Crafts: Family Photos in a Bottle
Multiple glass containers in varying sizes and/or colors, with an assortment of your favorite photos and pictures tucked inside, make a great visual statement on a mantle, bedside table, or shelf.
Use family shots, flower designs, prints of paintings–anything that’ll show off your own personal style.
You’ll need:
glass bottle or jar
glass cleaner
photocopy of a photograph or print
scissors
two wooden skewers
1. Choose an attractive glass bottle or jar, whether new or antique (the larger the neck or the mouth the better). Clean it and dry it thoroughly. (Polident denture solution works great for getting old glassware clean.)
2. Make a color or black-and-white photocopy of your picture on regular copier paper. The copy should be small enough (in length and width) to fit unrolled inside the glass container. Trim excess paper if necessary.
3. Wrap the photocopy, blank side showing, around one of the wooden skewers and roll it into a tight cylinder.
4. Slide the photocopy cylinder off the skewer and slip it, right side up, through the bottle’s neck (or the jar’s mouth).
5. Insert both skewers down through the neck (or mouth).
6. Working from the blank side (to avoid damaging the print), use the skewers to unroll the cylinder until it’s flat inside the bottle or jar. Pressing toward the front of the container from the back of the photocopy works best.
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This is INCREDIBLE!!! I will surely be using this idea in my 1895 Queen Anne Victorian home. AND what great gifts this will be for my fellow East Enders on Galveston Island! They will LOVE it! Thanks for sharing this great idea!
I love this idea. I plan to use a wedding picture of my niece and nephew and fill it with beach sand from the beach next to the restaurant where they had their reception. It’ll be a great anniversary present.
It feels and looks a little creepy to me, makes me feel uncomfortable. They look like ghosts encapsulated in a bottle.
I agree with Susan.
I (as ANOTHER Susan….) think this is a fabulous idea! I would also suggest it might make a lovely arrangement with photos of wildflowers, or birds, or butterflies, or old trains, or whatever it is that captures your fancy…. it’s an interesting and creative way to display photos – old or new! Thank you for sharing this artistic idea!
Quirky, but cool!
love this…and how about using the bottle on its side with a picture of a ship in it? a modern take on a ship in a bottle, just need something to keep the bottle from rolling