It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Today: Wine bottle bottoms made into small dishes. (via BaysideWireDesigns on Etsy)
For earlier posts in the Unconsumption wine o’clock series, see the archive here.
Cheers!
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Today: Embroidered cork pieces. A tutorial by Maya Kuzman — here, on the Etsy Blog — provides tips for stitching without breaking the cork, and includes information on stitching together pieces to wear as jewelry.
I like the idea of making some for decorative purposes — maybe placing them in a small bowl on a table. Other ideas for uses: magnets could be glued on to several embroidered pieces, or you could attach pieces to the ends of ceiling fan pull chains or window blinds’ cords. What would you do with them?
For earlier finds, check out Unconsumption’s “wine o’clock” series of posts here.
(spotted on CRAFT’s Craftzine blog)
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A New Way to Drink Wine: Try This Four-Pack Stack of Chardonnay
Musing on a favorite pastime, James Michener once declared that “to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do,” concluding that “picnics are the apex of sensible living.” It’s a mantra I’ve taken to heart, “for of this world one never sees enough.” My habit is to bring a bottle of wine, uncivilized prohibitions against imbibing it outdoors be damned. Usually I take a wine key too, but being a forgetful sort, I’ve had occasion to force corks down the necks of bottles with objects as varied as a cheap plastic pen, splintery driftwood, a friend’s lipstick container, and the curved metal protruding from a u-lock. This lifestyle hassle puts me squarely in the target demographic of Stacked Wines, a new company that’s offering a variation on the traditional wine bottle and betting that their container is going to be competitive with or surpass in popularity the box-enclosed plastic bladder, the Tetra Pak, the Wine Cube, and the PET bottle.
Read more. [Image: Stacked Wines]
Wine packaged in single-serving, single-use, disposable plastic containers. Something else to contribute to our already high levels of plastic pollution, methinks. As much as I like wine, I’m pretty sure I would not be tempted to buy wine “bottled” like this. What about you?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22lejgamL1qcokc4o1_400.jpg)
A New Way to Drink Wine: Try This Four-Pack Stack of Chardonnay
Musing on a favorite pastime, James Michener once declared that “to dine in harmony with nature is one of the gentlest and loveliest things we can do,” concluding that “picnics are the apex of sensible living.” It’s a mantra I’ve taken to heart, “for of this world one never sees enough.” My habit is to bring a bottle of wine, uncivilized prohibitions against imbibing it outdoors be damned. Usually I take a wine key too, but being a forgetful sort, I’ve had occasion to force corks down the necks of bottles with objects as varied as a cheap plastic pen, splintery driftwood, a friend’s lipstick container, and the curved metal protruding from a u-lock.
This lifestyle hassle puts me squarely in the target demographic of Stacked Wines, a new company that’s offering a variation on the traditional wine bottle and betting that their container is going to be competitive with or surpass in popularity the box-enclosed plastic bladder, the Tetra Pak, the Wine Cube, and the PET bottle.Read more. [Image: Stacked Wines]
Wine packaged in single-serving, single-use, disposable plastic containers. Something else to contribute to our already high levels of plastic pollution, methinks. As much as I like wine, I’m pretty sure I would not be tempted to buy wine “bottled” like this. What about you?
Hardly ever are wine bottles recycled creatively, they either become candleholders caked with wax, vases or tap water centerpieces at restaurants. As an alternative to the norm, Pure-Bottle repurposed and transformed wine bottles into three wonderful ways most will find useful. Lucirmás, a Barcelona-based studio, designed each Pure-Bottle, which is cut with precision to create a lantern, glass, and spoon.
Well, we take issue with the sentiment that there’s not much clever reuse around wine bottles and other physical elements associated with wine. If you believe that, merely scanning the items on this site specifically tagged with It’s Wine O’Clock Somewhere will be an eye-opener.
A Wine Bottle That Can Be Recycled Into Three Useful Objects @PSFK
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere!) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Wind chimes made from wine bottles. (via LoraLinn on Etsy)
For earlier finds, check out Unconsumption’s “wine o’clock” series of posts here.
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
A chair made from wine bottles. (It was featured in a previous Unconsumption post on chairs made from packaging here; spotted on Box Vox.)
For earlier finds, see the Unconsumption “wine o’clock” series of posts here.
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Small serving bowls, made by Maria Bang Espersen, who carefully cuts, grinds, and sandblasts wine bottles to make the curved pieces.
For earlier finds, see the Unconsumption “wine o’clock” series of posts here.
Cheers!
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Today, it’s corks used as baseboard molding. (via urban farmhouse)
For earlier finds, scroll through the Unconsumption “wine o’clock” series of posts here.
Portuguese designer Tó Martins makes lamps from old washing machine drums and camera tripods. He covers the drum shades in a variety of materials, including corks and measuring tapes (all of which look new; wouldn’t it be great if used items were applied to the drums?). (via Rewash Lamp | Design Milk)
If you missed the washing machine drum lamps we featured previously (here), check them out. The metal drums are left uncovered so light is able to shine through the perforations — a nice contrast to the lamps pictured above.
Note: Since this post includes a new use for corks, I’m counting it as a “wine o’clock” post!
DIY projects — repurposing trophies
This morning, while looking at Cathe Holden’s latest post on her Just Something I Made blog, in which Cathe explains how she made cupcake stands using parts of old trophies (go ahead and take a couple of minutes to check out Cathe’s great tutorial and photos; I’ll wait), these bottle stoppers caught my eye, as wine-related repurposing often does. (Exhibit A: See the Unconsumption series of “wine o’clock” posts here.)
Shannon Vance and Robin Sweeney of Stash Style made the stoppers from new corks, but I think some used wine corks could work for this.
How-to / DIY:
If you’re using a new cork, drill a 1/8-inch-wide hole halfway down the cork. (Used corks will already have a corkscrew-made hole in them, obviously.) Apply superglue to both the underside of the base of a trophy’s top and the screw that extends from it. Insert the screw into the cork, and twist together the trophy top and cork until flush and a tight bond forms. Allow to dry before using.
Want another trophy repurposing idea? Use old trophies as wall hooks (previously mentioned on Unconsumption here).
It’s wine o’clock (somewhere) — which means it’s time to share a wine-related repurposing find:
Today: A wine barrel repurposed as a dog house. This could be a DIY project for many of you. (via Sunset.com)
For earlier finds, scroll through the Unconsumption “wine o’clock” series of posts here.
