Simple Bud Vase

On a recent road trip, my daughter, Elizabeth, and I stopped for road food. Road food, by definition, can have no nutritional value whatsoever, and on this stop we filled the car with gas and grabbed a bit of chocolate and something to drink. While we chose different chocolates, we both went for a lemonade that we'd never tried before, and, after tasting it, probably never will again! It wasn't lemony enough for either of us and left a strange after-taste in our mouths. HOWEVER, the drink came in a uniquely simple glass bottle, and I couldn't bring myself to throw them away once we got home from the trip and I cleaned out the car (which, in all honesty, was probably a week after we got home).

It took a couple days of seeing the bottles sitting on the kitchen counter before I finally realized that they should become simple bud vases! Out came the magnificent Cricket machine and some scrap vinyl. Once the stencils were cut and placed on the bottles, I brushed Armor's Etching Cream over the exposed areas, waited 10 minutes, took the bottles to the sink, rinsed them, peeled off the vinyl and had two sweet little vases!

The next step is up to mother nature...in my neck of the woods we're one day away from setting the record for the longest number of spring days taken to get to a high of 60 degrees. In other words, it's been cold and wet! The only things blooming are a very few, very brave daffodils who've had to take so much abuse from the weather that I don't have the heart to cut them! But gardeners are ever-optimistic and the buds on the lilac bushes seem plumper every day...my vases and I will wait, if somewhat impatiently!