Miniature Enamelware Pot

 Oh my love of enamelware 💓💓💓!!!

I have now combined my two loves... Miniatures and Enamelware. It was bound to happen eventually right??!!  Part of my love of old enamelware is it's perfect imperfection.  My tiny pot here shows just that.  I could have made a more perfect paint job with more realistic looking rust.  But that's just not what I see.  I simply made some black damage spots with paint and didn't think it needed anything more.  Believe me... I've got plenty of pieces to compare it to around here!  Most of my pieces just have black blemishes and not so much rust.  This little pot is only damaged from wear and tear or life and cooking... Not being left out in the rain for forty years.  I hope you make one today!!  Please share if you do!

I used a little lotion bottle that came with an at-home eye brow wax kit from Sally Hansen.  I save this little bottle from the trash weeks ago and almost tossed it a couple of times.  To make this I simply made a slit with a knife and used my kitchen shears to cut the bottom off the bottle.  I used a good fingernail file to even up my slanted cutting job.

I wound up using a regular metal paper clip and not this green one for the handles.  I just cut two pieces and bent them.  I then adhered them with a tiny bit of hot glue and secured with tacky glue.  I've got glue that may hold better but not the patience to wait for it to dry.  :)

I painted the inside white and outside a pale blue using these two chalk paints from WalMart.  These are two ounce bottles I found in the craft section for $1.74 each.  I usually make my own chalk paint out of craft paint, plaster of paris and water using whatever color I want of craft paint since I need to very little.  But these are real cheap and pretty handy to have!

I gave her a coating of Mod Podge gloss coat after the paint dried.  Enamelware has always got a glossy shine!

I dabbed on some splotches of black craft paint, painted the handles and around the rim of the pot.  

Isn't she just the most magical thing?!?!?!

Thanks for visiting!  Please let me know if you make one!  I'd love to see it!

Also, Peppysis is on Instagram as Peppysis.  

friday finds

Ahhh, my beloved enamelware addiction.  There should seriously be a support group for it.  This collection of lovely vintage enamel pieces began with Number 1... the milk can.  I love it.  I hope one day to find a French water pitcher like Number 2 at a yard sale in Crossplains or White House.  And it being French... one might wonder how it got there.  Number 3 grabbed me with it's rust-ic style and I really like the handle.  The old soap holder of Number 4 entices me and I can envision it attached to the wall of my front porch right above the water faucet.  But then I would be left wanting one for the back porch too... and that would be Ok.  

You can find uses for old enamelware HERE.

And P.S. the Crossplains yard sale is this weekend!!!  You know where I'll be!

Vintage Enamelware Uses

Ahhhh my beloved enamelware.  It's true... enamel pieces and I have had a long going love affair for years upon years.  To this day I cannot get enough of the stuff.  I usually find pieces at yard sales and antique shops and I have had to say no from time to time if an item is priced too high though believe me when I say I didn't want to.  I have bowls hanging on walls, ones I use in the kitchen all the time and some that I plant in.  Even the coffee pots get some use housing feathers and flowers in different areas of our home.  I have bigger pieces that I use when canning green beans and pickles for rinsing and soaking purposes.  The list of uses for the old enamelware just go on and on.  I decided to pick five fun uses of enamelware pieces that I have used lately to share with you!  I hope you fall in love and find lovely pieces of enamelware for yourself... or for me! 

 

 

A beer bucket from an old chamber pot.  Keeps 'em cold!

Hens & Chickens planted in and old pee pot. 

Quite the conversation piece.



Lemon Balm given to me by a friend will have plenty of room to fill this large bowl with rust holes in the bottom.

I have taken to using cheaper laundry powder and this old cooking pot with lid serves as the perfect holder instead of some ugly box sitting around.

An old colander works great for an evening ice bucket.  As the ice melts the water falls into the beautiful bowl underneath.

Do you have a "thing" for enamelware?  If so I'd love to hear about your uses for the stuff.  And if you need to get rid of some... well you know I'll take it off your hands.