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JIMT Idea: Bottle Caps

One Christmas when I was a student at Texas A&M I was trying to figure out what to give my friends as gifts.  Being a poor college student I had to come up with something inexpensive so I ventured upon a DIY project that involved materials I had access to, while also being appropriate for my comprades.  The result was a picture frame with beer bottle caps glued to the frame.  This is a true story… I can remember hanging out at a little burger & beer place during the entire Christmas break eating fries, drinking cold ones, listening to the juke box & collecting bottle caps.  Ahhh, the good ol’ days.

Bottle Cap Frame
Recycled Bottle Cap Photo Frame from La Bella Vita
{NOTE: my bottle cap frames weren’t nearly this cool!!}

 Turns out I was onto something because now Bottle Cap art has taken on a life of it’s own.  Each little bottle cap {ESPECIALLY the old ones!!} are like teeny-tiny graphic masterpieces ~ collections of the marketing history of our country.  By rescuing the bottle caps from a land fill, molding them into something new, and working with their colors and designs you are breathing new life into something could have been discarded and left for nothing.

I’ve included a few examples of what the ingenious types in the world of UPCYCLED ART are creating with bottle caps.

{Upcycling is “The practice of taking something that is disposable and transforming it into something of greater use and value” From the book Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart.}

Bottlecap Necklace
Bottlecap Necklace from Kotik-Design

 

Bottle Cap Mosaic Table
Bottle Cap Mosaic Table from BottleCapArtWork.com

 

Bottle Cap Mirror
Bottle Cap Mirror from Around The Bend

 

Vintage Sculpture Arrows & Signs
Vintage Sculpture Arrows & Signs

 

Bottle Cap Embellishments
Bottle Cap Embellishment on shelves holding a bottle collection.  This comes from Jim Healy Junk Architect and was featured on JunkMarketStyle.com.

Recycle * Repurpose * RE~LOVE

This idea will be featured this morning on the Junk in my Trunk Radio Show {JIMT} which airs every Monday, Thursday & Saturday from 10am till 11am on Kansas City’s 1140am KCXL & 1160am KCTO. You can also LISTEN LIVE on the Internet… visit JunkMafia.com and click on the Little Red Radio at the bottom of the page.

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