An Easy Peasy Fun DIY Bowl you can make........

 

Hello Sweet Friends,

Hope this finds you all doing well and enjoying

April.........Wow, just another week and we will

be into May already!!  Shocking how fast this 

year is going!!

I told you while back about a fun project

my Daughter and I did when we went to

visit her back in March.  So I am gonna

finally show you what it is.....

They are bowls made of coffee filters.

I saw these supposed stoneware bowls

somewhere in blogland, and they were

 $54.00

and thought Wow, they look a lot like 

coffee filters to me, so decided to try

 it out myself, just for the fun of it. 

 Here she is all finished up....................

 

#1

 The first thing I did was take some

       coffee filters (About 15 or 20) from

        my kitchen but you can use any amount

        you want (for the thickness of what

                you want your bowl to be, or you can                use white ones....we had the  brown so                since I wanted to experiment to see if

        what I thought I could do was                      even possible...........

 

           Note:  At this point you might

       decide if you want to shape your bowl

        a lil wider or differently.  I wished I

           had thought of that afterwards. lol

 

P.S.  If you want to see how it looks

in white scroll all the way to the end

of this post.

#2

I got out a small paint brush and some

 elmers glue all, then painted around the 

rim to make sure all the edges were 

covered and would stick together well.

  I did 2-3 coats of the glue, cause

I didn't have any Modge Podge and

didn't have time to go get any, and

decided this would be a fun project

to do with my Daughter as well.

#3

Once you get some Modge Podge,

Set you bowl to be... upside down on

a can that it fits.  Like in the pic

below.

#4

Cover the top of the bowl with the

Modge Podge, then do the sides

you can put as thin or thick a coat

as you like, just know that the thicker

the coat the longer the drying time.

Then set it aside till it dries.

#5

Once it has dried, turn it right side

up and paint the bottom and sides

of the bowl.  Then set aside once

again till it dries.

#6

I put about 4 coats on the inside

and outside of the bowl, of course,

letting it dry between each coat.

and it made it quite sturdy.

You will be able to tell when 

you think it has had enought

coats.  May daughter put less

cause she put it on thicker.

and That's it......

now finds something

cute to put in it, a few examples

below.  Only dry things I might

add or you might have a thicky

mess.........  I don't really know, but 

probably best not to try it. lol

faux Strawberries

Poupourri

 maybe a bird nest.


or

Easter Eggs

and my Daughter said she was gonna

put shells in hers since she has a 

coastal look.....................

Oh, and once I got home I happened

on some large cupcake papers in my

cabinet, so decided to make a smaller

one to see how it looked in white.

Had these lil stick on rabbits, 

so just popped one in.....

The cupcake size could make a nice

earring or ring holder.

This would be a fun project to do

with your kids over the summer......

or anytime,  I am just thinking about

lil darling since she will be out of 

school soon.  lol

Also, just thought about how craft

Stores have those pretty cup cake

papers that are in prints and flowers

and stuff,  so that might really

be pretty.  Just looked online and

oh gosh they come in so many

different colors.  This would be a

fun thing for kids to make for their

Mom's for Mother's day as well.

Well, hope you try it out and have

fun doing it......nice project so you

can talk and paint all at the same

time.  I like that!!

Have a lovely rest of the week,

Hugs,

Nellie

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