"Now That There's Classy, Right There!"

At my family reunion this summer, my Aunt Barb told me she had a bunch of mason jars for me to use for crafting. I forgot to get them when I left, but she sent about 40 of them home with my parents. I didn't have any particular plans for the mason jars, so the great mason jar crafting search began.

 

Then I ran across the coolest crafting idea ever! This post by Melinda of White Water Crafting,  who made used a mason jar and a candlestick to make redneck wine glasses! I just had to make a set of these myself.
 

How cool are these?

Of course, Melinda used pint size mason jars and all I had were regular wide mouth mason jars. Lucky for me, I have family and friends that feed my crafting addiction. My sister Jennifer, texted me one afternoon to tell me she has a bunch of mason jars for me. I didn't realize until I went to get them that they were the pint size ones, which made me so happy! 

So I washed them out really well, sanded both the bottom of the jars and the top of the glass candlesticks that I'd picked up from the dollar store, and glued them together with E600.   

 

I have the perfect person to give this set to, but I might have to make a few more sets for Christmas. I know one brother who will be hoping I draw his name for our annual Christmas gift drawing this year. (Yes, Jonathan, I'm talking about you.) 


***Updated 10/25/11: I now have a few sets of these glasses, as well as individual glasses, available for sale in my new Etsy shop! You can find them here. ***





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Not Your Average Tea Party!

Amazing Boyfriend should know by now that he should never let me go into thrift stores. I don't think I've ever been (at least since we moved back to our hometown) that I've left empty handed. Our most recent venture is no exception. 

ABF wanted bigger coffee mugs then the tiny ones that his Mom has in her kitchen. So while he was looking at the coffee mugs, I was looking at the other side of the aisle, which had sets of teacups and saucers banded together. There are a bunch of them, but I selected one that the pattern wasn't that faded and picked it up.

"What are you going to do with that?" ABF asked, when he saw what I was carrying. 

My response, "I have a project idea." 

Smart guy that he is, just sighed and kept wandering down the aisle. 

So I bought my cute little teacup and saucer and made it into a pincushion and magnetic pin saucer.

Wanna see how I did it? 

Supplies:
teacup and saucer 
hot glue or super glue or E6000
scrap fabric
needle and thread
polyfil or pillow stuffing
round magnets (optional)


First trace out a 9 inch circle on your fabric. I often use random objects that I find around the house to trace with. For this project, I found that a paper plate worked. My teacup is about 4 1/2 inches so I doubled the size to come up with 9 inches, but if your cup is a little bigger, adjust the size of your circle accordingly.

Cut out your circle. When you have your circle, thread your needle and sew a long running stitch along the edge of your circle. 

Gently pull on your thread to make a pouch-like bag.  Don't sew it closed. Leave it open to be able to add the stuffing.

Carefully fill your "pouch" with your poly-fil or pillow stuffing. Make sure to get it nice and packed. When you have a full "pouch", pull your thread to close the "pouch" and stitch closed. 

When your pouch is closed, it's time to glue it into your cup. You could use super glue or hot glue, but I just used E6000 for this project. 

When my tea cup was finished, I glued it to the saucer using E6000. 

This part is totally optional, you could just stop with the pincushion, or just stop when you glue the saucer and the cup together, but I wanted to add something else to this project that made it even more useful. I glued magnets to the under side of the saucer to secure pins to the saucer instead of having them roll around on the saucer. 

Then you're finished! And you have a cute and unique pincushion and pin plate.

Technically, if you know you're going to make a magnet saucer or just glue the saucer to the teacup, you could do that part first, before you make your pincushion, but that part is completely up to you. Any way you do this, you'll have an adorable and unique little pincushion. 


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