Old Glass Bottles Made Pretty and Useful

Creating with my glass bottle stash!

 

I saw this cool idea on Pinterest one evening and I

really liked it! It said on the picture it was a tutorial,

but when I clicked onto the site it came from, Pinterest

wouldn't let it go through saying the page had a security

issue. Well it looked easy enough to do without the

tutorial so I decided I could wing it!

 

I have a large stash of glass bottles, and I love things

with twine on them. I also love working with paper

and using lace on things.

 

Heck, I love doing and trying anything at least once

and if it speaks to me.....we roll!

 

 

So.............I bounced up out of my chair, grabbed what

I needed to make one, looked at the picture one more

time, and dug in. Once I was done I decided I wanted a

top for the bottle. So I took the twine with my trusty

Modge Podge and starting wrapping the twine around

and around. I stuck the bottom of the wrapped twine

in the top of the bottle before it totally dried to make

sure it would sit inside the bottle. Then I kept wrapping

a little wider to give it a lip so it wouldn't sink in and....

wala....a bottle cap! I cut the twine long so I could tie

it to the bottle so it wouldn't get lost if it were to fall

off, added a little pearl in the top and it was done!

 

 

The cap actually kind of looks like a

tiny birds nest with an egg in it...

I liked that!

 

This was the first time I had made this type of paper flowers.

Omgosh are they fun!

 

This is the tutorial for the flowers I used here.

 

Just draw circles on paper, which for these I used

old book pages, and then cut the circles out on the

circle line you drew, then roll the paper.

 

After I finished the bottle I couldn't help but

keep making these flowers!

 

Had a bunch when I finally tired of doing them lol!

 

Two of the paper flowers have pearl

centers and one has a rhinestone.

I had to have a little sparkly ya know! :)

 

So this was mine all done!

and

This was theirs..................

 

 

Not bad and I love it!

Now I got two more to make to make a trio set.

 

I'll make each of those a little bit different and

with different laces. This is easy peasy and fun!

Always pays to keep the garbage! :)

 

P.S. I tried to get to the tutorial for this diy idea

and the site owner must have fixed the issue

because you can now access the site. But!...

it's in French! You can always do go to google

translate, copy paste the words, and it will

translate it to English for you....but you really

shouldn't need to do that....it's pretty easy to

figure it out on your own.

 

TaTa till later!

 

Thank you visiting! I love to share my trash treasues!

Go Green!

 

Hugs, Love, and Blessings!

 

 

With Sincere Appreciation I Would Like To

Thank The Following Websites Below!

My Twine Wrapped Bottle Was Featured At...

Hometalk And Face Book Hometalk

Such a nice surprise! Thank You!

Go Green ~ Recycled T-Shirt Produce Shopping Bag

 

Another awesome idea for recycled t-shirts and living green!

 

Is This Not Just The Coolest!

 

Reminds me of those plastic stretchy bags you see in the stores for produce. This is even better! This can be washed and used again and again, and.....with several smaller ones you can use them to separate all your goodies but carry them all in one larger bag....way cool!

 

Well I loved it and just had to try to make it!

 

 

 

 

With a bag of strawberries inside....see how it stretches.

 

 

I was on Pinterest night before last and

come across this idea for this produce

market bag made from a t-shirt.

I thought it just so cool!

I search it down and found the blog from

the girl who made them...Well as luck will have it,

she had a tutorial on how to make them.

 

I nabbed one of hubby's t-shirts and sat

down to make my own. I hope he wasn't partial to it,

he was sleeping when I started this hehe.

 

It took a while to figure it all out because she didn't really go into enough detail for like how to measure the markings for cutting the slits, so I just winged it and I did it!

Took freaking forever though geesh!

 

I know one thing now that I've made one, I need to make it shorter in length. When I got it done I hung it over my shoulder and thought perfect! But....once I put some fruit in it, which was just three navel oranges, it stretched down to my knees lol! Must go shorter in length for sure because if I were to put much more in it, it will be to my ankles!

 

I'm working on some smaller ones now, and I just like it so much that I'm going to make one or two without all the slits so I can use them when I go junking and hitting the flea markets. I think they would be perfect for that!

 

These can be used for other things too...like a beach bag which what I'm thinking is, all that sand that gets on stuff would just fall out of the bag instead of your car or floor, or a laundry bag, or storing larger toys, and I'm sure if thought about enough there would be a ton more uses. The way it stretches, you can get a whole lot in one bag! And it doesn't tear. These little babies are pretty darn durable.

 

You know, I was thinking a tee slit up like this with a tank under would be kinda cute to wear for summer. Might have to try that too. The kiddies might like those!

 

Oh how bout a lamp shade,

or a belt or headband,

or a shower curtain...

my mind just goes all over the place with ideas hehe!

 

If you like this idea too,

here is the blog where I found the tutorial for this.

Visit Delia Creates 

I found another blog via Delia's with another tutorial for the same thing but the slits go up and down on theirs...

Visit Between the Lines.

 

Well it was really fun to do and now that I have done one it will go much faster. My next ones are going to have some frayed rolled roses with bling on them just to fancy them up a little bit...oh I have several ideas to make em pretty.

 

Well if you make them...enjoy and have fun!

 

TaTa Till Later!

 

Love, Hugs, and Blessings!

Debi