I love that God has surrounded me with amazing Christian women who love Him and love each other. These women keep me straight, pray with and for me and tell me when I “overd” This was a term we made up when we overdo things and strive too hard. And such was the DIY mason jar project. I overd.
Come with me on this journey……
I recently served with 10 incredible women to pull off a women’s event. I wanted to find something little for each of them to let them know how much I appreciate them but I wasn’t able to find anything in my price range to to mention I had waited until the day before our big event. So I settled on a box of adorable note cards. These in fact:
It was on the 10th notecard I had written that I had my epiphany. It went like this, “Heyyyyy, I bet I could make those jars!” So I quickly googled chalk painted mason jars and watched a 2-3 minute video. It was a DIY’er who whipped out some crazy cute jars. I was all in. Went to Walmart ready to purchase my supplies. I was most impressed when I heard DIY girl say to get the 120 to 130 sand bar. El cheap-o! I like that. But I looked and looked and couldn’t find it. So I asked where the $1.20-1.30 sanding bar was. The dude explains to me that she wasn’t referring to the cost but to the grain of grit on the sanding bar.
Oh.
Well okay. I totally heard that wrong but not a big deal. I can fork out a few extra bucks.
I get home with my mason jars, sanding bar that didn’t cost $1.20-1.30, chalk paint and faux flowers. I’ve never done faux flowers before. I tend to kind of pretty much hate every petal of a fake flower I’ve ever laid eyes on or tried to smell. But I actually found some cutie patootey ones at Walmart. I had a plan B if they weren’t decent. But I really didn’t want to break the 8th commandment in my neighbor’s yard. Thankfully Walmart came through.
So I cleared off the dining room table and was ready to crank out 12 chalk painted mason jars. How hard could this be? 2 minutes per jar (like the video) times 12 equals 24 minutes. Whoop whoop I’ll be finished before bed.
Enter the term “spliced video”. Time lapse or however you want to say it.
There was clearly days of work between each little segment that I didn’t pick up on. Multiple layers of paint and drying between. And sanding off paint from glass is not easy my friends. My hands were so sore after doing 12 jars that I was pulling out the prescription motrin from the broken leg days.
But I learned a new skill set that I never plan to use again in my life unless I make my own DIY video to torture other people by taping a 48 hour project in 2 minutes.
So yeah friends just be warned about the DIY videos.
I’m half way kidding about this. I didn’t hate it exactly that much and I might make another chalk painted mason jar if someone kidnapped me and taped me to a craft table and said to do it or they’d kill me then I would do it. Other than that you just gonna see plain ole clear mason jars.
So here they are …….be amazed please.
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