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.
