BOTTLED UP!

It started me up again--I saw someone carrying a blue bottle of Sparkling Water!  Would you save that for me when it's empty?  Sure no problem--and so I received two bottles when I saw them a week later!  (The glass is still wet in this photo.)

I smashed it in a heavy clear bag to get the size pieces I like.  I haven't done any Tumbling in a year but glass is easy and only takes a week!  And this is how it ended up--the light blue glass at the bottom of the strainer;  the glass at the top are odd bits of glass I added to make it a full barrel. The glass is completely dry here for its final frosty beauty!  How cool is that?!

When I break the glass bottles, I try to save the  bottoms intact; it doesn't always happen but it's great when it does because they make great wind chimes!  I also try to save the neck and this one turned out perfectly!  The turquoise glass at the top is a piece I found in our yard--after heavy rains, we often find pieces of glass that have worked their way up to the surface once again!  (we have found many garbage pits buried here, which was a very common way to dispose of 'trash'!)