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| Anyone reuse wine bottles in some decor project like candle holders or something? What other every day items have you repurposed as decor? Pictures? |
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- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Wed, Sep 19, 12 at 8:42
| I used the corks from wine bottles to make a back splash in my bar area, and also behind the desk area in my kitchen which I use as a bulletin board.
We were just at a museum recently where an artist made an american flag out of found bits of red, white and blue plastic (bottle caps and such). It came out incredibly well and had a really interesting texture to it. So I suppose you could do the same thing with any kind of image you wanted...your imagination is your only hold back. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Flag of plastic
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| Annie I love that!!! Did you attach them directly to the wall or to a backer that you then attached to the wall? How did you determine design and spacing? Wanna come do mine? I've been saving corks for a project - just never knew what kind! |
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- Posted by powermuffin (My Page) on Wed, Sep 19, 12 at 12:12
| The coolest art (recycled) that I have seen lately was a picture made out of the labels on fruits and veggies - the little round sticky labels that have the product number on them. I don't remember the subject of the picture but it used thousands of the labels. That's imagination. Diane |
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| I've always liked the idea of repurposing items for home decor. Recently saw interesting chandies at Arhaus which use wine bottles. |
Here is a link that might be useful: wine bottle chandeliers
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| I'd be looking in the Trash to Treasure forums or other craft forums. The people over there are amazing. |
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- Posted by AnnieDeighnaugh (My Page) on Wed, Sep 19, 12 at 19:24
| DH made me a jig to hold the corks while I cut them in half with a hack saw. I then glued them directly to the wall with my hot glue gun. I figured if I used tile, the sheet rock would come down with it if I ever removed it, so why not just stick them on, and deal with the sheet rock if i ever remove them...though i doubt i will...i really like how they came out. The bar area took 200 corks, the desk area took 300. Placing them is no different than tile except the corks are more forgiving. |
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| Our elementary school did a huge, beautiful circular mural with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of different colored bottle caps. It was a great use of the tops, and was a fun project for the kids! It turned out amazing...I wish I had a picture! Or there's always something like this: ;) |
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| Here is one that I did a while back. Pretty much, the whole thing is recycled/repurposed in one way or another. It's in our master bathroom. The 3 cans on the left were tea bag containers from Harry and Davids given to me as gifts. I sprayed them, wrapped twine (that I found in the garage) around and now use them to hold cotton swabs, Q-tips and pocket change left over at the end of the day. The picture is of our kids, and I simply converted it to a sketch (in photoshop), and printed it on cardstock that I had. The shelf was on clearance and needed some re-gluing. It was black. I painted it white, with left over paint. The jar on the end was a baby food jar, and my daughter made it for me at a Green Festival a few years ago.
Not a masterpiece, by any stretch of the imagination, but it is useful and makes me happy. :) |
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| Annie, your bs is amazing, I saved this picture for my son, I give him bags of wine corks and he hasn't done anything with them yet, I attached a cork bathmat I saw once, thought it was neat ; gotta find the instructions though, I can't remember what the backing was. |
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| Chianti straw bottomed bottles with all colours of dripping wax, I remember those fondly ; they would have a cool retro look today. |
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- Posted by patty_cakes (My Page) on Thu, Sep 20, 12 at 16:18
| While at the San Francisco Childrens Museum this summer, I saw what I think was # 1. Who would ever have thunk! ;o) |
Here is a link that might be useful: chandelier
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| The ultimate repurposing. In the Renwick Gallery. Game Fish. mixed media: wood, plastic, beads, buttons, poker chips, badminton birdies, ping pong balls, rhinestones, coins, dice, plastic figurines, combs, miniature pinball games, dominoes, chess pieces, pool balls, and other found objects
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Here is a link that might be useful: Game Fish
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