Bottle/vial necklaces (pic heavy)

[AmandaS]

Hey people, my first post here on Craftster and I'm hoping you like these charm  necklaces!
I'd love to get suggestions, and I'd love to know what you all think!

If anyone on here wants to start making these, I have a wonderful supplier that I can share, (Although I usually wouldn't say, but if anyone wants to give things like this a try they're great fun! Just don't copy my designs exactly )


This one has real honey in it-honey never goes off.
























Well, here's most of them, right now I'm working on more!
Please let me know any suggestions, or what you might think.

[MoonlitSun]

These are amazing! Love each one so much!
Did you use food colouring for the different colours of solution?
And where did you get those cute little vials?/

[lovesclutter]

AmandaS Welcome to craftster.  These are very cute. I like them all as well. Well Done!

[AmandaS]

I used food colouring for the potion colours, and used Glycerin (Find it in most supermarkets) as the liquid.
Convo me if you want to know about my supplier for the mini vials, (who is amazing), but you can find bulk amounts on ebay or etsy if you do a search.

[garnet gray]

Absolutely love yr creativity!  How do u get the corks to stay in the bottles?  A dab of glue? Thanks for sharing yr wonderful little artwork!

[AmandaS]

Garnet, yes, I use resin glue that dries clear, so that the cork does not come undone. You can twist the eye screw pins around on the top of the bottle to adjust the pendant, though.

Glad you all like them

I'm ordering more bottles, does anyone have any other ideas of what to make with them?

[Diane B.]

Hi and welcome to Craftster! (or maybe just to unlurkdom )

Love the little bottles and all the things you've put in them. 

I wanted to ask where in grocery stores you're buying glycerine and how much/size the bottles are, since generally I've seen it only in drug $tores and baking supply stores, etc (and in feed stores in larger amounts for horses' hooves).

If you want to see some other "little bottles with stuff in them" or on them, perhaps for more ideas, check out these pages of my site.  Some mini-bottles on one of the pages have been turned into miniature snowglobes (half glycerine, half distilled water usually for best fall rate):
http://www.glassattic.com/imagesCANES_COV/cov-BOH/BOH.htm (mid-bottom of pg for waterglobes)
http://glassattic.com/polymer/BOH.htm
http://glassattic.com/polymer/outdoor_snowglobes_fountains.htm > Snowglobes

[bookstorebabe]

I like your bottle necklaces! The only time I found tiny bottles was at Hobby Lobby-I think it was a pack of two for around three dollars? I've forgotten.
I had an idea, kind of creepy-fill the bottle with teeny poly clay eyeballs! Or spiders. Yeah, that's more of a halloween thing. And I've been seeing a lot of dandelion fluff filled bottles on line..hmm, milkweed fluff would look good, too.
Resin glue? I've never worked with resin, and didn't know there was such a thing as resin glue, I'll have to look. I used e6oo on the two I made, just because it was what I had on hand.

[AmandaS]

Wow, that's your site? Just want to say it's fantastic and I have checked it out before. I'll definitely look through it more thoroughly and I adore the snowglobe idea!
I can usually find glycerin in Asda (wal-mart for those in the US) In the section by food colouring. I only buy it in small amounts because I don't use much, but it's roughly 70 pence for 40 milliliters, which isn't too bad considereing it's more expensive online

Bookstorebabe- I've seen eyeballs done before... but spiders.... *cackles maniacally* that's an idea!

I'm not sure what kind of resin glue it is, it's for general craft use that I'm using until I get some E6000 or zap-a-gap glue...not sure which to get really.

[pastelclouds]

I love the color of the Wolfsbane vial. So pretty!