So more crafts with jars it would seem - well I do have a large amount of jars to use, so why not?!

For this one I just bought some wicks and drilled a hole in the jar lid.  Added oil to the jar, any oil will do - I used regular cooking oil.  For a nice smell when the lamp was being burned I added some fruit (oranges and apples), but I've heard herbs work equally as well.  Make sure the lid is on tightly and wait until the oil soaks it way to the top of the wick and you are ready to go!

As mentioned in the previous post, I have an unreal amount of jars and am trying to find things to do with them.
I also have an unreal amount of stationary, which was taking up two drawers in my desk.  I spot a solution.

I bought red and blue spray paint.  Washed the jars, sprayed them and organised my stationary in them.....problem solved!  And, of course, each jar has a particular item, one for pens, one for pencils, one for white board markers etc. 

Total number of jars used for stationary: 11

I found a dustbin full of empty clean jars in my garden.  We don't have a blue box that the council provide to take them away - must request one soon - and it's too much hassle to drag them over the recycling bank as we don't have a car.  So, I decided to see what we could do with some of the before we get our blue box.

On sorting out the jars I found a number of jars that were the same shape and size with the same lids.  There were very nice small jars with little gold lids and I thought "tea light holders".  But I'm a lazy person, and with 20 of these jars, I know what I wouldn't be willing to go around lighting 20 tea lights.  So the next best thing sprung to mind, "solar lamps".  I discovered mini solar panel or solar cells are quite hard to come by and quite expensive.  So I trotted off to Homebase and found these.  A small cost, but all the other materials were free or pre-existing so I was willing.

I took the light mechanism off, replace the jar lids with it and painted the jars and lids my colours.  Luckily the lids were of the same circumference, not something I checked before hand....phew, so just popped on top of the jars.

I really like the way you can see the paint strokes, and from a distance it looks like a wet surface.

I'm sure this is a common problem: You take all your newly clean and lovely smelling clothes out of the washing machine to find that the "washing machine has eaten some socks".  So your odd sock(s) go in the sock drawer.  More odd socks are found and they too go in the drawer.  So after a few months, there appears only to be a few pairs of socks and a dozen odd socks.

I am fed up with an odd sock drawer, rather than a sock drawer.  So I made a Lost Sock Post.  I cut a piece of wood to size and painted on my sign, if like me and at the age of 24 you can't stay in the lines you've drawn use a black marker to go around the edge of your letters to hide that fact that you've made the letters messy with paint...opps.  I then painted some pegs and nailed them on the wood.  To hang it on the wall I drilled in two holes, threaded some string through and tied to so branch that I found in the garden to secure it - easy as that.  Here lost socks can be pinned up by the washing machine, until their counter part turns up.  If the Lost Sock post becomes full and no counter parts can be found then it would have been confirmed.....the washing machine does eat all our socks!