cut the squares to size.  I then decided to paint an owl by just sliding a picture I liked under the contact paper and just using some watered down acrylic paint to paint it.  Even though it did its job it still seemed quite plain.

I then took a little watered down acrylic paint and in a swirling motion painted all the window pieces and I loved it.  The paint and Con-tact Magic Cover paper gave the window a matte look so I took some gloss varnish and I painted over them all as well.  When the sun shines through it looks beaHOOTiful.