Just Call Me Bob Ross!

I'm sad to report that this is my last week of summer vacation... and I got nowhere NEAR the amount of stuff crossed off my wedding to-do list as I had planned.  Stupid moving day week month.  Or maybe it was the ever-tempting pool... and nap that came after an exhausting afternoon of braving the heat on my pool float.

Enough excuses...

I did get one thing done this week (well, two actually, but the second will be in tomorrow's post!):

It's kinda hard to tell, but the polka dots are pink, white and silver. 

Here's the basic how-to (with some helpful hints I learned through trial and error):

Clean the glass with glass cleaner.  I couldn't get the price tag to come off very easily, but the Windex took it right off!

I did the monogrammed letter first.  Let me start by saying I cannot draw paint a straight line to save my life.  So I drew it as best I could, then was on clean-up duty... with a toothpick!  You either have to use the toothpick while the paint is still really wet (basically squeegee it off), or really dry (scratch it off)... Don't try to clean if off during that sticky in-between stage... you'll just stretch the paint and make it globby.  I got the majority of the extra paint off while it was wet, then scratched off the rest after it was dry.

My not-so-straight line getting fixed

After allowing it to dry (I did a half an hour or so), repeat a second coat on the letter.  Clean up your mistakes as needed.

Using stencil "spouncers" (circular sponge paint brushes), I made the polka dots.  The hard part of this was trying to get the air bubbles popped.  I found it easiest to push down, then twist the brush.

I'm not going to lie, I didn't get the all placed correctly on the first try.  To erase an entire dot, I sprayed some Windex on a paper towel and wiped it off (being careful to not touch any other dot).

After allowing it to dry (I did about 15 minutes... I was impatient!), repeat a second coat on the dots.

After allowing it to dry, repeat a third coat on the dots.

With a paint pen, I wrote the "Mrs." on the bottom.  After a few minutes of drying, I did another coat.  To erase paint pen mistakes, I used a Windex soaked toothpick.  The paint pen was harder to erase than the regular paint, but never got "sticky" and "stretchy."  You just have to keep scratching it off.

I still need to let it dry for a day, then bake it.  Put it upside down on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven.  Turn on the oven to 350 and allow it to bake for 30 minutes.  Then turn off the oven and leave it in there until it completely cools.  I found various directions for this online, some saying that baking it makes it dishwasher safe, some saying it is hand wash safe.  I'll probably just hand wash it to be safe.

This is one of the cheapest wedding projects I've done...

Wine Glass (from Dollar Tree): $1.00
Basic Craft Paint (acrylic): 4 @ .33 = $1.32 (and I have other uses planned for this too!)
Small Paint brush: already had it
Circle Sponge Brushes (actually for stencils): $1.99 for a 5-pack

Up next: Jason's glass.  He thought the polka dots on a wine glass were too girly.  Check back tomorrow to see what I came up with for him!