A lifestyle piece doing the rounds suggests a simple, cheap art project that works for a group of friends or a quiet evening alone.
If you and your friends have not planned a proper evening together in a while, here is a small idea that costs very little and fills a few hours: painting your own wine glasses.
The suggestion comes from a lifestyle post published by The Ghana Report, which lays out what you need, what to serve, and why the activity works just as well on your own.
What you need
The list is short:
- Wine glasses (the kind with the stem attached)
- Acrylic paint
- Paintbrushes
- Q-tips, preferably the pointed type, for fine detail
The writer suggests buying the glasses, brushes and Q-tips from a Dollar Store to keep costs down, and picking up the acrylic paint from Walmart. Those are American retail chains, so the tip lands more neatly for readers in the United States. She bought four colours, but says that is a matter of taste rather than a rule — it is your glass, so use as many or as few colours as you like.
Plan the night properly
One piece of practical advice stands out: do not schedule this for a night before an early work morning. Depending on how detailed you want your design to be, the painting can stretch over a few hours.
Food, in her telling, is not optional. The snack list includes cheese and crackers served with fruit and nuts, hummus with pita, a raw vegetable platter, and chicken cutlet cut into bite-size pieces. For anyone watching their carbohydrate intake, she suggests swapping the pita for carrots or cucumber. A good music playlist is the other requirement.
It also works alone
The more interesting part of the post is not the craft itself but the argument around it. The writer says she often does activities like this by herself and finds it relaxing and therapeutic. "I don't have to always be around people to be having fun," she writes.
Her point is that friends get busy, and waiting for company can mean never doing the thing at all. Her own list of solo pleasures includes running around downtown Sarasota and by the beach, blogging over a coffee and a chocolate croissant at Starbucks, and getting her nails done when she needs a lift.
That last part is where the piece speaks to a wider audience. For Ghanaians living abroad, especially those who moved recently and are still building a social circle, learning to enjoy an evening alone is less a lifestyle tip than a survival skill. And for readers at home, the underlying idea travels well enough: cheap materials, a few hours, some food, and company if you can get it.
