2/20/2010

Plastic Bottle Flowers

Catching Fireflies and Grace Violet both posted about Anthropology's Spring window displays:



The flowers are made of plastic bottles cut and painted to look like flowers.  Which got me Googleing...

I found a ton of pictures on Flickr:



And I found their newsletter with a quick how to:


I think I need to start buying things that come in plastic bottles!

6 comments:

  1. those are so cute! I want to make them!

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  2. wow, cool idea! I think I will try it out:)

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  3. That's so impressive that they made those out of "garbage!"

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  4. I got that email too! I as well went to the store and took a picture. I am a teacher and will be making these with my students for Spring Decor in our classroom.

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  5. You make every thing look so easy but I know with out trying it is not!

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  6. My sister spotted something like this last Christmas in Vancouver (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5104867&id=681927673#!/photo.php?pid=5104867&id=681927673&fbid=279720887673) I sooo hope you can access the link. They're cut similarily but from the bottle tops, melted to curl like lilies, and then Christmas lights popped through the centre!

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