Bottle for Sara

I have really laid off of the wine bottles, though I always have a few ready to go lying around somewhere for the occasional sale. My friend Sara had commented on liking the bottle lamp I made and hung in my kitchen so I whipped one up for her for her birthday. The glass is frosted and the copper wire is treated with clear acrylic so she can hang it outside if she wants to.

I forgot to take a picture of it before giving it to her, so I snapped a quick one with my camera phone. Not the best pic, but the bottle turned out nicely. The chord for the lights comes out of a hole I drilled in the back, just like all my other bottles.

Personal Project: The Wedding Album

I like to think I can use this blog to post some of my personal undertakings as well as my public ones. So though, I primarily post things for sale here, I will occasionally show things off too.

I took much pride in my wedding as all brides do, but I felt especially connected to the whole process being as I made almost EVERYTHING for it. I cut sticks from my own yard, dried them, removed the leaves and put them into etched wine bottles with a single burgundy Gerbera Daisy for centerpieces (see the "Happy Accidents" post if you want to see a picture). I bought wreaths of faux leaves at Big Lots and cut each one apart to sprinkle around the tables and bar area. I duct taped fabric to some boxes and stacked them up in tiers to display the carmel apples we served, instead of cake. My husband and I spent hours cutting celophane wrap for those apples by the way. I could go on and on about all the little details I put together for that shin dig. I had a wonderful time doing it, and I will forever be proud of the accomplishment.

All that said, you can see why no ordinary photo album would do to properly commorate the event. So I took it upon myself to make a scrapbook. The scrapbook of all scrapbooks, in my opinion. Over fifty pages of GLORIOUS wedding memories all cut, pasted, fussed over, and eventually settled on by yours truly. Here are a few that I managed to get some decent shots of:

As you may have guessed, leaves were a theme for the book. Refelctive of the fall season in which the wedding was held.

Some disclaimers now, regardless of the heft and size of this project I am not now, nor will ever be the kind of woman to subject anyone to sifting through this book. It is strictly for my own viewing pleasure. Also, about the pink. I'm not a pink kind of girl, but the room we used as the bridal quarters was a kind of pinkish salmon color and the pages I used resemble that. There, glad to have cleared that up.

Dark amber S.N. bottle

Currently: SOLD
My first Simply Nouveau labeled bottle!

This is a dark amber glass with purple grapes and a chocolate bow that ties in nicely with the cream and charcoal tones of my new labels.

Green King Estate with Label

Currently: SOLD

My friend, Patrick said that drinking this Gwertz from King Estate is like "drinking flowers". I would have to agree. Now, with the help of some twinkly lights, this bottle of wine is like looking at flowers too. Prettyyyyyy.

My Own Labels

I needed some labels to apply to my wine bottles. I like the plain ones, but there is also definately an appeal to the ones with the labels still on them. Having been unsucessful at obtaining an alleged "label remover" I read about online, I came up with another solution...

I went to a neat little website I found by accident called My Own Labels (http://www.myownlabels.com/). They were great, easy to use, and they print up a fantastic product. It's so professional looking. They have all kinds of styles and then they have at least five color choices of each label. I went with some smaller labels, about the same size as Benton Lane uses. They are secretly supposed to be for baked goods, but the actual wine labels were bigger than I wanted anyway.

Laurel Ridge bottle

Currently: SOLD (to another Laurel Ridge lover, along with another super cool bottle I didn't have a chance to take a picture of!)

One of the few bottles that I kept the label on, this bottle came from Laurel Ridge in Carlton, Oregon. My favorite vinyard.

Green Erath bottle

Currently: SOLD

This was a bottle of Pinot from Erath vinyards. Though the wine was a delight, the bottle was a stubborn project. However, I refused to be thwarted by an unruly wine bottle and my efforts prevailed at last!

Bottle lantern project

My newest project as of late.

I'm trying to configure a lantern out of the wine bottles I'm making.

I've tried hanging it around the house in different spots. I bought a set of Christmas lights to attach it to, instead of using an extention chord.

Finally, I decided I liked it the best in the kitchen window, above the sink. It makes a great nightlight and the extention chord hides behind the ugly curtains.