I can not afford a piece of Dale Chihuly's glass art; so I have to settle for "poor man's glass"....wine bottles, beer bottles, liquer bottles, Hobby Lobby glass (but only when they are 50% off).
@lfin: "Curious minds want to know"........I wish I would have thought to say that!!! I am "curious" about the "hot sugar" idea.
I am going to a glass blowing demonstration at the Toledo Museum of Art on Saturday. I also signed up to make my own glass blown heart. If I like this mini workshop, I might sign up for a class.
@Liz: on Food Network, you see the cake decorating challenges, they also have sugar art challenges. They take HOT sugar (Sugar and water boiled I think) and they take a ball of it and then put a pipe into it and blow air in it to make it form bottles or other shapes. Reminds me of that tube of plastic gook we had as kids where we took a blob, stuck a straw in it and blew in it to make a ball. I'll have to let you know when a show is coming.
@lfin: We have a little competition going with some close friends in our garden club on who can find the most unusual bottles. One friend put a blue "violin" bottle that she already had in her garden. I was planning "an English garden party" shower and was looking for old teacups and saucers in an antique shop and stumbled on the blue "violin" in my picture. It's really not a violin though, they called it something else at the antique shop. I'll have to research that because I don't remember...no musical abilities! ...........3 of us have bottle gardens so far...........and they all look different!
An interesting website to learn a little about "bottle trees" and also see many examples of "bottle trees" is www.felderrushing.net/BottleTreeImages....htm. After I put mine up, I had heard from a friend that blue bottles catch the evil spirits during the night and when the sun shines on the bottles during the day, it kills the evil spirits inside of the blue bottles....just a little folklore tidbit.
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