August is that lovely month of transition where we?re enjoying those last days of summer but feeling the slow arrival of autumn. I was inspired to create some vases in a pale palette for my future fall mantel or table.
I had some florist vases tucked away in a box in a cabinet that I wasn?t using, the ones you donate to (or buy from) thrift stores. I wanted to reinvent them with an old world matte finish so I wondered if I could fake the finish and texture of earthenware with just paint and a surprising ingredient: flour from my pantry. Well, it worked.
 

To recreate you?ll need: glass vases or hurricanes, spray primer, craft paint (a few colors plus white), a few inexpensive chip brushes, all purpose flour, disposable cups, small stir sticks for mixing. The first step is to prime the glass. It?s been my experience that if you add paint to slippery glass without priming it first, it will easily scratch off. Better to use a spray primer that?s designed to adhere to glass to give your project a base layer. :)
 

I used two glass vases and two hurricanes I had in storage and added a little ceramic pitcher too. Once the primer was dry I was ready to paint them. I bought five different earth tone paint colors ranging from olive green to gray to taupe so they would all start with a different base color.

One the primer is dry, time to paint! Mix 1 oz. of craft paint with 1 tablespoon of flour and mix them together in a disposable cup. Cheap chip brushes are perfect for this pr...