In the middle of November I got a call out of the blue from a friend asking if I was making any Christmas bottles tree decorations, well, to be honest, at the time, the answer was no. In the summer Marc and I did work on some bottles with snowmen inside, but I had used air drying paper clay and had coloured their hats in with felt pen and over time the colour had bleed into the clay and ever the perfectionist, I wasn’t happy with them, so they were put on the back burner having decided to re-make said snowmen again in Fimo but making the hats separately, but that’s for 2021 now.
Anyway, I got to thinking, I had the time and more than enough flipping bottles, so why not, it’s been a good few years since I’d made them and soon my mind was racing and my craft drawers plundered.
Looking back at the original bottles (above) they were perhaps a little crude. So this time round I have made two different versions, putting white, iridescent snow flake stuff and tiny weeny silver stars inside and on the cork a silver bead spacer, pearl bead and a tiny, silver eye screw for the hanging thread.
I had to order some silver metal snow flake and hollow star charms to tie round the neck of the bottles the ones I had already had were a little too big and clunky. I hated all the fiddly tying business, my sausage fingers just get in the way!
Using Publisher on my computer I then made slight changes to the tiny labels, which thank goodness I had kept the original template for, which meant that I didn’t have to fiddle fart around trying to get the text box and font size right. The labels said Let It Snow and Wish Upon A Star and were duly cut out and stuck on the bottles.
And, that’s about it, but with my interest in tiny Christmas bottles newly awoken …….
I have a couple more ideas, whether I can get them done before Christmas waits to be seen, but watch this space!