Textured Vase Out of a Broken Mug

Hello creative people,

What would you do with your old mugs other than throw them in to the trash bin.. ?

Here's an idea, you can make this textured vase and add it to your home decor.

Try it out, it's easy, cost effective and it takes less than half an hour to complete the whole project.

So lets get started.

1. An old Mug. ( Mine has lost its handle). You can also use a mug which has a slight crack or a discolored old mug.

2. Glue Gun and Five glue sticks

3. Black Acrylic or lacquer Paint.

4. Paint Brush

5. A Gold spray can.

First clean your mug surface with a dry tissue paper to ensure there is no dust or water on the surface that you are going to cover with glue.

Heat up your glue gun.

Then put vertical lines of glue starting from top or bottom. You need not worry about having straight lines or completing a line at one go. It's alright to start from one end and stop at the middle, and then start again from the other end to complete the lines.

You can also do your own design if you do not like just lines.

Once the glue is hardened it will look like the one on the image. And you will feel it's quite hard, which is why I suggested that you can even use a mug which has a slight crack on it, because the hardened glue will keep the mug in one piece for some time longer.

Get a bit of acrylic or lacquer paint and paint the glue covered mug. The blob of paint shown on the picture is all I used to cover the whole mug. I preferred to leave the inside of the mug white therefore I just brushed through the outer surface, You need not bother to fully cover the glue part with paint. Just one coat is fine.

All you need to be careful is to cover the glue rim on the top and bottom of the mug, so no one will know it's glue that has made the effect once its sprayed.

Since I wanted to leave the inner surface of the mug white, I cleaned the inner surface with a wet tissue before the paint dried. If you are using Lacquer, you may need to wet the tissue with thinner or turpentine.

Leave the painted mug to dry.

I used a polythene bag to cover my hand so I don't need to worry cleaning off the gold spray stains from my hand later.

Spray the outer surface and the bottom of the mug with the gold spray can.

Once done, take a wet tissue and clean the inner surface if there is gold paint stains on it before it drys.

Leave few minutes to dry.

You are done..!

Thank you.. and Hope you will enjoy up-cycling your old mugs.