I almost forgot

I have no painting photos today (I know you're sad). However, my living room is 3/4 yellow. I feel much less accomplished today even though I did more than yesterday. The living room is twice as big as the family room and had lots of stuff to move away from walls. Tomorrow it will be finished. 

Instead of pretty yellow walls, I can show you what Elmer brought me a couple of weeks ago. 

Nice, huh? He unloaded boxes of his unneeded canning jars into my garage the last time he and my grandma came over (he's my grandma's boyfriend of 33 years. LOVE.) and I went out there to get some for making tomato sauce. I opened a very old box and gasped in delight. There were 8 gorgeous blue jars in there. I've been all wanty over these for so long, and they just showed up in my garage! How perfect is that?

So here's the question - how would you use them? I'm thinking primarily as vases, but any clever ideas would be most welcome. 

Happy Standard Time! I'm headed to bed. 

Comments

[Cordelia]

Me, I would just sit and look at them; put them in the window and look at them; line them up and cluster them to see the bendy blue light; look at my husband and son through them; look in the mirror through them. But vases sounds good, too!

[Sarah Jane]

what a sweet!

[Heather]

Squeee! I am a bit envious that they just appeared. I love how the lights shines through them when placed on a window sill. I saw someone use the blue jars for lights on her patio hung with wire for the trees.

[amey]

I agree with Heather. I've seen them used as lanterns. I also saw on the intertubes that people have modified them to hold a solar bulb or a traditional one for inside or outside pendant style lights.

[sarah]

i have some with votives in them on my kitchen table.
what a lucky little gift!

[amelia studio]

Love! Those would definitely be full of seashells around here.

[speattle]

I'd put knitting needles into them.

[molly]

my friend marjorie (you know her too!) uses old blue jars as frames for cute black and white pictures. i just love them. pop the picture in and presto!