I’m thinking of making two dolls out of these old bottles. The bottles have a story (doesn’t everything?) and believe it or not they also have a bit of sentimentality attached to them. When my husband and I had our first child my in-laws emptied out their liquor cabinet donating pretty much all the different liquor that they had accumulated over the years to us. They thought that since we were young we would be hosting many parties, starting with our oldest child’s christening party, and could use up everything that they had been keeping. Well, neither my husband nor I are the party- throwing type so after two more christening parties we ended up putting everything into our hutch. Time passes...more time passes.....30 years pass/ including three moves in which I packed and unpacked everything! Eventually I decide to move the hutch, so I empty everything out of it and put all this donated liquor on a book case outside on our screened porch with every intention of moving it back into the hutch once I had finished. Of course I never do bring it back inside, so for the past three years we have kept an assortment of alcohol outside through winter low temperatures well below zero and sizzling summer days well above 100 and pretty much everything in-between. Now, I would never serve any of this to anyone fearing it could be lethal. The fact that my husband doesn’t drink at all and I will only have a glass of wine makes me wonder why we have not disposed of this stuff years ago... I think it reminds us of our parents...hence, the sentimentality. The fact that my in-laws had all this stuff originally when they didn’t really drink either only adds to the craziness. So, now I am determined to turn at least two of the bottles into something pretty. I like the color of these two bottles and that they are different shapes. I’m not sure how I will transform them but I do know I want most of the bottle to show- I like the labels and I like the fact that the labels are showing their age. I started by emptying and washing them. I also removed the labels around the top perhaps to use later as part of a headpiece. The bandy bottle has a screw on top (which includes a faded price tag of $3.49) which I will put back on, the wine bottle was corked so I glued a cardboard circle to encase the top. Next step will be to apoxy a wood dowel to the tops to act as a neck armature and support for the head and figure out a way to attach arms. I do love the creative process!
