Fearless Friday, Elephants and Painted Jars

the Painted Apron

7 years ago

Do not be fearless if you are in the path of Hurricane Irma, please stay safe! We are watching closely, feeling very lucky to not be in the path this time. Thank you all for your concern and kind comments. Prayers to all…

Football season kicked off last weekend 🏈 🐘 ❤️

We get very excited about football season!

The only football thing I had at the beach house was an Alabama crock pot

Do you ever use a crockpot just to keep food warm on a buffet?

Even if you don’t use it for cooking it works like a charm to keep just about anything you want to serve warm, like sandwiches, chicken wings, nuggets, sausage balls

If you want to get creative you can paint or decorate jars in your teams colors or with football related designs

I recently painted some jars with chalky white milk paint, to organize my markers with color coordinated lids

Jars are great for decluttering your desk area or corralling children’s art supplies

Pinterest has tons of inspirations for painted jars, an easy craft anyone can do

You can use old jars, and even if you can’t get the pesky labels completely off, milk paint or chalk paint does a great job covering them up

Houndstooth is often associated with Alabama football, a representation of legendary coach Bear Bryant’s famous hat

I use a flat square brush for my simplified version, repeating square strokes on the diagonal around the jar

Nothing symbolizes Alabama better than the elephant

They are easy to paint, below is the basic outline of strokes

The secret to painting anything is to break in down into simple shapes

I mix the grays with black and white, leaving a little black and white on my brush unmixed, so the strokes will have variation and dimension

My jars all have raised lettering and designs embossed in the glass so things look a little distorted on the bumpy jar surface in some areas, like the elephants face

I used my jars for flatware and napkins, but painted jars are great for blooms

On a desk or vanity

For gifts or decorative jars, like these simple Holiday Tree Jars

I also painted a platter, much easier than the bumpy glass~

It goes with this “Roll with the Tide” pillow I found at Pottery Barn last year

Rolling with the Tide is perfect for the coast

We were ready for some football!

This was the menu for last Saturday night’s game:

Click on the recipe titles below for the links to the recipes

Hissy Fit Dip Island Time Chicken Wings Bacon Bundles Spinach & Artichoke Stuffed Bread 2 Bite Tide Pride Cherry Pies

It is easy to create jars for your own team, use team colors in stripes, dots, or solid colors, ribbons, letters

See tons of painted jar ideas here

Have fun and Be Fearless!

Notes: Be sure to use paint that is made for painting glass if you are going to paint something that you will be used for food or beverages

The Milk Paint I used is from Walmart and I painted over parts of the paper label I couldn’t remove from the houndstooth jar, it does an amazing job of covering in 1 coat

The elephant face on the jar looks a little funny because that jar has a lot of raised designs, so for best results paint on a smooth surface

Remember if you are painting dishware, use curable paint for glass and do not paint areas where food will be. Glass paint is not food safe, and will scratch, however many brands are dishwasher safe