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Kitchen Night Light – Trash to Treasure Decorating has a great idea of making a table top lamp without drilling or cutting. Just insert the string of Christmas lights from the top, embellish the bottle with some cascading fake grapes and leaves to cover the wire and that’s it! She also has a cool idea of frosting the bottle with reverse stenciled snowflakes. No fancy tools necessary!
[Photo used with permission by Trash to Treasure Decorating]
Which wine bottle idea are you going to try?
About Karen LeeKaren lives a simple, frugal, green life and shares her eco tips and news on ecokaren. She leads Eco Etsy Team, an awesome group of enthusiastic green business owners on Etsy. She sells green goodies in her Etsy shop and writes for various green blogs. When she's not leading the team or blogging, she is a chauffeur to two greenagers, wife to an accidental recycler, master chef to hungry locavores, seamstress, knitter, and dumpster diver, not necessarily in that order.
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Hi there! I'm Becky Striepe, a green crafter and vegan foodie living in Atlanta, Georgia with my husband and two cats. My mission is to make eco-friendly crafts and vegan food accessible to anyone who wants to give them a go.
Hello! My name is Bonnie Getchell and overall, I'm a craft nerd! I love making crafts, re-doing furniture, and anything along those lines. I especially love creating items that are from recycled materials like toilet paper rolls, bottles, etc.
I'm the lucky momma of two little blonde daddy-clones--we spend our days doing elaborate art projects, trashing the house, eating cheese cubes and oranges, and waiting for my partner to get home from his day job so we can pester him.
Kelly covers visual arts in and around Washington, DC for DCist and is editor of Crafting a Green World. Kelly has also been published by Bust Magazine and you can find her byline at Indie Fixx and Etsy’s Storque and has taught in Etsy’s virtual lab on the topic of green crafting.
If you want a way more exciting way of cutting the glass use nail polish remover, thin cotton string, a lighter and a cold bowl of water >D