Thrifty Thursday: Bright & Funky Spray Painted Vases {with Half-Baked Tutorial}

I love this idea.

LOVE IT!

So, I found glass vases in different sizes and textures at the thrift store, scarfed up a whole ton of them and endured the odd looks from the cashier lady sent to find me a box to cart them away in.

"Why are you buying all these vases?" she asked.

I told her my plan.

"I never would have thought of that," she said. I can't be certain she meant this as a compliment.

Okay, so back at home I threw down my spray painting sheet on the garage floor, whipped out my cans of Kryon, sat my vases (one at a time) upside down in the middle of the sheet and gave 'em about 3-4 thin (letting it dry between coats...you don't want the paint to run down the vase) coats of paint.  For the last coat, I turned the vase right side up and gave it a quick onceover, trying not to get the paint inside the vase just in case I actually want to put flowers in them at some point. (Did you catch that? That was my (kind of) tutorial.

I didn't get them all done in one day. I worked on them here and there. And I wasn't even totally sure I was going to like them.  But then I began lining them up... 

(Warning: There may be too many pictures of my insanely awesome vases.)

(Please ignore the ugly digital box antenae things. Yep. We're a bit old school.)

My boys keep saying, "Mom, those vases are really cool." Awww, they're they best.

Ack! Don't you just love the texture and the colors??!  My favorite is that little robin-egg blue bumpy one.

I've been wanting to add more color to my house and this was the ticket. And best of all it was so cheap! I snapped up these vases for a dollar each, except for the short fat red one on the end. It was a whopping $2.  Not bad for $11, right?

I'm thinking of adding some yellow vases into the mix as well.  Darn.  I guess I'll have to go back to the thrift store...

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