DIY Vase with Flowers

Good evening my fellow crafters! Hope you all are having a pleasant evening! I'm sorry I have not been posting as regularly as I should but I have been busy trying to get ready for teacher's college and completing other tasks that need to be done. Anyway, tonight's craft is fairly easy to do and would make an excellent gift for a friend or family member or even if you just need a little color in a room in your apartment or house.

Things you will need:
- wine bottle
-dried flowers
-hairspray
-scissors

Step 1:
Clean the wine bottle out. Instead of throwing them in the recycling, wash them and let them dry. There are hundreds of websites with ways to reuse old wine bottles. So next time you have a party or get-together, think about what you can do with the empties instead of throwing them out.

Step 2:
Once the bottle is dry, decide how you want to decorate the outside. I left the labels on mine because iI felt like it gave it that vintage feeling. It was also a nice bottle of wine.

Step 3:
If you are like me and love it when your boyfriend or husband gives you flowers, and you are always wanting to save them, try doing this instead. When they start to die, take them out of the vase and hang them individually or in small bunches upside down. This dries them out. Once they are dry, (it usually takes a day or two) coat them in hairspray. You may want to do two coats of hairspray, just to be safe!

Step 4:
Once the hairspray has dried, (it usually doesn't take that long) trim the stems. In mine, the stems were already different lengths so I staggered the heights. Then put them in the top of the wine bottle. Be careful as the flowers are fragile due to being dried out. I had to put mine in nearly all at once because they wouldn't fit otherwise.

Step 5:
Once that is done, give it another coat of hairspray (if you feel it needs it) and then place it where you want it to sit.

This isn't a very time consuming project but it makes for nice decor especially if you dry the flowers out before they start to wilt. It will instantly give any room a pop of color. It is also so versatile that it can be done for a child's room as well. All you have to do if spray paint a cool design on the bottle and follow the rest of the steps. Hope you enjoy this one! I certainly did seeing as I did it right before company came over! Happy Crafting!!!