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Frosted Glass – Cheating

Let’s take frugal to a whole new level. As poor as us college kids are, we somehow always manage to scrounge up a few bucks for a bottle of wine or similar, yeah? yeah….

So lets take our now empty glass bottles and make them frosted! Cheap decoration for a small apartment or dorm room, and no one could guess how you did it either.

Hopefully the label of your bottle comes of easily and clean. Otherwise either soak it in hot soapy water or water+baking soda. Label should be fairly easy to remove then.

When your bottle is clean and dry, find yourself some Elmer’s Glue. Yup. Elmer’s Glue. Also, you’ll need food coloring, and disposable container (I used an empty gum container, how cheap am I? haha) and a foam paint brush.

All you need!

All you need!

This is so incredibly easy its seems so stupid that I haven’t been doing this for years.

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Dump maybe 1/4 c of glue in your container and add 2-3 drops of food coloring of your choice. Mix well.

Apply the colored glue as even as you can manage to your glass.

All glued.. er.. painted up!

All glued.. er.. painted up!

Allow to set until all the glue is completely dry. You’ll notice its now complete uniform! (In order to get this effect, be careful not to leave thick streaks anywhere, spread that stuff around!)

Almost there!

Almost there!

There you have it! DIY Frosted Glass Decor!

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DIY Jewelry Hanging Doohicky

Jewelry Hanging Doohicky

Yes, Jewelry Hanging Doohicky.

I literally sat here for 10 minutes trying to come up with a different name for it and my mind just blanked.

Anyways, this was great. Super easy and CHEAP and quick.

The supplies:

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97 cent curtain rod from Walmart

 

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A main color and subcolor spray paint. (couple bucks each)

 

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Decorative Shower Curtain Hooks (about $1 or so)

The first thing I did was spray paint the whole curtain rod with the metallic gold paint.

Then I taped off the design. Had I actually thought this through I would have used yarn or ribbon or painters tape of some kind. I was ill-prepared so I used paper that I had to cut into very thin strips and tape around the curtain rod. Yeah… It was tedious. But hey, it worked!

Tape it off!

Tape it off!

Then spray over your rod again, this time with the main color. In my case, it was gloss black.

Spray it again!

Spray it again!

Let it dry for about 10 minutes or so. You don’t want to wait too long or else you’ll risk peeling the paint when you remove the tape.

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Voila!

Perdy right??

Next I mounted it on the wall in my bathroom. (The curtain rods I bought had mounting hardware included). Then I hung the shower curtain hooks:

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Sorry for the crappy pictures. My camera got sand in the lens during vacation and is jammed, and my phone doesn’t take the best pictures…

Now I was ready for the jewelry!

Jewelry Hanging Doohicky

 

There you have it! Took no time at all!