I want to do that too!

My vet has been saving small 'shot' (insulin,etc') bottles for me I want to make some mini bugs.

Those test tubes should work good!

I'm saving mini bottles too.
Here's a web site with some cute bottle bugs. Scroll down 3 pics. Cait if you read this check out the little tricycle planter!
Tomorrow I'll take a picture of the one my dh bought me a couple of yers ago made out of a mini insulator.
kathy

Here is a link that might be useful: Farming at Coujtry dreans

Wow, she really has a little area full of bugs. They are so cute. Here is a photo of how I do mine.

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Nonacook
I am an insulin dependent diabetic, so I have insulin bottles I will clean one out and see if I can do anything with it! I also have been saving my hearing aid batteries, saw someone use them for eyes on their bottle bug.
WOW the things I learn on here

Thanks

Sylvia
Nanagrandma

Here is the bottle bug my dh gave me a couple of years ago. It is made from a mini electrical insulator and has a large screw, pointy end outward for a "neck" and nose. The eyes are little cupped things that are connected and the wings are also connected. I think they may have been manufactured for this purpose - or can anyone tell me what they might be?

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kathy

I was just looking at my pic since I just took it and hadn't really esamined it. And it struck me that keys might make interesting wings!
Btw Donna I love your bug especially the handle face!

Just for fun here is another pic I just took of the bird garden art that we had given to my mil, and got back when she moved out of her condo. I don't remember what it cost but it was more than I would have paid for myself, lol.

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Its supposed to be beautiful here today, and dh has taken the day off from work. Hooray!!

kathy

Thanks so much for your responses. I love them all! So many ideas,I can't wait for flea markets and garage sales to start to look for "parts"!

This is a bottle bug I made from a little vase.

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Now I want to get a cork to stick in the "mouth" and then put a piece of wire to resemble a stinger in its mouth (a la a mosquito).

WOW love them all! So cute! ~tenderlee