~old bottle turned girly vase~

 I am going thru this phase where I want to

make everything in my house WHITE.

I want to buy a shload of white spray paint 

and just go to town. My brain is so consumed

with what I have to do each and every day

that it feels like I have a lot of clutter in my head.

Because of this, I am trying to diminish the 

real, tactile clutter in my house. I just want clean,

white, easy, breezy, beautiful (cover-girl),simple,

monochromatic EVERYTHING right now.

 

I actually love rooms where everything is white or

very muted and earthy. Just because a room

is all white doesn't mean it's boring. By using

many different TEXTURES of white stuff,

it looks interesting and multidimensional. 

Add in VERY FEW pops of color just in a 

couple little details and that's the look I 

am loving right now.

And now finally, the whole point of this post;

found this old bottle while up camping and decided

(of course) to spray paint it white. I thought I would

do something a little different and make stripes 

on it. It turned out like this:

Didn't like it. Even with a flower that isn't pathetic

and limp looking, it still looked weird and harsh.

So-I stumbled upon a great idea at the blog

"A Beautiful Mess" and knew immediately 

what I was going to do to salvage this cool bottle.

click (here) for their version

This is my version:

 Cover the stripes with white lace and buttons.

I had everything here on hand and did it in 10 minutes.

White on white with lots of texture.

 Doesn't it look lovely?

It's gone from being a weird old bottle I mucked up

with stripes to a feminine, delicate and 

fabulous VOZ (exaggerate that "O").

A nice little addition to my collection.

Next project on the docket this week:

lampshade re-vamp to fit this great little

vintage glass lamp base I found at Goodwill.