Making Pretty Glass Bottle Arrangements

I don't know about you but I love to make pretty arrangements out of ordinary things. This past summer

while I was home convalescing from my ailments, I decided to try some simple projects but I just never got around to posting them on my blog.

One of them was making small pretty arrangements out of Starbucks painted bottles.

Now, I don't drink coffee, but here's where freecycle.org came in handy: I simply put out a request for someone who drinks those Starbucks frappuccinos to save the empty glass bottles for me and I'd be glad to pick them up. 

Well a sweet lady emailed me saying she had a big box of them for me :)

So here's what you'll need:

*Several of those Starbucks frap glass bottles or any pretty shapped glass bottles

*any type of paint (I used plain white latex paint)

*ribbon and any other embellishments

*fresh or silk flowers

First I took all my bottles and soaked them overnight in warm, soapy water to remove all traces of the coffee and to soften the labels. I did this in my kitchen sink.

The next morning I peeled off all the labels and scrubbed off any adhesive residue left over.

Don't worry too much about the residue because you can cover it up later.

I dried them inside and out with a dishcloth and then let them air dry for several hours.

After they were dry, I simply put down several pieces of newspaper and got a plastic cup and poured some paint (french white) into it. 

I then poured a little bit into each dry glass bottle and swirled it around very well, taking care to coat the entire inside of the bottle. I turned it upside down over the plastic cup to drip down any left over paint back into the cup and tap, tap, tap to make sure there are no drips.

Set your glass bottle aside to dry.

Repeat with remaining bottles.

After you are all done and they are completely dry, I let them dry all day then you can decorate them :)

Aren't they cute even like this?

I simply took some lace ribbon, some silk flowers, and some ribbon and other embellishments and hot glued them on the bottles. You can even put real flowers in them I just didn't have them on hand. Can you picture these as table markers at a wedding with a cute little chalkboard tag on them?

Or on a bed side table with real flowers in a guest room on a pretty silver tray?

So many uses for these pretty glass bottles.

I had so much fun painting these I also made some chalkboard ones.

Except I spray painted the outside of them so I can write on them over and over again! I'll have to show you those next time ;)

So many cool uses for these little glass bottles.

I am planning on getting more from this lady and just washing them and wrapping some cute labels on the outside filling them with milk, and sticking colorful striped straws and having a milk and cookies party for my kids!

What kind of uses can you think of for these fun little bottles? 






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