Those cans are just ADORABLE...I knew when I started seeing these pics I would have wished I had participated!!! Great job ladies take a bow!!!! They are sooo cute!!!! Very creative...I'd be hard pressed to pick my favorite one!!!

Great job Phish....love your colors and the crash glass is spectacular....tell us more about it!

Phish! Great can! It's so amazing to see all the different versions! I love that we do this! I like the way you did the handle and the spout the same theme with the glass nuggets! And the crash glass is a surprise inside! Too cool!!!

Beautiful Can Phish!!

Barb that'll look great with all you blue BBs!!

Maria

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Holy snot dawg!! I really like the inside..is that painted, or tiles? Are those fish swimming inside? It is just gorgeous!! Who'd ever thunk of doin' that???
Very creative ladyronnie! Barb, you've got a really neat can.

Gosh, these cans are over the top! I would never have thought of doing the inside!
Crystal, I love your garden with the fence.
Phish, I think your vertical design is very unique; love the colors.
Ladyronnie, very pretty! Are the sides of the inside mosaiced too???

HRSG: I REALLY like the gradient effect! Nicely done!

CRYSTAL01: We made similar flowers :) I like the handle especially. Wish I'd thought of that!

PHISH: Love the crash glass inside!

LADYRONNIE: Those fish are just too...wait a minute! I made that one! ;)

BARB: Glad you like it! Glad I got it done mostly on time!
I was gonna put half marbles around just above the mirror so didn't clean the grout up well there, then discovered I didn't have enough marbles and couldn't afford the time to try to come up with more. I didn't want to mess up the paint then trying to get the grout cleaned up better after it had dried. So pretend that's supposed to be a muddy bank above the "pond" :)

BAMA: The green inside part is painted. I was going to mosaic it, but painting was much faster and I didn't have to grout it! The fish are clear collage glass, so the original orange shows through.

Barb, the can you got from Ronnie is so beautiful!!!! The extra couple of days waiting for the cans have been so worth it...they all ROCK!!!!

Ronnie, I love how you kept the original color of the can. I was going to leave the inside of mine orange, but after I finished the mosaic it didn't look right anymore so I painted it black.
My DD noticed the fish first on the inside of the can...clever idea! You did a wonderful job on it!

Barb (too)

OMG...these are all so wonderful. It's so interesting to see all the different, clever ideas that people come up with!! I'm a little late on responding to this, so all my comments are coming at one time...here goes!

hrsg - so pretty - and how clever to use the sun on the spout! And love what you did on the inside. Great job!

crystal - fabulous design - love that picket fence - well, just love every part of it, really.

phish - oooooh - love that flowy design and the blues are beautiful. And the crash glass at the bottom - very clever and pretty!

and ladyronnie - wow - you outdid yourself! Just beautiful. And love the bottom - with the fish - how imaginative!!! And what a great job painting the inside - it looks like stained glass!

I think that was all - hope I didn't miss one.

my first idea but it didn't turn out like I'd hoped on my test patch (the hidden bottom). I had painted various spots and wanted to see if it showed through the crash glass but it didn't as much as I would have liked, so I abandoned my crash glass plan and did the rest in blue!

It was fun to drop it off in person because I saw all the ball's in front that crafty_lady had or had made and I think I had seen some of them posted here on the site before? I was so hoping crafty_lady didn't see me in person, though, because I had also stopped at my friend's pool after work and was wearing a wet tshirt, orange shorts, a wet towel and hot pink swim shoes! It might have been a good color combination for a mosaic, but not for a wardrobe!

I didn't realize so many Michigan people are on this site. shrty411 I live in Ann Arbor. And yes, let me know next time you make the pilgrimage to Delphi! (even though east Lansing is a hike, we're so lucky to have it!)

Well, shoot phish, you are just down the road!! I'm close to Ford Lake. The first time I went to Delphi it took about an hour. That was before the work on 23. I think from Barb's it took about 1 1/2 hr. Even with gas, it saves shipping and I like to see the colors in person!

Maria

all of the cans turned out so great

ladyronnie - The inside is fantastic, and the dragonfly on the outside, gorgeous pattern!

It is so interesting to see the same item with all the various ideas.

Thank you also for the compliments on my watering can. ~: )

I tried responding last night but had no luck with this site. DRAT! Ladies, ALL these watering cans are so unique and interesting. Love the colors and designs everyone used. It's clear that a lot of attention and love went into them. CONGRATULATIONS everyone!

LADYR! Great job, adorable!
And you gals that all live near Delphi, I'm sooo jealous!!!

Ronnie, that's fabulous. I love the fish inside... very cool. Beautiful all around!

Ladyronnie. Beautiful can. Great job on the inside!!

