APOTHECARIES Jars! Just a fancy way of saying a vase with something glued to the bottom!

Okay ladies, hopefully you have made your way over to:  Just a woman and a wheel!  February's Titus 2, rocked as usual!  If you haven't made it to one yet, please come.   Okay so back to my part, the last part, the craft part!!! 
Here's what you need:

1. Glass vase/jar, any size, any shape, any style, remember the mason jar full of beans,  from anywhere...
2. Something to give it height...hmmmm what to put as options....glass candlestick holders, wooden candlestick holders, votive holders, martini glasses, ice cream bowls and if you are lucky enough to have someone give you fence finials use them!***my one disclosure about your "bottom" choices***  just like a good pair of jeans, make sure your bottom fits!  Not the bottom of the vase but the weight of the vase.  If you put a big ole vase on a small holder, it will tip over and probably break!
3. I recommend E6000 glue, you can get it at Walmart or Michaels/ACMoore

You like pictionary?  Here's how I give directions...



Picked up 2 glass candleholders, they were only 50 cents NOT $1.29!





I put the glue around the lip of the top, not too much so you don't have clumps around the end, turned one upside down and put it on top of the other one!




Here is the glass vase I placed on top! J'aime les magasins à un dollar, yes that's right a dollar store vase!!!!  Viola an apothecary jar!!!!





What's the Bling???  I used curtain rings and scrapbooking letters!!! Oh yeah and some 1.5" satin ribbon! 

January 2011 Magazine Holders!

Here is the one project- I could NOT do!  But don't let that discourage you from trying.  Three things I can't do:  Bake/decorate cakes, make homemade biscuits and gift wrap!  This is very much so like wrapping a gift, which should have been my first inkling- I couldn't do it.   So rather than post a picture, here's the link to the ones done right!
The only addition I made to mine, was a little "bling".  I add a fender washer (not sure what its for- a car or an appliance -but Ace Hardware has them!) I tied a ribbon through the hole and glued it to the front of the holder!!
Click this link! Way better than mine!- Magazine Holders!

November 2010- Jack be nimble... Jack be quick...Jack made 4 x 4 Candlesticks!

Where did I get the idea?  Right here: 
4 x 4 Candlesticks...

What did I change...the supply list.  The toppers cost about $2.74 each!  I made mine out of left over pieces of MDF and a chop saw, so mine were FREE!!!!... Now that part I don't expect you to do unless you know how to use power tools, which if you don't, you should!  Its AWESOME!  Think outside the box on this part or just leave them plain with no topper or bottom-er!  I brought in ones with clay saucers on the top, but as I am writing this post I am thinking how much better they could have looked if I had added some to the bottom too!

Paint them, spray paint them, stain them, whatever you want to do with them.  Stencil them, stamp them, sticker them (kids will love to help with that!)  Seriously they make beautiful monogram letters now in sticker form so that would be very personalized and beautiful........

PS- check the cut bin in the back at Home Depot.  I paid 51 cents for my post! 
PSS- if you do that, leave me some too please! Jesus says share!

October 2010 First Titus 2 Craft- Fabric Pumpkins!

You need: 
*-a FULL role of toilet paper
*-a square piece of fabric (or not!) but you need enough to do some wrapping around and stuffing down,   *-plastic grocery bags and
*-a knotty stick from your yard or someone else's! 
-this is just an Andrea note- I use a wooden dowel or a wooden spoon to push the fabric down with.... 

Just in case I totally confuse you on my post...Here is where I got the idea!
http://hopestudios.blogspot.com/2008/10/totally-pumpkin-afternoon.html
For another option, I love these: 
http://bloggingwithholly.blogspot.com/2009/08/more-requests-for-pumpkins.html

Okay so back to mine!  And just remember the dual purpose these serve:  Decor and necessity!  If you run out of toilet paper and can't get to the store right away, grab a pumpkin- undo the fabric first!

Take your fabric and lay it out on a flat surface.
Put the toilet paper in the middle of the fabric.
Take your grocery bags and scrunch them up.  Use as many as you want or as few since you determine how full the pumpkin will be.. 
Pull your fabric up around the bags and toilet paper and stuff into the hole of the paper roll.  Here is where I often use a wooden dowel or a spoon!  Work the fabric into the hole until its completely covered and looks like a pumpkin!  Push the knotty stick into the hole and add a silk leaf if you want!!!!! 

You can add ribbon around the stem or a metal curly thingy or whatever to dress it up... 
Just remember God doesn't make perfect pumpkins, so if your is a little "not perfect" don't worry.  God makes things that way so they are unique and beautiful, just like us!