Drinking my way to more crafts

So my boyfriend decided the other day to try a new beer. Bud Light Platinum boasts being triple filtered with a smooth finish and having a 'top shelf taste'. Well I could care less about all that junk. Don't get me wrong, I'm a beer girl. Cant stand wine.  But the reason I bring this up is because after having drank before mentioned beer, we set our empty bottle on the counter and went to bed. While I wish I could report I awoke to small cleaning fairies coming out of the bottles and cleaning my kitchen and making breakfast, something else slightly less wonderful happened. As I rounded the corner to my kitchen the sun happened to be streaming in through the window and hitting the beauty that is these glorious cobalt blue bottles.

 It was like seeing them with new eyes. My little crafter's heart screamed out "I must use these!" I promptly washed them and removed the labels, and set them in my kitchen window... Where they sat for a month. What?!  Iv been busy! and I wasn't quite sure what I even wanted to do with them. I thought about breaking them and using the glass for something. I also thought about cutting them and using them as candle holders (which may still be the fate of a chosen few).  But neither ideas seemed to fit my life right now. I need a fast, simple, nap time craft.  I want a craft that can be completed in the time it takes for my beautify little girl to take a nap.

So I have my inspiration. Without a clue what to do with them. As pretty as they are I didn't really want them to scream "I'm a beer bottle" at me every time I looked at them. I also happened to have a wine bottle (not sure how or why). I clustered this all together and...TA DA!

Pretty great right?!  You dont have to lie, its far from great.  Technically it could even be called trash. But it will be great. I promise. It just needs a little...something.  I dug through my mountain of crafting supplies for my trusty glue gun and some twine, called a friend over with some bottles of her own and we got to work.

I started at the top of my wine bottle and glued the twine around the bottle so it was fully covered.  I recommend using a lot of glue at the start so its secured good.  As you go you can use just a dot or two of glue after every 3-4 wraps around the bottle. Then use more glue again towards the bottom to make sure it wont come undone there too. After covering my wine bottle I realized I needed another bottle of a different size/shape to cover in twine.  Off to the Man Cave I go to see what I can find. Hmmm, beer while crafting? Don't mind if I do.  After drinking and cleaning the bottle ( I don't bother to remove the label since it will be covered anyway) I continue the same process as with the wine bottle.


Finally a cluster them all together, tie them with some more twine and, TA DA! Ok, NOW their pretty. :-)

Time needed for this craft? about 45 minutes.