January 16th 2015 - Plastic Bottle flower vase

January 16th 2015 - Plastic Bottle flower vase

I saw this tutorial on pinterest of how to make a flower vase from a plastic bottle  it didn't look that hard but looked really effective.  Now I don't get flowers very often as Hubby doesn't me them, so this was 1 of those pins that would probably sit forever on my board.

That was until the neighbour came round with a bunch of tulips for me as an appology for not removing her food from my freezer (had bits since christmas as  she had no room).  Its not a problem and its not in my way.  Well the tulips spent 2 nights in a jug until I found this pin.

Here's the pics:

the plastic bottle with the top cut off and slits in it

the bottle with slits now opened out

the finished thing

the finished thing

with flowers in it

It's worked of sorts.  Mine hasn't got as big a frill/lip/rim as the 1 in tutorial and it doesn't lay flat like tutorial.  Plus some of the strips that you weave have already popped back out.  So not sure if my stipe were long enough or what but I can say I tried and it didn't work brilliantly!!!