We picked up a promotional six-pack of Coke, with glass bottles in the "vintage" style. They're not the traditional wavy Coke bottles, but look more like this:
We're saving the bottles as we drink the Coke, we just love the shape of them. Can anyone think of crafty ideas of how to use them, or transform them into something else?
I like using old bottles all over the house for organizing my stuff. For example, I store cooking oil and sauces in bottles next to the stove and labelled bottles hold medications in the bathroom cabinet. Instead of having product placement or company logos on my shelves, there's the beauty of old-fashioned bottles and tea-stained labels.
Reed Diffusers are my favorite. Coloring a bottle black sounds counterproductive, the beauty is in the sun or light going through the imperfections. Even my son's each have on in their rooms. Just buy the oil and reeds separately, like at Target or Walmart. I personally was willed 1000 antique bottles and will be selling them eventually- just have to somehow figure out what they are worth, harder than it looks.
i had some leftover magnetic paint, so i painted a bunch of short bottles with it, without adding a second coat (so they're black). Then I stuck some magnetic letters on them. There's more than a dozen, so they look kind of cool sitting in a row. Eventually they'll do something useful, like hold pencils.
You could also paint them a dark color, then scrape off some of hte paint in designs - swirlies, hearts, whatevers. If you stick some little christmas lights in there it might look pretty funky.
Cutting off the tops and making tall glasses/tumblers? Fun *and* function. :)
Also--and this probly won't look very good in a bottle with a lot of detail like the ones you have-- , does anyone remember making those colored sand designs in clear jars? I think I did a couple as a third class project. Ah, yes, something iike this, but not as... boring. :) --> http://www.kinderinfo.com/crafts/colored-sand-art-activities.htm
I have seen (maybe on Instructables) bookshelves constructed with bottles as the supports. Very nice. The shelves have holes in them that fit the neck and base end of the bottles, which might be a pain with this particular shape--it was done w/beer bottles--but it was really cool looking. Also, if you're familiar with bottle trees they could go to good use there. Bottle trees are rather a southern thing, but they're very cool.
regards,
leslie
You could put colorful dish soap in one then add a pourer thingy and use it as a decorative dishsoap dispenser. Here's what I mean by pourer... before now I didn't know what they were called...
http://search.ablekitchen.com/?Search=Pourers&Click=2&gclid=CIv5jZzqk5ACFUWoGgodhRxk-w
