Hi everyone! I am back to share with you another "DIY Dollar Tree Project Idea". I know I have been doing a lot of Dollar Tree DIY and I never mentioned why. Well my husband and I are having our FIRST and ONLY house built and it will be our FOREVER HOME for us and our girls. So all of these DIY things I have been creating is for our new home. The one project that I will be sharing with you today is a "Candle Decor" project that I plan to put on the edges of our garden tub in the bathroom. But this "DIY Dollar Tree Candle Decor" can be use in other parts of the home and still look beautiful.
This is the vase that I found at Dollar Tree that I used for this project.
I also got this candle stick at Dollar Tree to make the Candle Decor taller.
To glue the candle stick and the vase together I used the E6000 glue. This glue (like I have said before) works great on glass projects.
This is how it look once I glued the vase and candle sticks together.
I wanted to add some color to this "Candle Decor" and also give the candle some height in the vase so I use these blue glass gems that I also got at Dollar Tree.
I put a toilet paper roll in the middle of the vase when I was putting the glass gems in so that I wouldn't need so many glass gems to get the height I wanted for the candle. (Sorry the picture was so dark, it was hard for me to get a good picture without a flash glare).
I then cut four slits in the toilet paper roll down to where the glass gems end so that I could fold it and tape it down.
I then took the toilet paper roll out and taped down the slits.
I then returned it back to the vase with the glass gems around it.
These are the candles that I used for this project and I also found them at Dollar Tree. I was going to use some taller candles I saw at Wal-Mart but I didn't like the look of how tall they were so I used these which was even better because these were just a dollar each and the ones at Wal-Mart were $3 each.
This is how they look. I can't wait to see how these will look in my bathroom on the garden tub. When I move into my house I will be having blog post on how I decorated and organize my house so stay tuned for those future post.
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Today I am going to share with you how I filled some of these jars I made for my "Glam Organization Decor".
These are the three Apothecary Jars that I made that I used for this project.
I found these pretty Glam looking ribbons at Dollar Tree and knew that they would look so pretty on the Jars.
I wanted each Jar to have different number of rows of sparkling ribbon so that they could be a little different from each other. So I cut the ribbon to make two rows and one row. For one of them I was going keep the the ribbon as it was with three rows but for the other two I would have two or one row of sparkle ribbon.
I wanted to add a special touch to each middle of the ribbon on the Jars. I could not find any jewels or gems I liked at Dollar Tree, Hobby Lobby, or Michael's. Then I was at Wal-mart and saw these earrings and thought these would look beautiful on the jars.
I used these small Jewelry pliers to take off the hook on the earrings.
I used the smaller pliers to bend the back of the bigger earring to make a loop to loop onto the ribbon.
To glue all these things to the Jars I used E6000 glue which is great for glass projects. This glue also dries clear.
For the tall jar I glued the ribbon as it was and a diamond in the middle. For the second jar I liked the look of one row of ribbon and the tangling diamonds on it. For the small jar I used two rows of sparkling ribbon and one diamond on it. I also put some sparkling ribbon on the lids as well.
After I finished decorating the jars I then filled them up with things I found at Dollar Tree, which were cotton balls, bath salts, and Q-tips.
I also made a green set of Apothecary Jars for my mom.
I filled her Jars with the same contents as well.
My mom and I put these jars in our bathrooms and not only do they function to ORGANIZE some of our bathroom contents but it also becomes bathroom DECOR because they look so pretty.
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Also stay tune for future post were I will be sharing more ideas on how I used these Apothecary Jars in other parts of my house.
I LOVE Apothecary Jars! I have always wanted them because you can do so much with them and put different things inside them to go with so many different themes. What I DIDN'T like about them was the price! Apothecary Jars can cost anywhere from $18 to all the way up to $60! Yikes!!! Even though I LOVE them I couldn't see myself spending that much on one Apothecary Jar. Recently I had been on Pinterest and saw some posts on how to make Apothecary Jars with some old vases and candle sticks and I got inspired to create my own. Usually I would post on here the websites that I got my inspiration from but the truth is there are so MANY post on Pinterest on how to make Apothecary Jars that if I would link up all the post it would take up this whole post LOL. So lets just say that I got my inspiration from MULTIPLE post on Pinterest. LOL Thank you to all on Pinterest who inspired me and gave me some ideas. I took from each post what I liked about them and came up with some ideas of my own and create my own Apothecary Jars. I was so happy with how my Apothecary Jars came out! In fact, I like the ones I made better than the ones in the store and mine only cost $3 or less to make them. So let me get right into the post so I can show you guys how I created my own Apothecary Jars.
