Pretty With Purpose Burlap and Birds

 Nothing better than good ol' Mason Jars

for Organizing and Storage!

 

 

 I had a large box full of mason jars and in my

quest to start doing something with all the stuff

I have collected over the years, I am determined

to do something with all of it! I have found tons

of stuff I didn't even know I had that I have stuffed

and saved in my pack rat nature! I have been trying

to make some sense in my craft and sewing room,

and realized I needed badly to get things organized!

Especially since our move...I can't find nothing!

 

With tons of little things all over the place, I need

to get it altogether in one place and in their own

containers. Then I MIGHT just know what I have!

And where it is when I need it!

 

So.....this box of mason jars was first

on the list to do something with!

 

I made some pretty candle holders and or flower vases

with a few using pretty spring floral napkins that

I decoupaged on, and added pearls and rhinestone

brooches to bling them up with. They turned

out pretty sweet. Those can be seen here. Now I'm going to

dress up a few for storing bits and bobs for the craft room.

 

Here I've made my first pin cushion topped containers.

I was pretty proud of these since I had no idea what I

was doing and had no directions to follow. I'm sure there

is a tutorial out there somewhere, but I didn't want to

spend hours looking. Once I'm in the mood I want

to just get started! And...how hard could it be lol!

 

I love burlap and have tons of that so I grabbed that

up along with some pretty bird fabric I bought long

while back. I decided I would use the fabric for the pin

cushion top and then do a flower for the front.

 

Then I found these pretty blue glass stones that were

once used in a flower vase. Thought they would bring

out the blue in the fabric so this would be perfect for

the flower centers. I took a paper bag and tore some

narrow strips of that and then glued that over in the

center of the  burlap. I ripped some strips of the fabric

...love doing that, then rolled and twisted to make the

flowers. I glued on the glass stones, then wrapped a few

strands of burlap around the whole flower and glued it

over the wide strip of burlap I had already wrapped

around the jar.

 

I then thought the paper needed something, and went

to get some of my stamps and some tea dye ink.

I stamped the words "create, inspire, and dream".

That's what a craft and sewing room is about isn't it?

Then the tops...which wasn't as easy to do as I thought.

I had one lid that was just a plain screw on lid...

the other was the regular canning lid...with the two pieces.

The two piece lid wasn't to hard at all. I cut a round of

the fabric making sure to get the bird right in the center.

I got some stuffing and laid it between the flat lid and

the fabric, then pushed it up through the screw on part

of the lid. Once I had enough stuffing in there, I slit the

edges of the fabric so far in all the way around so it would

fold over to the underside with no flurples and glued

it down. Then I ran glue all around the inside of the

twist on cap, and pushed the lid up through the screw

on lid and wala! It looked like a pin cushion. Then I

finished off the lid with a bit of trim.  

 

Not bad!!! And no flurples either!

 

 

This lid was a bit more....because it was just a regular screw

on lid, I was trying to figure out how I could make this one

with a pin cushion top too. So I got a brain idea! I save tin cans

along with the lids...thinking I would use the lids as fancied up

gift tags one day. Well one of those lids was gonna help me out

here. I took my fabric with the stuffing and put it over a dog

food can lid. It was just a tad tiny bit bigger than the jar

lid but it would work I think. I glued the edges under like

I did on the first one. Then I took and glued this on top of

the screw on lid. I added some trim around the outer edge

of the fabric to kinda frame it, and it worked great!

I added another strip of trim around the main lid like I had

done on the one before, and by golly.....it worked!

There was a couple of flurples, but overall, it was perfect!

 

I took some of my glass beads and stuck a pin through them

and made litte crowns for the birds too! Cute huh!?

 

I was pretty happy with the end result of my pin cushion

mason jars....and the colors are happy and Springy too!

 

These are holding all my tiny glass beads and wooden

beads. I had them spilling out of their bags all over the

place so this is perfect! Although I need to add more

jars just for storing beads. Didn't know I had so durn many!

 

I also have overloaded my pin cushion

so this works for all the pins I have, plus I won't have

to go digging through the several sewing boxes trying

to find them when I need them.

 

We're Happy!

 

Now to on to another type of dressing up for the last

remaining jars..... FINALLY!

I'm about over MASON JARS hehe!

I like lots of different looking things. And...

I don't like making the same thing over and over.

 

Well this was fun!

 

Hug's, Love, and Blessings!

 

Debi