Etching Glass

Yesterday we attended the beautiful wedding of a young lady from our church. For our gift, we decided to be a little creative and etch a glass bowl and dish for the couple. I was delighted to try this out; I love making wedding gifts. Since we have supplies left over, I can etch our own dishes as well.

I used the tutorial here (link). Be warned though, that Armour Etching Cream will *not* work on Pyrex. The instructions specify this. I etched on four separate dishes and they all turned out beautifully except for the Pyrex dish.

Reading instructions. . . It's a really simple process!

I created some designs and transferred them onto the sticky-backed vinyl.

Making them bolder with a sharpie. As you can see, Mama also bought some letter stencils which were a great blessing to have.


Applying the stencils with a credit card (or an expired gift card :))


The highly toxic etching cream. It's hard to get a good thick layer, but that's what you need for even etching.


Wait 10 minutes, then rinse. Here's the result!



I've blurred out the family name for privacy.

A very useful skill, no? :)

My Dress Design

Hey, peeps!

This is my dress design for Shabby Apple dresses. Have you heard of Shabby Apple? They sell really cute (and mostly modest) dresses. Their design contest ends today (eek!) so I'm just in time to enter.

My dress is designed for spring, on the sunny days where you reluctantly bring your sweater, because you want it to be summertime. Lightweight, versatile, comfortable enough to spend all day in. Not too dressy, but can be dressed up.
I drew up this dress with these sort of days in mind, as my inspiration. The days that are full of light, and sun.

I think that this dress is best yellow, or any other pastel. I'd use a lightweight cotton knit blend, so that it would be a slip-on dress. I could also see it in light cornflower blue cotton, maybe with a zipper in the back. . .


So glad it's the weekend. . .What have you been up to lately?

~Sophia