Glass Garden Markers

As promised, here is another idea for making your own garden markers. There will be a couple more fun ideas for more of these soon, as well. This garden marker is made from a glass tile (the same kind I use to make magnets). I used some of my favorite glass paint that you cure in the oven, and just painted on my herb name. If you get your glass paint in pen form, this would certainly look a little bit neater than mine, but I used what I already had on hand.

These are great for me, as I have my entire garden indoors on my windowsill. However, if you have a large outdoor garden I would suggest finding river rocks that are a bit larger and painting them with your veggie names and sticking them at the end of your rows. You could use regular paint if you do this, and just cover the entire rock with polyurethane (though many paints will be just fine if you skip that step).

Don't want to put all this effort into your garden markers? Later this afternoon I will have a super easy garden marker that uses only colorful paper, pens and contact paper coating!

Glass Magnets- Picasso Edition

I have made some glass bubble magnets before. I like them because they are a pretty easy project, you can do them for anyone's taste and the materials are easy to find and generally on the cheap side.

Today I was going through some books I had originally planned on getting rid of and found one of my favorite paintings, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, and thought "This would make me some awesome new magnets".

They turned out even better than I had originally thought, and made a nice sized set of 5 (the 5th face in the original painting was just a tad too close to two of the others making her a casualty of the set) including a fruit still life at the bottom of the painting. You could do this with any artwork or illustration you like, and modify the size, etc. with a copy machine.