Playing With My Marbles
Things You Need
- Wine Bottle
- Marbles
- Craft Christmas Lights, green wire, 20-35 lights
- Hot Glue Gun
- Raffia
- Silk Grape Leaves, with curly stems
- Glass & Tile Drill Bit, I used 5/8" Glass & Tile Drill Quad Tip
- Drill
- Fine Grit Sandpaper, I used 220
- Safety Glasses & Leather Gloves
Process
- When cutting the foil top off, do it evenly and without tearing it, save it.
- Uncork and drink the wine, then rinse bottle out.
- Drill hole in back of bottle.I used 5/8" glass & tile quad tip drill bit, WD40, safety goggles, and leather gloves.
- Sand the edges of the drilled hole, clean, rinse and let bottle dry.
- Feed lights thru hole and thru top of bottle, then start adjusting the lights evenly. Turn them on to make sure it looks good.
- Glue marbles on bottle.
- Glue grape leaves and curly stems on bottle. Just put glue on the end and place the stem in between marbles, hold until dry.
- Poke hole in top of wine cork, stick curly stem in, can dap glue in hole.
- Glue other end of cork curly stem to bottle where raffia will be.
- Wrap raffia around bottle neck, and tie raffia off and place a dap of glue on knot.
- Dap a little glue on bottle top and replace foil top.
- Personalize the back label
- There are so many ways to drill a hole in glass bottles, check out YouTube for videos.
