So I had these Erlenmeyer flasks (laymen term: glassware for a lab) I salvaged from a "garage sale" in the hallway of my work a while back. I decided they needed to be blue. I bought blue glass paint online (The kind that people use to make regular colored Mason jars look like the cool colored Mason jars.) I tried to paint my flasks that way. It did not work. Not to say the product is no good, I just think its hard with a weirdly angled container to try to get the liquidy paint evenly swirled inside the glass.
So I scratched that idea and used just regular paint (the same kind I used to make the letters) to color these guys happy. It obviously gave an opaque look instead of being transparent like the glass paint would have, but I super like it! I painted the inside of the glass so that it looks smooth from the outside and so that you can still see the flasks graduations (laymen term: little lines that show how full your container is, like on a measuring cup.)
Hence the final product. I'm not sure If I will use these for the wedding or not. I think it would be a quirky touch to personalize the wedding if they were sporadically used as vases on the tables. We'll see! But for now I think they look super cute on my dresser, sprinkled between ones that I decided not to paint.
Bonus pic: My dog looking awesomely happy with his head out the window
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