Maria

Thanks everyone. The fish idea came first, to use clear glass that would make orange fish; the rest of it just evolved around the "pond" idea. What's funny is, I used clear tessarae for the dragonfly, and kept seeing it "clear" for two weeks after I stuck it on there. It dawned on me one day, once it had green glass around it, that it would forever be orange! Oh well!

Great job on all the cans. Too lazy to respond to each one.

We were out of town! I received a beautiful can! Will post photos tonight.

Can, can! Yes I can, can!

Today I came home from errands to find a HUGE box from shrty411!

Feast your eyes on thsi lovely watering can. Oh, and watch the moving butterfly. ~: )
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One of my favorite parts, the ladybug!!!
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Thank you Maria!!!

MARIA!!! Throw yours out??? Are you kidding??? That is gorgeous! So creative. WONDERFUL!!!! WOW!!

Oooh ahhh again, and look at that movin shakin butterfly. Great job. Mine was delivered this morning, hope it got there all in one piece!

OHHOWBEAUTIFUL!!!!!! Just lovely.

Wow Maria, the can you did is beautiful!!!! Did you cut out the hummingbirds? I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the colors!!!!
The ladybug really pops and the butterfly on the spout is a nice touch.
I think Helen will agree it was worth waiting for!

Barb

Hrsg, sorry about the big box. The reasonable one I had, just didn't quite fit. I was afraid of the squish factor. Glad you got it and like it!

Whew, thanks everyone. The thing just kept giving me fits!

The 'moving butterfly" I picked up at the $store at the last minute. I didn't know what to do with it, then I found the magnet worked, so I just sort of added it in there.

Barb-those hummingbirds were on a hummingbird feeder that leaked. I wish I could cut ANYTHING that good!! LOL

Maria

maria its absolutly gorgeous my DD would go nuts for this one she loves butterflies we just redid her room in all butterflies. I think adding the lil magnetic butterfly was a cute touch

Nice can Shirty! love the butterfly

2 More beautiful can's Ronnie the fish inside is adorable and such a clever idea..love the outside too...Maria love your can too beautiful colors and hummungbirds everything...ALL your can's are great!

Oh Maria!! How adorable!! All my fav things hummers and butterflies and glass oh my!!! LOVE the dew drop!!!!

That is so neat!! I love all the birds and butterflies!
And I just noticed the dew drop. It's just so interesting.
GREAT JOB!!

oh, shrty - what a neat can! Great job - love the colors and all the unusual pieces in it!

Wonderful! Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!

My can is from curbdiver!!!
It's a beautiful combination of china and glass! A beautiful rose plate adorns one side circled by more china. A wonderful glass glob diamond pattern is on the other. The fill in is a wonderful irridized light blue/pink glass.

BEAUTIFUL!!! THANK YOU PAT!!!

Here is a link that might be useful: Here's a link to my can!

Oh, you know I like that. Veeeery pretty. My delivery confirmation says mine was delivered today, somebody go check your mailbox. :)
Anxiously awaiting mine.

Wow! That is so cool with the two different sides. How did you cut those gg's? The plate just is beautiful.
Great job Curbdiver!!

Glad you like it, crystal! I was so worried, cause it's slightly out of the "norm". Couldn't decide on grout color - actually couldn't find one I liked. Wanted it to look "old-ish" like it had been around a while and been thru a bit in it's day. So-o-o-o-o....ended up using tea to stain it - That's what created the variations in grout color!

The pattern is "Everlasting"...wish I could remember the manufacturer...Wedgwood comes to mind, but that isn't necessarily the most reliable!! All the china parts are from that pattern.

Pat

Beautiful can Pat! Pretty plate! Nifty idea to color the grout with tea!

Maria

oh so very pretty. What a beautiful plate, and a great way to use it. And very clever with the tea stain - I think you accomplished what you wanted - with that "old-ish" look. I love it!

Curb, that can is really pretty. nice work and it does have an old look.

Tea stain! That is clever! I was wondering how you did the antiquing.

Oh Wow! GREAT JOB!!! SHEESH, They are all sooo pretty!!!

Just wonderful. LOVE the flower designs on the opposite side of the beautiful plate. Lovely piece.

Bama - forgot to answer your question about cutting the gg's....just took my tile nippers, lined 'em up and (amid lots of moaning and grunting!) kept squeezing till they snapped! SOme were too thick for my strength, but a little picking and choosing to find the right ones made it work out OK.

Pat

wow great idea with cutting the GG and the tea stain it really turned out great

Pat, I love the china plate you used and I never would have thought to use tea to stain grout. It DOES look like it has been used and has been around for awhile.

Barb

Are all the cans in?

sent mine out-was delivered monday but not posted yet...barb

I'm in AWE of you ladies !! Each one is so different & Amazing ! This was not an easy project - but you guys made it seem like child's play !!!

GREAT JOB !!!!!!!!!!