Beer cap centerpiece

I have been working on a beer cap centerpiece. If you don't have all the beer caps at once, it might take some time. I bought a centerpiece tray from Hobby Lobby for $20 and I have collected beer caps throughout the past semester. I also bought cream and burgundy spray paint for the bottle caps. The spray paint takes about 20 minutes to dry and then I super glued them to the bottom of the centerpiece. Once I have all the caps, I will cover the entire thing in a shellac to fill in the spaces between each cap. I will post progress as I get close to finishing.....

9/1 - I currently have one more line to do an then I will add the shalack over the top and hope that it stays. I'm thinking either a candle centerpiece covered in sticks around the outside or a tall glass container with pinecones or a candle for the middle. This project is taking much longer than I thought because the collection of the bottle caps is something that I did not think about.

Pinteresting Craft - Candlestick poof ball

I went to a craft store here in town and bought an 89 cent styrofoam ball, 200 cupcake wrappers, 200 sewing pins, hot glue and a candlestick holder. This one took me much longer than I anticipated and was quite frustrating. I wish I had known how particular I was going to be about how it looked before I started. The hard part about this was that the pins had to go in at an angle, hopefully not interfering with the other pins already in the styrofoam. Once the cupcake wrappers were in, it was difficult to get the pin all the way down so that the wrapper stayed nicely in line with the others.

Hot glue is a much better way to get the styrofoam to stay than sticky glue. Since the candlestick was glass, it needed to be securely on there. I highly suggest hot glue, lots of patience and lots of pins and cupcake wrappers.

Baked Ceramic

I went to the dollar store, bought 4 plain ceramic mugs and 6 plain ceramic plates. I saw on Pinterest that if you take a permanent marker and draw whatever design you would like on ceramic, and bake it at 350 degrees, it will become permanent. As far as the blog post I read, it is permanent enough to with stand microwaving and dishwashing. I just gave one as a present to a co-worker so hopefully it stands up. Here are some of the ones I did.....