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February 25th, 2009
diy project: glass jar frames

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i’m not a big framed picture person but every once in a while i wish i had a clever way to display a choice photo of the cats or ac. so i was excited to hear from kelly at photojojo about a fun little glass jar project they’d posted. the project couldn’t be easier (you basically just cut each picture to fit the bottle you’re using) and the results are such a playful spin on traditional frames. click here for the full project instructions and more pictures. [thanks, kelly!]

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69 comments
February 25th, 2009 - 11:15 am

GREAT idea!! So cute on a windowsill!!

Linsi said:
February 25th, 2009 - 11:37 am

Love love love this! Re-using the glass bottles and jars gives it a purpose just as great as before (up-cycling, anyone?) but it will also cause house guests to actually stop and look at your pictures for a change. So creative.

Renae said:
February 25th, 2009 - 11:55 am

Ooohh!! Now I can do something with all of those glass jars that I was never really quite sure why I was saving. I love this!

susan said:
February 25th, 2009 - 11:59 am

this is funny because i started to collect coke bottles to use as a vase. it is slim enough to display anywhere even if you have a small workspace (like me) without getting in your way.

Mary Kate said:
February 25th, 2009 - 12:00 pm

What was the stop motion cartoon that had the photos of the kids in the jars?? Anyone remember that?

Leigh said:
February 25th, 2009 - 12:16 pm

Ooohh love this! My husband won’t let me put ANY of our wedding pics up in our apt because he thinks it is cheesy. Maybe I can convince him to let me display one in a jar!

Mouse said:
February 25th, 2009 - 12:21 pm

I love this idea for a desk or a windowsill! I need a glass-cutting kit, STAT!

Amy said:
February 25th, 2009 - 12:52 pm

wow, it’s just perfect.
another “why didn’t i think of that” idea.

Andrea said:
February 25th, 2009 - 1:21 pm

That is really a cool idea… I just love it…

Andrea

Patricia said:
February 25th, 2009 - 1:22 pm

What an absolutely lovely idea!

Brit said:
February 25th, 2009 - 1:30 pm

awesome! so cute!

Tommy said:
February 25th, 2009 - 1:40 pm

Very clever!

Kara said:
February 25th, 2009 - 2:03 pm

A spin on using a glass vase as a photo display. I can imagine using vintage bottles, perfume bottles and food storage jars in the same way.

katee said:
February 25th, 2009 - 2:07 pm

Ooooooh look, Pete Dee in a jar!!!

SFDC said:
February 25th, 2009 - 2:07 pm

Mary Kate, I think maybe you’re remembering the Teeny Little Super Guy cartoon? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teeny_Little_Super_Guy

Also, Grace, I’m curious why you don’t like framed photographs.

Brian said:
February 25th, 2009 - 3:07 pm

haha… that one picture is of Zach Klein…. http://www.zachklein.com/

spencer said:
February 25th, 2009 - 4:01 pm

thats a great use for a jar!

February 25th, 2009 - 5:03 pm

this is such an awesome idea. i think i’ll be putting it to use.

alex said:
February 25th, 2009 - 7:45 pm

i love it!
i’ve already run out of wall space for my framed art so this is a great solution for displaying photos and smaller works around the house.

February 25th, 2009 - 8:10 pm

I love photojojo. Great ideas. I’m collecting jars right now.

Chessa! said:
February 25th, 2009 - 8:12 pm

LOVE! what a wonderful idea. I AM one of those “frames” people but this is so fun and clever.

LittleMissFlip said:
February 25th, 2009 - 9:17 pm

super fun! i love it when ordinary things are repurposed to have a whole new 2nd life to them!

Mary Kate McDevitt said:
February 25th, 2009 - 11:23 pm

SFDC / haha yes! ok so not photographs or in glass jar but it reminded me of that. That ended up bugging me that I couldn’t fully remember so thanks for knowing that! : )

Bianca said:
February 26th, 2009 - 2:45 am

Great idea. I’ll try it!

Devi said:
February 26th, 2009 - 9:57 am

Oooh, so clever!! Thanks for the link! It’s a great idea to use my bottle & jar collection in a practical way :)

snarky art critic said:
February 26th, 2009 - 10:27 am

great idea! I wonder how it would look to get the pictures printed on transparencies and then cut to fit.

no1uno said:
February 26th, 2009 - 10:31 am

I have a big windowsill with a big empty jar on it that was just waiting for an idea! It was gonna be a terrarium but not so sure about its future now. Maybe pics of plants that change with the season…..

Claire said:
February 26th, 2009 - 4:01 pm

What a neat idea! Great use for old jam jars and photos tired of sitting in a box. Maybe I’ll use graduating jars and put a child’s photo as she grows up (infant-toddler-school age-preteen, etc.) or a pet (puppy to big dog)! Thanks for the inspiration!

kitty said:
February 27th, 2009 - 8:43 am

I am excited.
Thanks for the ideas…
Very cool.
kitty

Elena said:
February 27th, 2009 - 12:15 pm

So simple and so perfect!Thanks for the idea!

