Make A Wish – Tiny Bottle Christmas Tree Decoration

Following on from last week, my box of 35 tiny Christmas bottle tree decorations have gone off to find new homes .......

….. and with them a renewed vigour for me to explore what else I can do with small bottles.  I think I have another twenty in a box, but they need a really good clean and polish before I can do anything with them. Then when this lockdown is over I will probably order some more from The Works (6 for £1), however, at the moment they are out of stock so fingers crossed!

This is a new design doesn’t have to be just for Christmas.  Inside is a small, solid, silver coloured wish charm, bought from eBay years ago (and still available) leftover from the time when I was making wish bracelets, this was attached along with a tiny, blue, iridescent bead to a silver eye pin and pushed into the middle of the cork stopper.

In the bottom of the bottle are lots of tiny, silver confetti stars.

I attached a hollow silver star to a thread and wrapped it round the neck of the bottle and on the top I glued a decorative,silver spacer bead with a screw eye hook and small pearl bead.  I didn’t put a label on the bottle this time as I thought the wish and stars more or less said it all.

I have had a couple of the tiny thermometers for years, from the time when I could afford to buy craft bits from America, I thought I could put one in a bottle with some snow and a label that says “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” with a snowflake charm on the outside. The tree is going to be fiddly to stand up and fix in the bottle, but I think the Merry Go Round will work, again attached to an eye pin with a layer of fine, green glitter in the bottom of the bottle.

Sadly, the snowman charm was too wide for the bottle, he really belongs inside, with the snowflake on the outside, he also doesn't lie flat against the bottle which niggles me.  I just need to find a narrower version for next year.

I am also thinking a red heart, with red glitter and a red bead for Valentines day and rabbits for Easter, again I just need to measure a little more carefully to ensure they all fit inside the bottles before I make any more considered purchases.