Have you ever noticed the underside of a *jam jar?
Me neither… until by happy accident. I checked all the old jars I have collected up, and they all seem to be the same. (I’ll wait here, you go off to the kitchen if you need to check yours now)
They all have a ring of raised dots – like glass Braille – I guess an anti-slipping thing.
Turns out if you wash out a jar and instead of drying it, leave it to dry naturally on the nearest flat surface, like maybe an inky page of an open sketchbook, a beautiful ring of dots appear where the water has run down the sides and puddled round these dots!
Oh yeh – and if you get carried away trying to recreate the effect you can obliterate the dot circles just as easily with too much water!
The patterning reminded me of sewing machined lines (unthreaded needle, just perforating the paper) …that seemed like the best thing to go with the page in progress
So that’s what became of page 36!
* strictly speaking mine are all coffee, mayo & pasta sauce jars. I don’t like jam. Funny how they’re always called jam jars…
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Oh my gosh! That’s awesome!! I totally went & looked at a bunch of jars in the fridge… I think I might dip some in paint! Sweet!
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Coolio! Show us your dippings when you’re done!! 😀
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Thanks for sharing that brilliant technique!
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my pleasure! have fun!
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I love dots and what a great happy accident.
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Oh me too! Dots are wonderful! X
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So cool! Great discovery.
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thankies Martha! So glad I’m not tidy and well organised or these things would never happen!!
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Your quirky creativity is always uplifting eph! thank you. Philippa
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and ditto to your words of encouragement, thank you too!
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You’ve jarred my brain loose again as you often do with your discoveries, thanks…
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Lol! 😀
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These are fantastic! I love them 😀 Gorgeous 🙂
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Aw thanks Miranda! 😀
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