Hello Friends!
In this post I want to indicate and elaborate the magnificent ways to refurbish and upcycle the plentiful of vases you pass up every time you enter the thrift store!
Creating imperfect to perfect!
Shopping eco-friendly and sustainable is what LC is about. Let me show you the great ways to create such an amazing piece for your table setting, countertop or corner bathroom decor!
Jumping into it:
You need 3 items to make this project happen! Only three!
- Any second-hand vase of your choosing
Each of these vases you come across will cost between $3-6 depending on how big you choose. Either or such a steal!
- Clear Elmer’s Glue (or relatively any clear glue)
This will be the most expensive part of your project only due to us picking up the gallon rather than the smaller bottle. This piece is crucial to the project because it’ll make everything stick together (literally lol)
- Fake Thrifted Flowers
These are the main item for this project and you can find these everywhere in a thrift store for as low as $1! They always have a vast selection in the vase section of these said fake flowers. You’ll never be disappointed!
Another alternative to the fake flowers would be shopping at Hobby Lobby! They with out a doubt have so many assortments you can pick and choose from to represent your house the way you want it to!
I’ll go into further detail with the Hobby Lobby finds later on but I want to give you a rough estimate of how much this project will cost you!
Which, you can view just below!
I include the gallon of clear glue only due to the fact that I made multiple of these projects which in fact you’ll see below.
You can view this and say it would be cheaper buying it retail price but I promise you, with all the items you’ve purchased you’ll get your money’s worth with multiple projects.
Although, this cost roughly $26.97, I made at least 3 beautiful projects throughout that cost. You can’t purchase 3 pre-made fake flower vases for that cheap!
View the finally:
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Such perfect, creative, pieces that you can proudly say you made! I wanted to give you guys the finished product before I went into how to make it; just to give you some more inspiration.
I made three of these pre-made vases just from the one gallon that I’ve bought, which you can do too! Between the under $30 you spent you can absolutely make 3-4 vases.
I love this idea because you can gift these or even plant them anywhere in your house. It’s a win-win and you get your money’s worth every time!
Side Note: I found two assortments which you can view just to the right, at a consignment store that cost $21.99 & $17.99 and it barely had anything going for it lol! One flower and a vase cost that much? Not how we do it around here!
I began by:
Well, first cleaning the vase, drying and polishing beforehand!
Viewing the before and after versus the dirty and clean is hilarious to me!
You don’t need that much glue hence why I made so much projects out of the gallon.
I filled it about a quarter way up the vase because you don’t need to fill it completely to have your flowers stick!
I can say I used about 1 1/2 cups worth of glue for each of the vases, it does vary with the vase type though so take my measuring with a grain of salt.
As long as you use minimal amount of glue you’ll be able to flourish with a ton of these projects.
Are you guys noticing all my puns? Lol!
Quick Tip: You can easily add a little bit of blue food coloring into the vases to give it a more colorful look on top of that. I didn’t implement it but I wish I had on at least one of them!
Next step:
I have an abundance of flowers and I used just a little bit of super glue to stick those together before I put it into the Elmer’s Glue. Just to make sure they stayed how I wanted them!
Sorting and picking the assortment of flowers was my favorite part as you can tell!
When it came down to it, I decided on shopping at Hobby Lobby as I previously said because I knew just how many opportunities I’d have with the selections.
They always have insane deals you won’t want to miss out on! I use the link just below to find out which weeks the florals are on sale!
I got all the flowers for less than $2 each which made it so much better! But, I was only able to accomplish that by utilizing the weekly ads they put on their website.
Last Step:
When placing them into the vase I had 2 pairs of chopsticks that I used to hold them in place while they dried. If you don’t have said chopsticks I recommend using a few pencils or generally anything long enough to fit over the vases hole.
You can view just how I placed them and their orientation.
Super simple placement to allow them to dry fully without anything getting disrupted. I used a few elastic bands I had to secure the chopsticks even more which helped a lot!
You can easily just lean your flowers against something as well in the placements you want. I however, didn’t fill up the vases completely with flowers hence why I needed to secure it more.
I will say it probably took a whole week to fully cure, I did just leave them in my garage and to be brutally honest- forgot about them! I truly believe you don’t need to let them sit for as long as I did but it’s better to be safer than sorry.
My advice would be to just set them up all nicely and completely let them be for as long as you can. Since there’s so much product of glue it’s best to let them sit for a long duration.
All in all such an easy little project to do with a family member or even yourself. I had a swell time picking out which vases and each flower to go with my household and I know you guys will too!
Again, here are the results of each of them!
In Conclusion:
This has to be one of the easiest projects I’ve made so far and don’t regret it at all. They came out flawless! With how inexpensive it was to create multiples I’d do it just for the fun of it again! I hope you guys found some great inspiration to create something lovely for your home or as a gift.
Second-hand and thrift stores are your best friends when it comes to shopping, creating and gifting sustainably. Keeping that open mind can broaden so much doors for you!