Sorry for the blurry picture. The main material that you will need to make these Apothecary Jars is E6000 glue. This glue works great for glass projects. You should let the glue dry for at least 24 hours without touching or moving the pieces that you are gluing together.
These are some of the things I used to make the different types of Apothecary Jars. I used different size glass vases, different size glass bowls and glass candle sticks. I got them all from Dollar Tree. I also used small and large glass lids from old candle jars that I clean out after the candles were burned down.
To make my first Apothecary Jar I used this slim glass vase, glass candlestick, and I used the lid from this round glass jar that I also got from Dollar Tree. The round glass jar won't go to waste because I have another DIY project in mind for the round glass jar without the lid. Nothing will go to waste because I will always have something in mind for it.
First thing I did was, I attached the glass candlestick to each vase. I turn the vases upside down and glued the candlestick to the bottom of the vase in the center using the E6000 glue. Do not touch or move the candle stick for 24 hours.
I then used a butter knife to remove the plastic rim from the jar lid because I didn't want the plastic to show through the Apothecary Jar and I love the look better when it is all glass.
This is how the first one came out.
I use the same things to make this Apothecary Jar except for this one I used a smaller vase.
For my next Apothecary Jar, I had to make a different lid for it than the one I used in the previous Apothecary Jar because this Vase's rim opened up wider than it's base. This is one of the ideas on pinterest that I saw but instead of gluing a knob on the small bowl, I decide to use what I had at home instead of buying something. What I had at home were old glass candle jars and the lids would be perfect to use instead of a glass knob to glue onto the small bowl.
I popped off the plastic rim off the small glass candle jar lid just like I did with the glass jar lid from the previous Apothecary Jar I made.
Then I glued the small glass lid onto the small glass bowl with E6000. Wait 24 hours to dry.
This is how it turn out.
Now I will admit if you do not put the lid on right with this Apothecary Jar it will tip over like this.
One way to prevent this is by putting four hot glue dots on the bottom of the bowl. I didn't like the way it looked so I removed the glue dots and just kept it without it. Once you put your contents in the Jars your lid won't move much and unless you bump it, it won't move so I didn't have a problem with it staying in place but if you want some security then you can do the Hot Glue dots on the bottom of the bowl.
For the next Apothecary Jar I needed to make a different lid as well because the vase I used for this Apothecary Jar was a wider vase. To make the lid I used a medium size glass bowl and a small glass candle jar lid.
I glued the small glass candle jar lid to the glass bowl with E6000.
This is how this one turn out.
My last Apothecary Jar was easy to make because I did not have to make a lid for it. The lid from a old large glass candle jar fit perfectly in this shaped vase.
This is how my last Apothecary Jar turn out.
This is how three of them looked put together.
Again I am sooo HAPPY that I found ideas on Pinterest on how to make my own CHEAPER and BETTER LOOKING Apothecary Jars. All these Apothecary Jars cost me $3 or less each to make and that is WAY CHEAPER than $18-$60.
Stay tune for future post on how I use my new Apothecary Jars and what I put inside them.
Coming soon is a post title Valentine's Day Dollar Tree Apothecary Jars.
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Do you ever get frustrated with all the bottles that you have in your shower that are hard to squeeze the contents out of them especially when they are wet? I was, so I decide to come up with a way to ORGANIZE MY BATHROOM CLUTTER in my shower and make it easier for me to get the content I wanted by REUSING some empty hand soap bottles.
This is how my shower rack looked before, which was not bad but I wanted to come up with a way to ORGANIZE the bottles better and make it easier for me to get whatever content I needed out of the bottles easily.
First thing I did was I collected a few empty hand soap bottles that I had. I love using the hand soap bottles because they have the easy push down dispensers on them. Then I removed the label and used Goo Gone to remove all the stickiness that was left on the bottles from the label.
I used my label maker and the white plastic tape to label all the bottles with the contents that I was putting inside them.
I made sure to collect different color bottles because I wanted each content to have a different color bottle. I filled up each bottle and then put the names of each content on the front of the bottle by using my label maker.
I knew that I was going to put the bottles side by side on the shower rack so I put the initials of each content on the side of the bottles as well so I could know what is in each bottle.
Then I put all the bottles side by side in the shower rack and they fit perfectly. I even have space for one more bottle on the left side if I need to add something.
Now my SHOWER RACK is ORGANIZE and I can EASILY get out whatever content I need out of the new bottles even if they are wet.
I hope this helped or gave you guys some ideas on how to ORGANIZE your BATHROOM or SHOWER RACK!
