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How to Decorate a Room With Big Martini Glasses

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Big martini glasses can be used for a lot of things besides martinis. You can use them for a lot of other decorative purposes as well. You can use very large regular martini drinking glasses for this or go to the store and buy super-sized ones that can be used for decoration.

When it comes to room decor, oversized martini glasses make beautiful centerpieces. For the holiday seasons you can fill them with whatever pertains. Hershey’s kisses or heart shaped chocolates look great in a Martin glass for Valentine’s Day. For Christmas you can fill it with shiny Christmas balls. In the Spring and Autumn you can fill it with floating flowers or pot-pours. Fill a martini glass with water and float a big peony or rose in it in June.

Big wine glasses also make wonderful candle holders. Simply fill with water, even colored water and then float the candle on the surface to create a romantic mood.

Martini glasses also make lovely flower vases for small bundles of flowers such as a bundle of daisies or a bunch of orchids. The key to this looking great is to bundle the flowers together first so they stand up straight in a bed of sand or river rocks deposited in the bottom of the glass.

Giant martini glasses also make very interesting serving dishes. Consider serving chocolates, Cocoa cheerios, dips, mixed nuts, candy, olives, pretzels or pickles in them. They also make nice holders for fresh fruit.

Martini glasses are also useful for making fruit and yogurt sundaes, ice cream sundaes and they are perfect for holding puddings and mouses. They can also be an elegant container for cold soup or a mid-course sorbet.

Yet another wonderful use for a Martini glass is as a holder of shrimp and shrimp cocktail sauce. Simply hook the shrimp all around the rim of the glass which is filled with tangy seafood sauce.

These glasses also look great in bathroom. You can fill them with colorful bath pellets, soap, bath salts or decorative soaps. Mix two colors of bath salts to create a lovely effect.

Giant martini glasses can also be used as holders for favors or gift baskets. Large acrylic martini glasses work best for this. Simply pile little gifts in the glass and then wrap it all with saran wrap. Be sure to tie it all together securely with a pretty ribbon.

How to Decorate a Wine or Martini Glass

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One way to completely personalize a party is to paint the martini glasses. The possibilities for creating themed glasses are practically endless. You can paint them with the theme of the night, such as a pumpkin for Halloween, with the names of a bride and groom or you can paint them to match your china.

The first thing you need to do is completely clean the glasses. Wipe them with a paper towel that is soaked in alcohol and let the glass air dry. It is best to use brand new glasses as older ones sometimes have residues on them that prevent paint from sticking to thesurface. Make sure the glass is big enough to paint on in the first place!

There are many different paints you can buy to use for this project including both opaque and transparent paints. You can also get paint that gives glass a frosted or spackled effect. You can get very creative as glass paints come in every color imaginable. If you are not good with a brush you can also buy markers that contain glass paint that can do a good job. The markers are especially good if you want to create detailed designs with a lot of intricate touches.

If you are talented, just go ahead and paint an image on the glass free-hand. You can also use a pattern or a stencil on glass. Simply tape the design you want to use on the inside of the glass and then just paint the outside of the glass as the pattern shows.

You usually have to bake the paint on the glass. You put your finished glasses in the oven and heat to the temperature advised by the paint company. Once the glasses are done having the image sealed into the glass by the oven heat you take them out of the oven and let them air dry. Note that you do not have to do this but using bake-on paint allows the glass to be used in the dishwasher and survive daily wear and tear for a longer time. However for best results you should always hand wash the glasses carefully which will help preserve the design.

There are several different paints you can buy that allow you to be very creative. Opaque paint doesn’t allow light to pass through it, but transparent paints do. You can also get paint that makes the glass look frosted or crackled. Glass paints come in every color of the rainbow–and considering that a little goes a long way, you’ll have plenty of paint to experiment with on other projects. You can also buy glass paint markers that allow you to letter or make intricate designs.

Most paints are water-based and are easily cleaned off of your brushes, skin and other places with a little soap and water.