Hello, I pop in to GardenWeb from time to time. If you're interested, I may have more license plates for you. I didn't want to throw them out, but I can't do anything with them. Please send me an e-mail. Lucky you with your blue bottles! Laura

I certainly think that chipping all that
was worth everything you bought!
Your labor is worth even more than that-LOL

Good for you!
Kathy

Nothing like a good chipper...to put you in a chipper mood! LOL! Wonderful deal on the blue bottles & the license plates...I've been collecting a bit of both to use in the gardens...and plates can get expensive! Have you looked at lindasewandsew's birdhouses & signs? Wonderful! Here's one that I've bookmarked:

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Check her's out in the search box above.

Anyway, good scores! TFS! Jeanne S.

I never see blue bottles either!! So it was your lucky day! I like the plates on the bird house roofs. Are you using the chips for mulch? Jan

That' cool buddy! I used to collect some old things out of rubbish long ago for my garden and was in habit of making classic things out of it. I hope i could have taken some snaps of them to share with you here.
ANy ways i love your ideas and blue glass always look great n garden may be it has something to do with green plants and red flowers ;) :D

So happy you finally found your blue bottles. Bottle trees have 'officially arrived' here in Oz. I was watching a gardening program and in one of the gardens they featured, there was a blue bottle tree.

I can only HOPE I find a rummage sale like that !

Congrats on the bargains. It is getting harder and harder to find blue bottles, I think everyone is collecting them these days. I have never done anything much with the license plates, but look forward to seeing your projects.
Syble

Woohoo for you!! Sounds like the stop was a good one...great finding the blue bottles!

I have found lots of blue wine bottles and some vodka bottles at our local recycling center. Several times I have found them standing with the give-away stuff, as if people couldn't quite bring themselves to give them away! And I have emtpied a few Reisling bottles myself.

Mosswitch--I sure wish OUR recycling center let us pick up things! They have big signs everywhere saying you can't take anything! Darn 'em anyway! I do have a restaurant quite near the house that allows me to go through their glass recycling containers, but have only found one blue bottle there! It's about time to make another trip!

A friend wanted a long neck blue wine bottle to paint on and I had seen them in a liquor store so bought one for her. While there, I looked around and saw several other blue bottles of wine. Of course, you have to buy them but some are very pretty.

>>BAMACONNIE SAYS >>A friend wanted a long neck blue wine bottle to paint on and I had seen them in a liquor store so bought one for her. While there, I looked around and saw several other blue bottles of wine. Of course, you have to buy them but some are very pretty.Hmmmm....I'm thinking I'd be forced to sit on my patio sipping on some of that wine in order to get the empty blue bottles...sounds like a win-win situation all around!

I saw a bottle tree for sale in Gardeners Supply catalog. 29.99 you supply bottles.You can see them online.Good luck
tanya