Mason Jar Monday

Hello again Internet! I hope you've all had a fabulous day! Today is what I like to call Mason Jar Monday!! Being as crafty as I am, I love DIY crafts. Mason jars are the cutest and have the perfect shabby-chic look for my taste, and we have a bunch laying around the house!!! My favorite mason jar endeavor so far has been the melted crayon look. I tried two different methods, the first was melting a pile of crayons in the bottom of a jar:

First, I broke up colors that I like (cool colors, and although they are COOL, by that I mean greens, blues, and purples) and peeled the paper off of them. I dumped them in the bottom of a mason jar and held the hair dryer on hot above the opening of the jar for a while until they were melted. I tried to swirl the colors around but they mostly did what they wanted.

I also really like the way the bottom of the jar turned out:

I wanted to be able to display both the inside and bottom of jar, so i decided to display the jar upside-down. The jar looked to empty for my taste so I found a random piece of something laying around (it looked like a really pretty tree branch) and hot glued it to the inside of the lid to the jar to create this beautiful final product:

This jar is more of an art piece and less of a jar now. The second method was also a melted crayon technique, but with a dripping effect. I hot glued crayons broken in half to the rim of the jar and melted them that way. Getting them hot enough to drip definitely took a while, but it was worth it. Once they started dripping, I had to tilt the jar to get them to run the right way. And since I glued them in with the paper still intact, the crayons melted right out of the paper and the paper is still attached to the jar (except for one poor little purple).

So sorry for the late post, was having some technical difficulties. Hope everyone's week started good and if not that it gets better!