Welcome to my ramblings & beautiful jewelry. My Etsy store is a place to shop for vintage, nostalgic button bracelets, repurposed vintage jewelry, and found objects; bits of abandoned history brought back into everyday life, along with contemporary styles using gemstones, sterling & goldfill. I love asymmetrical and one-of-a-kind pieces, which have such character!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
So I had this great idea...since I have buttons coming out of my ears, I decided to display them in my empty Frappuccino bottles. Really, they could be used for anything; beads, jewelry findings, sewing notions, even loose change! The possibilities are endless. I wanted a LOT of Frappuccino bottles, so I enlisted s few friends with a similar addiction to help me collect them. Soon enough I had Frappuccino bottles coming out my ears! Hubby says he's gonna blog me if I get anymore, lol! He's so funny :)
First I washed them in hot, soapy water with a little bleach cleaner poured in. This step is important because you want to kill any bacteria that can make your buttons smell like rotten milk. I know because I have some. They stink! At first I didn't use bleach; in my haste to make this great button display I cleaned with soapy water, dried and added buttons. Later when I opened one to use the buttons, a horrible plastic/rotten milk stench came out! Whew! Needless to say, those first ones have to be re-cleaned and hopefully airing out the buttons will take away the smell. One of my friends rinsed the bottles they collected, keeping the lids off, and the other friend didn't. By the time I got around to cleaning my huge stash of bottles out, I was very happy with my friend that rinsed them for me!
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