For years I’ve admired those designer water carafes with wooden spheres resting at the neck, be it George Jensen’s delicate mushroom (below) or Sagaform’s range of glassware;  they strike me as elegant and yet very organic at the same time.

So when I came across a bag of wooden spheres in my local craftstore, I decided to have a go myself at pimping up some of our glassware…

These are Ikea’s Tidvatten vases, re-imagined as individual wine carafes; I think they’d look beautiful at an al-fresco summer dinner party; they also come in a larger size.  Or simply use them for storing beautiful things; buttons, beads or maybe loose-leaf tea.

My spheres were in mixed sizes, from 1″ to 3″.  Try online if you can’t find them locally; eBay and Etsy are filled with sellers who offer wooden shapes in a myriad of sizes.  Set aside 2hrs to get lost in a rabbit hole of beautiful forms (it’s also how I found my animal matryoshka blanks).

I used the biggest sphere to pimp-up a £5 vase bought from TK Maxx (TJ Maxx in the US) – it’s now transformed into a gently swan-necked carafe…

So there you have it; an almost-embarrassingly simply DIY to make every-day glassware look unutterably chic!

Have a great week!

 

p.s. thank you for the fantastic Harry Potter crafting ideas last week; we have been busy chopstick wand-making this weekend, as a result! More to follow..

p.p.s. George Jensen carafe via here