My lovely husband braved the sidelong looks and smuggled an empty 330ml Ty-Nant water bottle out of a restaurant for me a while back, and since then it has been sitting on the shelf looking so lovely and blue, waiting for me to do something with it. This week, I did.
The bottle is interesting because it is not, as I expected it to be, blue glass, but clear glass with with a blue enamel coating. Which means that, with a lot of patience, I could sandblast the blue away altogether to get a two-tone effect (I have to admit I stopped where I did because I ran out of patience, but I think it's enough!). And the result is just so much better than I thought it could be.
I do have several of the larger 750ml size bottles which have been collected for me waiting to be played with; they appear to be blue right through; we shall see. I'd love to have more of these little ones to work with but at the moment I am resisting popping over to Wales just to stock up... buying such small bottles of sparkling water really is a bit of an extravagance... isn't it?
That is beautiful, what a great effect!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if you could see if there are any local restaurants that serve it and see if they'd be willing to save you some empties?
That is a beautiful bottle. I love what you have done.
ReplyDeletestunning - and I think Louise has a great point. maybe if you offered them a couple as centrepieces - and a stack of your business cards???
ReplyDeleteThanks! I don't think any of the restaurants round here serve it, this one came all the way from South Wales. Welsh restaurants are much more likely to serve a Welsh water, I will have to keep my eyes open when I'm there.
ReplyDeleteI love what you've done to it. I have a red one here that I smuggled out of a restaurant too :-)
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