Painted Coke Bottles

My husband loves Coke out of glass bottles so once in a while he treats himself to a 6 pack of them. This weekend he treated him self as I had bought some cider and nibbles for watching Eurovision (YAY Denmark by the way).
After he had gone through them I saw them sitting in the recycling box in the kitchen and thought that they were too nice a bottle to just throw away so I looked for some ideas on Pinterest for reusing them. I finally came across a pin which suggested spray painting the inside and using them as vases. There was a similar pin using a syringe thing to squirt acrylic paint in to bottles too.

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The doesn't seem to be any instructions to this pin just the visual step by step.

Now I don't have any spray paint but I do have gloss house paint. I wonder if that would do?

Only one way to find out.

So i made a makeshift funnel for the paint and as i tipped some one, i noticed it was very thick - like blancmange so wouldn't go down the funnel properly.

It toke AGES to swirl the thick paint round the bottle but I managed it and it looked good! By this point my hands were covered in red paint

As per the instructions, I left it upside down in the shed to dry out and the leftover paint to trickle out.

 I left it there for about 3 hours. I went for a peek and found this

 

Hmmm. I don't think that's meant to happen.

So I decided to try again. This time with some acrylic paint I'd bought from Home Bargains last summer for a project with the kids.

There wasn't a lot of paint and again it was a bit thick so I thought I'd add a bit of PVA glue to water it down a little bit.

 It slopped around lovely in the bottle getting a good covering. Again I went and stood it upside down in the shed and left it for a few hours. When I went to check it It seemed the paint had sliped off all the contours of the bottle. Not what I wanted but still a far better covering than the gloss!

I was dissapointed but in fairness, the acrylic and glue bottle did come out pretty good really. Although the glue did make it go a little transparent against the light. Oh and I can't use the bottle as a vase (as i'd planned) because of the glue.
I think if I did this again I would have to get one of the big squeezy bottles of acrylic paint and use that. The other thing I will add is that when you put the bottles upside down to drain, you WILL make a mess when you lift them up as my shoe found out.

In conclusion