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How To Glitter Wine Goblets

January 23, 2013 By Colleen Jorgenson 6 Comments

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I’ve seen these glittered wine goblets all over the Pinterest and the internet, usually around the holidays. To be honest, I was just going to paint these glasses, not glitter them.

But there it is. And you know what? Every time I look at it, I smile. I don’t know why. I’m not what you’d call a “glitter girl”. However, this was fun. Real fun.

Someone better hide the glitter ‘round here.

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I got these goblets at the thrift store who knows when for a buck. Preparing to paint them, I washed them and then wiped them down with rubbing alcohol to remove any oils from my fingers.

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After a few layers of dust were removed I looked at these chiseled stems and knew painting alone wouldn’t do them justice. I could either paint the goblet ‘bowl’ or do something else to the stem.

Like glitter!

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I painted a red basecoat, even after I decided to add glitter, just in case I missed a spot. It looked just fine here, fully coated. But wait . . .

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Hold it up to the light and you can see all the brush strokes, which is common when painting glass.

At this point I was still intending on painting the stems red and then adding a touch of glitter paint.

A touch, I tell ya.

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Then I found this, buried in my basket of Valentine’s goodies. You know when you buy something for a season or a holiday, fully intending to use it but the day comes and goes and, kerplunk, it goes into a box?

And then, Surprise! the next year. Open-mouthed smile

It’s the simple things, my friends. The simple things. Like a little tube of ultra fine red glitter.

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Being that I’m not a ‘glitter girl’ (or at least I wasn’t before now) I didn’t really know how to approach this. Would the glitter even adhere with just paint? Should I use Mod Podge instead? But if I ‘podge it, would the paint lift?

I took a deep breath, willing to ruin my $1 thrift store beauties and painted a small section and then dumped sprinkled some glitter on it. I tapped the excess off onto my creased waxed paper. (I have some sense.) Then I continued down the stem, painting, sprinkling, painting, sprinkling.

Then I placed the goblet on my work table, sat back, looked at it and exhaled.

It’s the small things that getcha too.

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Ok, if I’m gonna do this, I’m gonna try not to mess it up too terribly much. So I painted and glittered the section opposite the one that was still wet.

I should tell you here, use an old paintbrush for this project. It’s just that wet paint and itsy-bitsy glitter flakes . . . well, it’s hard to get that brush clean. Use one of your older ones, or a cheapie.

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Since I was working in opposing sections, and painting and dumping sprinkling as quickly as possible, I had a lot of paint building up on my brush. So I just grabbed the 2nd goblet and started basecoating that one in red.

I love it when I do something that makes sense.

Note the extremely dry index finger. Note the little red dots of ultra fine glitter on the extremely dry finger.

Just . . . be prepared. Glitter. Everywhere.

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I showed you the tube of glitter right? It really wasn’t too expensive. I think around $3 or so for five tubes. But I only had one tube of red, which is why I put creased waxed paper under the glass.

But somehow I had to get all of the excess glitter into that teensie tube.

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So I made my own little paper funnel. Oh, there’s probably one in the kitchen but ultra fine glitter sticks to plastic even more than excessively dry fingers. Or so I thought.

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I managed to get most of it back in the tube and look! One goblet only needed about one-third of the glitter!

So I went around the edge of the base and painted and glittered it.

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Which posed yet another issue – how to dry the rim without all of the glitter sticking to whatever. A spray paint cap worked fine.

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They’re really not as sparkly as they are in person. sigh. Short of shining a spotlight on them, I couldn’t get the camera to capture it. Take my word for it, they sparkle.

And they make me smile.

I had to giggle though, looking at this glittery, sparkly wine goblet. I thought, “Oh, there’s no way Marlon would’ve used this.” Then I stopped. That’s not true. He would’ve loved them. As big as he was – 6’4”, 340 lbs. – he loved all things “pretty”, soaps, lotions, you name it. Maybe it was because of his size. I dunno. It used to surprise people though.

Kind of the way this glittered goblet surprised me. I like surprises that make me smile.

Colleen

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Comments

  1. linda lowery says

    June 8, 2014 at 10:41 am

    on the glitter glasses can you wash them without the glitter coming off?

    Reply
    • Colleen says

      June 8, 2014 at 11:26 am

      Yes, but they need to be sealed first. I used Mod Podge and then washed by hand and they were fine.

      Reply

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