Pink Roses Votive - Portraits of Animals

This glass votive is etched by hand and finished with a clear label I printed of my photo “Pink Roses”. It’s made from a repurposed condiment jar 3.5″ tall x 3″ diameter and comes with an LED tea light. Price includes shipping.

Pink Roses Votive

I etched the inside of the bottle to better diffuse the light from the candle, then printed the design on a purchased clear vinyl label and burnished it onto the vase. The curved glass areas are painted with magenta permanent alcohol ink.

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Pink Pasture Roses

My pink pasture roses are enthusiastically blooming. They are an old-fashioned native rose, brilliant pink but “single”, meaning they have only one row of petals, five in total in that row. Their thorns, a mix of short, medium and long and all needle sharp, line their stems as numerous as salt grains on a pretzel, and I, typically gloveless in every situation, will don gloves when I cut a bouquet to put in the vase by my door. The scent of roses can be cloying and even heavy, but these roses smell light and fresh, like a clean June morning. Unhybrid and totally native, they are as tough as the clay they will grown in. This rose was in the yard when I moved in, and may have been here for decades; in my experience all those old roses were a tough bunch, disappearing under the lawnmower’s blade only to reappear the next year, or sprouting up in an untended yard where they had been long forgotten.

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