Glitter Jars, Part Deux: Son of Glitter Jars

Damn you, Michael's!

That's right.

We graduated.

Because mason jars just weren't cool enough yet, I found these fake lightbulb bottles with flat bottoms at Michael's. 40% off sale? Yeah. Yeah, we'll go for that. Those huge packages of glitter with every color in the rainbow (in several different shades, I might add) are $5, and you can use your 40% off coupon on them, hint hint. The bottle of glue was about $4, which was more than I wanted to pay, but it worked really well. I have seen other people use clear Tacky glue gel. I was prepared to use the whole bottle, as some other crafters have suggested, but I ended up using about half the bottle for all 3 jars combined. I guess that's the little bonus you get for using smaller jars.

'Cause dat glue is expensive, yo. Then again, I'm cheap.

So in news no one cares about, I'm taking a break from packing. Taking a trip down to Indio to visit some relatives of Husband's visiting from Canada. I've still got a bunch of stuff to do, a little shopping trip, and a shower waiting for me, but who has time for that when you've got a blog post to write? I told Husband I was going to try to write an entry a day, but I've already screwed that up. Every other day?

Yeah. I meant every other day.

Anyway.

Look at all that majesty. For the curious, that's about 2 drops of blue food coloring, 2 tbsp of clear glue and 1 tbsp of glitter glue, with a whole lot of glitter dumped on top. The bottles themselves are colored, this one blue, so the dye really just darkened it. I used silicone to seal it, and so far no leaks, even with a lot of vigorous shaking. I did that one yesterday, it's nice and shake-able today. Doesn't it look nice in the window there? Yeah. Very nice.

Here's the green and yellow ones filled. Notice the difference there in their relative color and opacity. I have read on some blogs that the milky quality of the water is caused by using glitter glue. I have plans to test that theory before too long. I don't think it honestly could have been the food dye that I used, but who knows. I didn't use any glitter glue or dye in the green or yellow bottles. I used so much glue in them that some of the glitter never sinks. Perfect! Though some of the larger glitter particles settle almost immediately.

'Til next time, crafters!

Cat