More bottles - and my sleeping helpers!

I talk about the bottles I worked on here and here in this post, I show you how I finished it up.

Most are with scroll-work . . .

... and this one has a hibiscus, our national flower - which I must improve on!

And this Bols bottle, I painted with stylised chrysanthemums, with little gold-dust bits in their centres :)

And here are my girls, who are ALWAYS at my side when I am painting - my sleeping helpers!

Jam-filled!! :)

These don't need words, except that these are filled with blackcurrant jam - confiture de cassis - made with love, in Lyon, France, by my friend Pierre :)

If you want to see them empty, go here :)

Two jam bottles

Yes, I do have a way with titles, don't I? NOT! Hahahaah!!!

But here's what I did yesterday: painted the four faces of two little bottles, that I plan to fill with homemade jam. Not in my home, but in Pierre's - my daughter's father-in-law, and a dear friend. Another person who's near and dear, whom I haven't yet met :)

Every year, we get lots of lovely jam from him, all made in France! Chuan and I can't finish it all, and so we share. This year, Nicole, Larnee's MIL also sent us delicious three citron marmalade. Two bottles were too much, so one is with my sister, Sandy.

And these bottles will be filled, and will go to two friends I'm meeting next week :)

I've yet to set the paint in the oven. I thought I'd wait till the end of the week, when I might have something else to add.

When I've filled them with the blueberry jam - which is blue-and-black and beautiful, I'll take more pix, and put them up :)