Wow! Very cool!!

You are the QUEEN of blue bottle decorating! What a great looking tree!! Fantastic job!

Yes so so cool!!!!

I like that, it would work on a frame like I built for my Cowboy Christmas Tree. I'm going to have to try that in green bottles next year.
An idea that might work for lighting that is put a clear or white light bulb inside your tree with a small fan blade on top of it. The heat from the bulb turns the fan blade giving it a flickering effect. I can't remember where I saw that but I think it was on a fake fireplace or Christmas decoration somewhere. Might be worth a try.

Wow. Amazing. So Beautiful.

Oh my! I'll have to recruit the husband and kids to abandon the home brew and switch to the blue bottle kind! Thank you so much for sharing! Hope you don't mind copycats?!

WOW!!! Way cool :)

That is awesome. Gonna be on the look out for a base. I'm giddy with excitement, friends and family have been saving blue bottles for me and didn't really know what I was gonna do with them.....THANK YOU for sharing

That is so cool!! I love the idea!

Beautiful in the sunshine & hope tinfoil hat's idea will work for a night time glow! Lots of work but so worth it! Jan

Your tree is really neat. I like it.

OMG ........... I want one so bad now ...! Are they Bud light ? Those bottles are so thin ,I'd end up breaking them all . How many are there ? I just started drinking Skyy Vodka because of the blue bottles ....LOL
I have 2 so far. I wonder if my liver can take another 100 bottles or so ...

This post was edited by toomuchglass on Sat, Dec 15, 12 at 16:37

lindasewandsew , Toomuchglass brings up the question if they are the Bud beer bottles. If they are how did you get the labels off of them?

I was trying to see what was all the blue bottles in the background of your picture. Found your Fence Is Done post.
Looks great and I enjoyed seeing the pictures of your yard.

Chris

WOW Thanks for the inspiration. I only have one blue totem and a few blue bottles. Will see about getting the labels off of them. I can not drink beer either. Will see if the bar people will save me some.

Now I am finally retired I am going to have more time to get myself in trouble. LOL

Really appreciate your pictures .

Kitten helping me to type NOT!!!GGGRRRR

Here is a link that might be useful: Cobalt Lily

I love the Christmas Tree and all of your other blue bottle creations! You are such an inspiration!

Reisling wines usually come in blue bottles, too. A lot more fun to drink than beer and vodka, IMO! That's where I get mine!

Sandy

They'll be no 'Blue Christmas without you,' sewandsew! Wow, you did an awesome job on the Christmas tree! TFS the 'how-to's' (as you so graciously do for us all)! Any kind of 'lights' even nearby will reflect off the bottles ...I was thinking of a 'floor lamp' or something like that 'underneath' the tree. Great recycling! Jeanne S.

***oh & I always love seeing your other project pics, too!

I KNOW that I posted on this before-LOL but something happened and it is not here. This is a most wonderful tree. I love all the blue bottle things, and have 83 bottles on my 4x4 bottle tree.
I asked the question before 'How do you keep rain water out of your bottles?' Mine are all upside down.
I have coffee, arizona tea, water, vodka, and of course, the bud bottles. I bought a BUNCH of them and a friend drank the beer. My son-in-law brings the vodka bottles from the people who work in his office.
Wish I could post pictures!

It flows like a beautiful glass skirt. I love it. thank you for showing the technique, I think I could actually do this if i got the right center.
Kathy

Absolutely AWESOME!!!

Thanks again for the nice comments.

Nona, Sorry, my computer was on the fritz for about a week. The bottles on this tree are somewhat protected from water, since each level of bottles protects the one below it. A lot of the bottles here are upside down on old wrought iron fences, daybeds, pieces of rebar, etc.

The bottles in the trees have to be turned upside down. We do get a little rain here in So Cal, in spite of the reputation, lol.

If this photo shows up, it's a new experiment with bottles on some old metal pieces.
Linda

Thanks, and love the new experiment-anything with blue!

Love all the blue ideas. Have never seen succulants planted in the tiny opening of the bricks before.......what a clever idea. And the little flower pots nestled together for an edging is neat!

Love your new bottle tree! You have been busy making all those creations for sure. Love the flower pot border too. Luvs

Wow, that Christmas tree is insanely gorgeous!

I just looked at all of these again. Your garden is amazing, not just for the blue bottles. It looks like a magical place.
Kathy

It's Amazing......
Look at this one more...

Your Blue Christmas tree is magical. Along with all of your blue bottle art. TYFS Jlily

Looks GREAT!!! TFS.

That tree is AMAZING!!!! I have never ever seen a blue beer bottle. It's beautiful.

just came across your bottle work in the gardens

Thanks for the work and that you shared your

If you can get to the neck of the bottles which are upright or near so, try dropping into each one a plain chemical glow stick.
As they don't last long, wait till xmas eve and fairly late.
We did it with hubby's shelf of green special label beer bottles on a high shelf. Looked cool - but the blue will look even better

I would like to try and make it lit with lights in every bottle

How did you make this, can you show more pics