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Crafts: Family Photos in a Bottle
Display favorite prints, photos
by Terry John Woods
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.
7. Leave the top of your bottle or jar open if you like, or finish with a cork or clean metal cap.
Reader Comments
Comment from Kathy Bass on August 12, 2009
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!
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