Homemade Gift for Guys

J's family has a tradition each Christmas where we exchange a homemade gift. Each person makes something, wraps it without a tag and we draw numbers to pick presents. It's sort of like White Elephant but we don't do the trading business for simplicity sake. We've had some awesome gifts in the past and definitely a few duds. This year was definitely the best year so far, everyone had awesome ideas and we all walked away happy. I decided to make something for the home but something that was fun and goofy too because that's how his family is.

My gift when to J's cousin C and the Mustache Glasses now have a good home.

Supplies Needed:

- 8 pint glasses

- Acrylic paint for glass

- Small paint brushes

- Images and printer

- Cookie sheet and oven

[1] I wanted to do mustaches because they're funny but you can do whatever you want. Patterns, small flowers, polka dots, names or initials. I decided to print mine out because I'm horrible at drawing and I wanted to get them all perfect.

[2] I taped the image to the INSIDE of the glass in the position I wanted. This way I was able to paint right on top of the stache without having to do a lot of cutting to make stencils.

[3] I used American Gloss Enamels paint in black

[4] Each glass required 2 coats of paint. It was a little difficult to make the edges perfectly smooth while the image was taped inside so I did one light coat to get the general shape and then removed the paper. It looked something like the below picture and definitely needed a second coat to be completely filled in.

[5] Not too long later and I had this awesome set. I love that they're all different. It makes it into a really cool set. I let them dry according to the directions on the pain that I used.

[6] The trick to making them not scratch off when you use and wash them is to treat them in the oven. These directions were also on the paint bottle but you place the glasses in a cool oven and heat it to 350*F. Once the oven is heated you leave them in for 3o minutes and then turn the oven off. You let them cool in the oven and then remove them.

Now they're ready for some water, milk, or adult beverage :-) Hope you enjoy your glasses C!