Friday, May 3, 2013

Bottles and Baubles

One of my favorite things to do is to just wonder around a Michaels craft store. You end up finding so many new and interesting things. There was one time I found this "steam punk" collection that was separate from the regular jewelry and It had the coolest stuff. It had tiny gears, decorative keys, and more...but what I found to be really cool were the tiny glass vials. They had a package of bottles of varying sized most no bigger than two inches and they all had little cork stoppers. This was one of my favorite finds and there are a bunch of cool things you can make with them. 
first of all, here are the bottles:

One of my favorite things to do with these bottles is just fill them with cute stuff. you can put anything in  them really. I also like to make earrings or necklaces out of them. 

Difficulty: 3/10
Access to Materials: 6/10

You are going to need:
Tiny bottles
Wire
Glue (preferably krazy glue or something that can bond to glass)
bits and things of your choosing!

First you pick a bottle and take the cork out. If you are making a necklace out of it you will want to make a small look with your wire leaving a tiny bit of extra wire to stick into the cork. You will want to glue this down, probably with the krazy glue since it with seep into the cork. then all you have to do is fill your bottle! I like to use really tiny origami cranes or stars, but you can use beads or anything really. Some popular stuff that ends up looking really cool is sand with some tiny sea shells. 
Once you have your bottle the way you want it, you're probably going to want to seal everything in so the cork wont come out or break. Glue the outside of the cork then stick it into the bottle and let it dry. Then you're done! 
If you want to take the extra step, you can even make your own stopper out of clay and glue things onto the outside of the bottle, but that can get pretty messy and you'd need a higher quality, more toxic glue. 

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