This has to be one of the easiest apothecary bottles you can make. You need the following items:
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Monday, 12 October 2015
October 12th 2015 - Frankenstein repair kit
Following on from previous Halloween posts and apothecary bottles I have spent today making a Frankenstein repair kit.
This has to be one of the easiest apothecary bottles you can make. You need the following items:
An empty spice bottle.
An assortment of screws, nails, bolts, pieces of wire, springs etc.
Combine them together and seal the lid to itself and then to the jar with a strong glue like UHU. Allow to dry. Then you can add a label that says:
And you have your finished frankenstein repair kit in a bottle ready to add to your apothecary shelf.
This has to be one of the easiest apothecary bottles you can make. You need the following items:
Sunday, 13 September 2015
September 13th 2015 - Potion bottles
September 13th 2015 - Potion bottles
It's not that long until Halloween now. At the beginning of the year I started making some potion bottles for my friend. I had loads more empty bottles to use but just hadn't got round to doing them. I have spent today making some more bottles and finishing off a few of the others.
I'm really pleased with how they are looking, once they are dry they will be moved up to the box in the loft with the rest as i'm not sure if halloween is happening at my house or my friends where it is meant to be.
All bottles and jars have had medicine, herbs, air freshner or something in and have not been bought to use.
It's not that long until Halloween now. At the beginning of the year I started making some potion bottles for my friend. I had loads more empty bottles to use but just hadn't got round to doing them. I have spent today making some more bottles and finishing off a few of the others.
I'm really pleased with how they are looking, once they are dry they will be moved up to the box in the loft with the rest as i'm not sure if halloween is happening at my house or my friends where it is meant to be.
All bottles and jars have had medicine, herbs, air freshner or something in and have not been bought to use.
Saturday, 7 February 2015
February 7th 2015 - Halloween apothecary labels
February 7th 2015 - Halloween apothecary labels
Today my new ink arrived for the printer so I can now get on and print the apothecary labels similar to these (and various others I have on pinterest).
These are going on the bottles and jars that I have been saving to make halloween bottles/jars for a witches shelf for one of my best friends as she fell in love with mine last year at halloween and asked me to make her some.
Here's some of my bottles from last year, I can't find the picture of them on the shelf:
They have all been handmade by myself, most are from old food jars and medicine bottles. The contents vary from things I have had in the craft box (feather shaped sequins) to shop bought items (the grow your own brain). The labels were all found on the internet and edited to how I wanted them. In total I have about 30 different jars/bottles on my shelf and where I am making a set for my friend and have had new ideas I will be adding to mine as well. Once the contents are in the jar either dry or with coloured water/hair gel/hand gel/baby oil etc they are sealed with a hot glue gun to avoid them being opened by "little people".
Some of the new jars I am making include leprechauns gold (gold cake decorating icing balls) and ground unicorn horn (silver sparkly cake icing dust) and I have white glittery clay to make an actual unicorns horn.
There are many ideas on the internt for making apothecary jars, some are very simple others not so. But the only limits are your imigination and purse. I've had great fun in making those that I already have and i'm I sure I will enjoy making more.
I plan to actually make a "life-size" witch to be sat with her potions over a couldron, she will be made from a £1 shop painters suit (stuffed) and then dressed in a witches outfit (including tights and hopefully shoes) and a witches mask. This will be a depending on time make but as i'm not at home this year for halloween its not urgent.
A few of my new labels to go on bottles. Please feel free to copy them.
Today my new ink arrived for the printer so I can now get on and print the apothecary labels similar to these (and various others I have on pinterest).
These are going on the bottles and jars that I have been saving to make halloween bottles/jars for a witches shelf for one of my best friends as she fell in love with mine last year at halloween and asked me to make her some.
Here's some of my bottles from last year, I can't find the picture of them on the shelf:
They have all been handmade by myself, most are from old food jars and medicine bottles. The contents vary from things I have had in the craft box (feather shaped sequins) to shop bought items (the grow your own brain). The labels were all found on the internet and edited to how I wanted them. In total I have about 30 different jars/bottles on my shelf and where I am making a set for my friend and have had new ideas I will be adding to mine as well. Once the contents are in the jar either dry or with coloured water/hair gel/hand gel/baby oil etc they are sealed with a hot glue gun to avoid them being opened by "little people".
Some of the new jars I am making include leprechauns gold (gold cake decorating icing balls) and ground unicorn horn (silver sparkly cake icing dust) and I have white glittery clay to make an actual unicorns horn.
There are many ideas on the internt for making apothecary jars, some are very simple others not so. But the only limits are your imigination and purse. I've had great fun in making those that I already have and i'm I sure I will enjoy making more.
I plan to actually make a "life-size" witch to be sat with her potions over a couldron, she will be made from a £1 shop painters suit (stuffed) and then dressed in a witches outfit (including tights and hopefully shoes) and a witches mask. This will be a depending on time make but as i'm not at home this year for halloween its not urgent.
A few of my new labels to go on bottles. Please feel free to copy them.
Friday, 30 January 2015
January 30th 2015 - how to remove bits from a perfume bottle
January 30th 2015 - how to remove bits from a perfume bottle
Following onfrom the halloween book yesterday I am also in the process of making some new potion bottles for myself and a friend who wants some. I won some lovely crystal shaped bottles on ebay last week that I thought would be great to add to the shelf of potions.
They arrived today and although listed as small are bit bigger than I thouht they were but thats not a problem. The problem however was they were spray bottles not open top ones and the bit the spray fits into is fixed to the glass bottle not screw on like the newer style bottles are.
So I set about finding a new pin for today on how to remove the spray bit from old perfume bottles. Well as you can see I found one. Unfortunately the tutorial and actually doing it dont fully work together. I was unable to get the scissors under the outer part like it says and we still couldn't remove the middle easily, so I attacked it with my dremmel craft tool and a drill bit. This was fine except the spay tube and everything else ended up inside the bottle. Here's where I handed to the hubby and said fix! Luckily hubby managed to get the bits off we needed off and the plastic stopper out of the neck of the bottle and pull the insides out.
The bottles are now ready to be washed and have new contents in, but in order for the bottles to be air tight and not leak I have got to go to wilkinsons and buy some small corks to glue in as stoppers. I think that I am going to have to cut the corks down too fit as the hole is about 0.5-1cm across.
Following onfrom the halloween book yesterday I am also in the process of making some new potion bottles for myself and a friend who wants some. I won some lovely crystal shaped bottles on ebay last week that I thought would be great to add to the shelf of potions.
They arrived today and although listed as small are bit bigger than I thouht they were but thats not a problem. The problem however was they were spray bottles not open top ones and the bit the spray fits into is fixed to the glass bottle not screw on like the newer style bottles are.
So I set about finding a new pin for today on how to remove the spray bit from old perfume bottles. Well as you can see I found one. Unfortunately the tutorial and actually doing it dont fully work together. I was unable to get the scissors under the outer part like it says and we still couldn't remove the middle easily, so I attacked it with my dremmel craft tool and a drill bit. This was fine except the spay tube and everything else ended up inside the bottle. Here's where I handed to the hubby and said fix! Luckily hubby managed to get the bits off we needed off and the plastic stopper out of the neck of the bottle and pull the insides out.
The bottles are now ready to be washed and have new contents in, but in order for the bottles to be air tight and not leak I have got to go to wilkinsons and buy some small corks to glue in as stoppers. I think that I am going to have to cut the corks down too fit as the hole is about 0.5-1cm across.
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