May 19, 2017 – Our Creative Haven

Happy Friday everyone!

I don’t know about you but sometimes I’ll see something on Pinterest, have a go and It will turn out disastrously! Well I once saw some pictures of pots that had been decorated using nail varnish in water. And due to my previous Pinterest experimenting I naturally thought there is no way something so simple could create something that looks that good! But I was having a mooch in some charity shops recently (one of my favourite end of the month activities when you have no money), and found 2 plain white plant pots for 50p each. I ended up with a spare 30mins and I finally got round to giving it a go! I must say I‘m very impressed with the results! Even if it was a bit messy!

All you will need are some old pots/mugs or anything you want to decorate, some old nail varnish, nail varnish remover, thin sticky backed cork, and a bowl you don’t mind getting dirty/ruined!!

Once you’ve filled the bowl with water, start drizzling in your chosen nail varnishes. Try to cover the outer aspects of the water too as these are the areas that will end up in the visible surface of your pot.

Once you’re happy with your varnish, dip the pot in the water as far as you’d like. Once removed, turn the pots upside down to allow the excess water to dry off.

Now this is the messy part! Only nail varnish remover will remove the varnish but it will only remove some of it in that quantity! I was trying to remove all the varnish from the bowl hence my hands stayed like this for while!!

My advice would be to use a bowl that you don’t mind either keeping as scrap or to recycle it.

I love looking at all the pretty shapes and colours the varnish made. I also learnt the hard way that even when the pots are dry, due to the bases also being covered in varnish, they can still be slightly tacky even when dry! So I found some sticky backed cork that I had lying around and used it to stick to the bottom of the pots so that they don’t stick to any surfaces you put them on!!