Though definitely meant for decorative and not daily use, I think that these DIY blue glass jars look just as striking as their more expensive antique counterparts. Head over to the Mason Blue Glass Canning Jar DIY tutorial on Craftberry Bush to learn how to make your own set!
With a bottle cutting jig, you can easily recycle your used glass bottles into reusable drinking glasses or flower vases. After scoring the glass with the jig, there are a few different ways to make a clean break. In this video, I show how to do this using a candle flame and a piece of […]
Fans of Patrick McGoohanโs classic BBC spy series ‘The Prisoner’ will recognize this gimmick from Episode 15, โThe Girl Who Was Death.โ It’s a pint glass with words etched on the bottom (in authentic โVillageโ font) that appear line-by-line as the liquid is imbibed. My version is the closest reproduction of the original I could achieve.
Rich Faulhaber wanted enough sand-polished “beach glass” or “sea glass” (Wikipedia) to cover a walkway, and didn’t want to spend the rest of his life combing beaches for it. So he figured out how to make his own knock-off version. [via Boing Boing]
The listing also claims that “the tallest piece measures 3″,” which, unless an oversize penny is actually part of the set, seems like a slight exaggeration. Majorl awesomesauce, anyway. ]via Neatorama]
One of our most-trafficked original tutorials over the past couple of years has been this simple trick for etching designs on glass bottles by using the label itself as a stencil. It’s a quick, satisfying, inexpensive project that yields long-lasting results with common equipment. In the process of porting the original blog post to our new Make: Projects platform, I took the opportunity to revisit the idea, updating the old images and adding a couple of helpful details, all of which was refreshingly easy using the new interface. Check it out.
Not to be confused with this Lego ship in a Lego bottle. Something very like this stunt has actually been on my personal to-do list for about six months now (well, I was gonna build a Lego spaceship in a glass bottle), but I kept putting it off. “Jeremy Moody built the first Lego ship inside a bottle!” is the headline over at Brothers Brick. Oh, that stings! [Thanks, Rachel!]