Sharene said:
February 27th, 2009 - 3:17 pm

That is so clever! Very cute idea, I never was one for photo frames either, I might give this a try though

byABPryor said:
February 28th, 2009 - 8:00 am

For some reason – I collect glass bottles & jars… I am not sure why… Perhaps because I am convinced they will go away and be replaced by those loathsome plastic bottles. Any who – thanks for the GREAT find… I love it!!!!!

elaine joy said:
March 1st, 2009 - 9:12 pm

so cool to see this idea posted…i used the nescafe coffee jar…just peel off the label, and it’s the perfect size to store pens and scissors…i also used it to display some pics of street graffiti i took when i was in Greece…looks so cool on my desk…

lizzie said:
March 13th, 2009 - 4:07 pm

I loooove those bottle frames…so light,simple and unexpeted…

jeannie said:
March 15th, 2009 - 1:10 am

love the idea!

sir jorge said:
March 18th, 2009 - 3:22 pm

that’s a great project

Michelle said:
March 18th, 2009 - 8:56 pm

I don’t usually take time to write a comment – but this simple idea deserved it….thanks

Susan said:
March 19th, 2009 - 1:54 am

I am so wearing the I love NY shirt right now. I love it and the jars.

Jess said:
March 19th, 2009 - 4:59 pm

I’m on this site daily and saw this on the 25th. Just yesterday I finished a candle and kept the jar because it was too nice to throw away, but I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it yet. Today I stumble on this page again…I think I need to get cutting because this is just too much of a coincidence!

Becky said:
March 21st, 2009 - 2:03 pm

I strongly suggest that when you “frame” your pictures this way that you do NOT put them in a window sill where they will look so pretty. I have had glass objects left in the windowsill refract sunlight like a laser beam 86 pages through the paperback book that was sitting next to it. It is a good thing I was home to see the small wisp of smoke coming from the book, instead of returning to a burned down house. Just a thought.

Beth said:
March 21st, 2009 - 6:46 pm

This is just perfect. I have jars all over the place that I can’t seem to throw away.

March 22nd, 2009 - 10:47 am

Truly Inspirational!

Nisreen said:
March 23rd, 2009 - 5:37 am

this is nice and fun. Thanks

March 23rd, 2009 - 11:38 am

this is a brilliant idea

adelle said:
March 24th, 2009 - 9:29 pm

cute! Very cute

Jesse said:
March 25th, 2009 - 10:07 am

Yay! I love this idea. I do a lot with jars as is, this is perfect! I think I might even do more pictures on the inside, say, facing the opposite way, so sometimes I can turn it around to a new picture. I like rotatable stuff!

Colectronico said:
March 25th, 2009 - 3:05 pm

O yes that is the perfec mix betwen Concervancy and Kool Style!

March 26th, 2009 - 3:39 am

EXTRA ORDINARY!!!!

hai lanlan said:
March 26th, 2009 - 6:54 am

haha ,so clever! i love this too!

sea--hailan said:
March 26th, 2009 - 6:58 am

haha,so excellent! and it was also environmental !

virus1973 said:
March 26th, 2009 - 10:35 am

Great idea I will copy it ! :)

March 27th, 2009 - 4:38 pm

Love, love, love this – am definitely going to do this! (on a high shelf away from the hands of my small people).

suzi said:
March 29th, 2009 - 7:45 am

wonderful….just to cool…love the idea…..thanks

mayaz said:
March 29th, 2009 - 6:35 pm

great idea….

March 30th, 2009 - 2:10 pm

Great idea!

IRIS said:
March 30th, 2009 - 11:34 pm

AWESOME IDEA-THANKS!

vraiment said:
March 31st, 2009 - 11:03 am

Everyone is oooing and awwwwing this…but doesn’t anyone find this as tacky as I do. It is Gawd awful and tacky. Maybe for a small kids craft, but never to be displayed in a person’s home. At least I would hope. I am sorry if this sounded mean.

teabags said:
April 3rd, 2009 - 5:43 pm

i think its an ingenious way to use all the pasta sauce jars my mum insists on keeping just in case we need to keep something in the fridge even though we have plastic container for that! thanks

Cathy said:
April 5th, 2009 - 5:13 am

have to say this is so simple but so effective. and brilliant use of a recyclable material that otherwise just gets chucked away

syazu said:
April 26th, 2009 - 3:58 am

nicely done..

but do u know where cn i find a framed photo in a bottle?
or how to do it?

i have one, n it’s really cool…my friend gave me as a present.. but she won’t tell me where did she buy it lol

Melissa said:
April 29th, 2009 - 11:52 am

OMG, this is a great idea!!! I did it, and they look adorable!!!! Now i have room for all of the glass bottles that i wanted to save for some reason!!! hahaa!

Kimmithy said:
May 12th, 2009 - 1:56 pm

this is Awesome!!! I am having a fall wedding and we are having mason jars on the table with candle and this will match them…I am going to put pictures of my FiancĂ© and I in them. awesomeness Idea!!! love it.

May 15th, 2009 - 2:30 pm

Wow that is a neat idea, I usually just use old glass bottles for creative looking vases, but I will definitely have to try this out, thanks!

MaddyLane said:
May 18th, 2009 - 1:29 pm

Super fun, very creative. Do you do link exchanges, I have fun ideas to sahre too ;)

May 20th, 2009 - 12:56 am

What a great idea! I have a ton of jars that I just didn’t know what to do with.

vin said:
June 28th, 2009 - 8:00 am

amazingly brilliant concept:)

Events said:
July 13th, 2009 - 3:55 am

That’s actually a great way to make use of jars and bottles. Never really thought of that before, and it’s so simple.

Virginia said:
August 1st, 2009 - 4:38 pm

Just sent all my glass jars to the recycling center ( I hoped I could use them, after several years of taking up cabinet space). This idea is absolutely wonderful! Guess, I have to start a new collection to use in this manner! Thanks…how novel!

August 4th, 2009 - 11:47 pm

what if you then filled the jar with transparent drying resin? I’d think youd get a sort of water magnification effect, but without the water ruining your picture.

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