Having cold worked a bottle for one of my assignments, I thought it looked a little too plain…so I decided to make a paper and wire flower to go inside it.
The flower stalk runs up through the bottle and flower heads
poke out through both sides and the top.
There are also leaves which can just be made out through the
frosted bottle.
I seem to manage to collect all sorts of glass - glass fascinates me and if I see a nice coloured bottle or an interesting shape I can never bring myself to put it in the recycling. Because of this habit I have amassed quite a collection.
Some I make into pretty lamps, others I melt and make abstract shapes from.
For my sustainability assignment I have decided to try and make a clock out of mini wine bottles.
I had a box of these mini Mateus Rose bottles, just because they are such a pleasing shape, so thought it was a good time to make them into something new.
So, time for a good scrub. It took a pan scourer and a teaspoon to scrape all the lables off, and I had to cut off the little wire ring around the neck. Neither of these would have been good in the kiln.
When they were all nice and clean I put the bottles in the kitchen oven to make sure they well and truly dried out. My kiln is a glass kiln which wouldn't take too kindly to the presence of moisture within it.
I laid them all out, making sure none of them were touching, then programmed the kiln to do an overnight fusing fire.
In the morning I opened the kiln lid to find a set of lovely flat little bottles. Result!
