Birdobelia, Flights Of Fancy

Fancy Jars

With lots of simple jars from the thrift store building up, full of my craft supplies, it was time to fancy them up with some purchased trinkets.

The supplies are a wide variety of metal charms, or trinkets some smaller, some larger.  The small ones would be perfect for anklets or bracelets, or glued on to something like a jar. Like these in fact!

The larger ones would be perfect for a necklace or key fob. 
Some are heavier than others, like the gigantic bug that could only be a june bug.

The lids to these jars are plastic, with a metallic finish on them. 

One of them has a clear plastic piece in the middle that has become scratched and unsightly.  Not any more!  The leaves that cover the damaged part prevent the eye from going deeper, and the clear plastic allows the leaves to be shown in silhouette, an added bonus.

Other pieces of the trinkets make a perfect flower, in three dimensions. These are several roundish pieces glued one on top of another.  One of the jars also had a sticker on it that left a mark, so this one got an extra layer which was salvaged off a lamp.

The jars are all going to be used as part of my display of garden art and porch decor for sale.  The one with the leaves is actually a candy jar, so can be placed either upright or on its side. I plan to used this one as a grab bag, where the customer reaches in, grabs several charms, and then pays for them.

There are a few other jars that I can fancy up, and you can bet I'll be watching for others to show up at the thrift store.

One that I have waiting in the wings is a spaghetti jar in the same style as the one top left in the picture above.  Stay tuned to see what I do with that one!

As always, the glue to use is E6000, for now.  It dries clear, even though it makes a mess of the fingers! See more about which glue I use for specific projects here, and why I recommend it.