Decorating recycled bottles or jars

[dynocat]

Looking for a fall wedding on-the-cheap. I need ideas for recycling glass jars or bottles into vases on the tables. I've seen bottles with stained glass paint, paper strips glued on (decoupage style) and rocks glued on.

Any good ideas out there on where to get bottles of a similar size/shape or what might be cute?

At least we have a long time to figure something out.

Thanks

[dynocat]

No one's done anything with bottles or jars? :confused: Crafty bunch of hippies this is. ;) :hippie:

[Unkle_John]

The only thing I have done with bottles and jars is to make them into bottle trees (http://www.happyhippie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=2980). But the local kids decided that they would best be used for target practice. Yeah, I haven't been happy about that. The other use I planned was a bottle/jar wall (http://www.happyhippie.com/vb/showthread.php?t=3972).

But collecting enough bottles and jars is a time consuming process, so I will most likely plant some wall hedges along the back of the property instead. This will keep prying eyes and idle hands away from my artwork, give me more privacy, and shield me from the west wind. The house across the alley from me was demolished a few months ago because some kids set it on fire. Probably the same ones who busted my bottles.

But besides that, I plan on making sculptures and such with the bottles and jars that I have collected. I have turned a few into art pieces, like this:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/art/witchjar01.jpg

[LIBRA]

I used mason jars as vases for wildflowers, that was my gift for a friends wedding. Other then that I want to make a bottle wall out of wine bottles, and beer bottles. Sorry no other help for ya :)

[Crochety Carpenter]

I used to have an inexpensive kit that you can buy that allows you to cut the top off of bottles and then glueing it to the bottom to create either goblets or vases.

[LIBRA]

They sell engravers for glass too, that would be cool! I saw a video on it a while back on thread bangers, check em out they have tons of great ideas!

[yugogypsy]

AWW Come on you guys, we can figure this out, it ain't rocket science.

A wedding for fall--bouquets of leaves in the jars, or fall flowers like chrysanthemum's, tye some raffia or jute-(or hay string) around the neck of the bottle or some fall coloured ribbon.

If you use dry leaves you could put a few shiny pebbles in the bottom of the jar. Or you could layer up some dried peas, beans and barley, to be given to the newlyweds to make soup over the winter. (Include your favorite recipe!)

Coloured pasta in a jar for another dish, again include recipe. Garden seeds, bird seed.

Get funky and go back to some of those awful "art" projects with jars that we all did in school.

There's bound to be a solution in someone's head!

Lois:)

[Unkle_John]

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/art/bottletree02.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/art/bottletree01-1.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Summer/DSCF0007.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Summer/DSCF009.jpg

[NCW_Woodnymph]

Ooh I love the dried leaves idea! Could you tell us when in fall? Early fall there are quite a few wildflowers, whereas late fall you have to be more creative. Also, do you have any colors in mind?

If you do something with wine or beer bottles you can usually get them from local bars and restaurants. Added bonus- most of them don't recycle so you get to help out that way too. :D