peppysis: pot

Thursday, March 18, 2021

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!