Mason Jars!

Lately I have become slightly obsessed with crafts dealing with mason jars. In fact for Christmas last year I made my boyfriend's mom a mason jar chandelier for outside parties that she can hang in her gazebo. I of course didn't take any pictures but it looked so good and she loved it. So for today's blog I made soap dispensers out of mason jars!!

There it is, my new project. I meant to sell these at the swap meet in Portland that I was at last week ad tons of people looked and loved them but just no one wanted to b/c their husbands kept dragging them away since it wasn't car parts lol so thankfully I have all of the women on Kyle's side of the family to give them to.

Here's what ya need:

1. Mason jars- any size I used quart 
2. soap pumps
3. soap
4. pebeo glass paint 
5. pebeo thinner
6. foam brush
7. silicone
8. clear nail polish
9. ribbon
10. card stock
11. gold paint
12. black fine tip marker
13. wire

To get the purple look I went to Michael's and bought Pebeo glass paint. I bought the purple and you'll also need the paint thinner. This was over by  the stained glass section and there are TONS of colors just make sure its the GLASS not PORCELAIN one! Next you'll put a couple of drops of color in a cup and mix it with a few teaspoons of thinner. flip the jars upside down and with the foam brush make long smooth strokes all around the jar. try to avoid air bubbles and lines. Let dry for 24 hours then place in a coll oven on a pan(keep upside down) turn the oven on I don't remember the temp but it says on the color bottle and bake for 40 minutes. Turn the oven off but keep the jars in until the oven is cold. It will smell a little while it bakes so open a window or vent. VOILA!!!! colored jars. 

Alright next I went to the dollar store and bought four different kinds of hand soap and dumped them in the jars. When its empty you'll take the top of the soap bottles and cut it off so you have the threads. Then recycle the rest of it.

Take your lids and silicon the two pieces together put a little on both sides and smooth it out. Then drill a hole in the center of the lid and use tin snips to make it big enough for the threads to go through.

Put a little bit of clear nail polish on the cut metal to avoid rusting. 

 Next stick the threaded part of the bottle through the hole and silicon it in place.

Take the pump from the bottle and thread it into place.

Then screw the lid on to the jar and now you have your very own soap dispenser!!!

Time for the finishing touches! 

I took some white card stock and cut out this design and then took some gold acrylic paint I had laying around and painted a filigree on it and traced it with a black fine point sharpie.

On the back I wrote hand soap so people knew what kind was in. I then wrote the "flavor" of soap on the side with the filigree.

With the rest of the card stock I cut out a square and painted it all gold. I poked holes the top of both and ran gold wire though it.

I bought some cream colored ribbon at the dollar store and made a bow following the instructions on this website.

http://www.save-on-crafts.com/tailoredbow.html

I then wrapped some of the ribbon around the jar hot gluing the eds together but not on the jars so they can be taken off. I took the wire that I put on the tags and wrapped it around the ribbon on the jar. 

Then I hot glued the bow on the ribbon where the two ends were glued together. 

And there ya have it, soap dispensers made from mason jars.