Humans need some kind of motivation to start and end their day. If you ever think of it, consciously or sub-consciously we all have a strong motivator which drives us to do what we do, on a daily basis. Obviously the motivators depend on what stage of life you are in but more importantly are based on your ever changing interests.
Amongst the most obvious motivators, such as learning something new, travelling, food and money; the three constant motivators for me have always been Coffee (not just lots but pots of it!), Art & Love, not necessarily in the same order.
I have read somewhere that the first thing that you think of when you wake up in the morning and the last thing that you think of before you go to sleep is your true love. For me, for now, its coffee. Fortunately my husband is also a filter coffee lover. I don't know if he was a coffee lover before he met me but he is definitely one now!
Lot of things have gone down in the past three months but our love for coffee has only gone up and so have the empty coffee bottles. Not just 1, 2 or 3 but 5 (+5 more in the pantry ๐ฌ).
I don't have to say that, for me, the empty glass bottle was an empty canvas waiting, from one motivation - coffee (which my family & friends say is a border line obsession) to another, it was a sweet deal to refuse!
While the obvious choices for using an empty, wide neck glass bottle are either a planter or a holder of some sort, I wanted to decorate each coffee bottle separately so it becomes a unique decor of its own kind.
Also wanted to try something different and something that I haven't done before, so I dared to do a small mandala on the glass with dots. It looked easy to do and I can make it as colourful as I want to, so decided on that idea for the first bottle.
The first bottle was to be used as a holder which will sit in my husbands work desk so I decided to paint the bottle black to accentuate the shape and not leave it transparent, as in, just as glass.
So step 1 was to clean the bottle, remove the label, clean and dry it properly to get rid of coffee stains inside the glass. And I painted the outside using Little Birdie's Black Chalk paint which I got from Itsy Bitsy. (Apparently you can make chalk paint at home too but I'll let you google that one ๐). Chalk paint is best to use on glass as you don't need to do multiple coats and you get a neat Matt finish. There are also glossy black chalk paints but I am in love with anything that has Matte finish.
For the dots I used Rangeela Tempera colours which my daughter received as a return gift from school on occasion of one of her classmates birthday and I decided to use that as its been just lying in my stationery trunk for months now. You can use any acrylic colour for this purpose.
Amongst the most obvious motivators, such as learning something new, travelling, food and money; the three constant motivators for me have always been Coffee (not just lots but pots of it!), Art & Love, not necessarily in the same order.
I have read somewhere that the first thing that you think of when you wake up in the morning and the last thing that you think of before you go to sleep is your true love. For me, for now, its coffee. Fortunately my husband is also a filter coffee lover. I don't know if he was a coffee lover before he met me but he is definitely one now!
Lot of things have gone down in the past three months but our love for coffee has only gone up and so have the empty coffee bottles. Not just 1, 2 or 3 but 5 (+5 more in the pantry ๐ฌ).
I don't have to say that, for me, the empty glass bottle was an empty canvas waiting, from one motivation - coffee (which my family & friends say is a border line obsession) to another, it was a sweet deal to refuse!
While the obvious choices for using an empty, wide neck glass bottle are either a planter or a holder of some sort, I wanted to decorate each coffee bottle separately so it becomes a unique decor of its own kind.
Also wanted to try something different and something that I haven't done before, so I dared to do a small mandala on the glass with dots. It looked easy to do and I can make it as colourful as I want to, so decided on that idea for the first bottle.
The first bottle was to be used as a holder which will sit in my husbands work desk so I decided to paint the bottle black to accentuate the shape and not leave it transparent, as in, just as glass.
For the dots I used Rangeela Tempera colours which my daughter received as a return gift from school on occasion of one of her classmates birthday and I decided to use that as its been just lying in my stationery trunk for months now. You can use any acrylic colour for this purpose.
I used pencil bottoms, chopsticks and tooth picks to differentiate between the circle sizes for the dots. You can also see that, in the picture in left, I have left the mouth of the bottle unpainted. I wanted to have a border of some sort so I left it open to fill a later point in time, after seeing how the painting shapes up. Later I painted it gold as it looked a befitting match to black.
As I made a small mandala, there was a lot of empty space in the back of the bottle which was bugging me. So instead of making another mandala, I painted a small peacock feather with flute. My husband now uses it in a way that he rotates the bottle 180 degree if he wants a change of scenery.
Giving you a closer look at the mandala.
Hope you enjoyed the post! ๐ until I pick up the next bottle!
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