Blue Wine Bottles

RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post By moneypenny (Guest Post) (09/08/2007) I use them to edge my garden beds. I just dig a hole, bury them 1/2 way down and upside down. I put Christmas lights behind them. It is beautiful at night! RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post by WUVIE (7) | (07/29/2007) Profile | Contact On the note of melting the glass into blobs in a kiln, you could also cut the bottles into rings on a wet tile saw, then melt them in a kiln to form blobby rings. Then string them all together for a recycled and unique wind chime. Visit your favorite search engine and type in MOTHER EARTH NEWS RECYCLED WINDCHIMES. Very fun! KM RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post by badwater (628) | (07/25/2007) Contact There is a bottle house in Rhyolite, NV (a few hours out of Las Vegas). It's a house built with bottles instead of brick or other building supplies. Interesting! Built eons ago, mostly all the bottles were recycled from a saloon or tavern. They have tours there, a few times a year. It's just a thought, I bet you don't have that many, lol. RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post By Jill (Guest Post) (05/12/2007) Hey...I have a great idea for your bottles. Get a "Bottle Tree". Try searching for The Bottle Tree Man. They're beautiful! RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post by jazzbird719 (39) | (05/04/2007) Profile | Blog! | Contact We have a bottle tree made from blue bottles in our neigborhood. There are several sizes - wine bottles, the old milk of magnesia bottles and a smaller blue jar that I think Noxema skin cream came in. They are stuck on the ends of a dead small tree that does not get foliage anymore so they are always visible. It is very cool. RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post By Julie (Guest Post) (12/08/2006) You can drill a hole in the back, put a 20-string of Christmas lights through the hole and then decorate the outside with ribbon, wine charm and grapes or whatever you like. We do these and sell them and have been doing pretty well. RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post By kelly (Guest Post) (11/28/2006) Some time ago, my mom took cool bottles ( and the blue wine would have been way cool) and she hand painted "oil" etc on them, put a cork, some raffia sold them for a church fundraiser. You could turn them into hanging plant starters, take wire and "wrap" adding pretty glass beads. shells and so on. Good luck, sounds fun already! RE: Blue Wine Bottles Post By (Guest Post) (11/25/2006) Here's a few ideas: I saw the coolest use for cobalt blue wine bottles on HGTV. ---> They made a "Bottle Tree"... which was a long wood (or metal) spike (about 5 or 6 feet tall) with wood dowels sticking out of it. They put the bottles on the dowels that stuck out horizontally and planted IVY or another creeper and wound it around the "tree" in their yard. This looked SO VERY COOL in the sunshine and was weather proof. You could substitute the homemade tree with a small leafless shrub too. *** I would wind this with clear tiny Christmas lights & leave it up all year in the garden! ---> or use them to make a coat hanger by using a high quality bonding glue to a post or a small beam of wood ---> Set the bottles on a shelf or a window ledge and stuff with mini low volt lights & you have a beautiful conversation piece! ---> Break up the bottles in a brown bag wrapped in a towel using a hammer and use the glass (wear gloves) to do mosaics with. You could make stepping stones that would sparkle in the sun, or cover just about anything with the pieces. just go online to get instructions on how to do mosaics. --->You can buy a glass cutter, and make other stuff ---> One more idea. Take the bottles to somewhere that they have a kiln and you can melt the glass into blobs.