More Liquor Bottles --

Well, I did another stop over at the liquor store on Brown Deer Rd.  Kids get the little bottles, drink them and toss them over the bushes towards the railroad track.  I picked up 28 bottles (all but 2 have caps on them too) as well as finding three 'wizard staffs' for some future shaman raccoon or opossum I'm planning on making AND I got a good handful of leafy fresh growth catnip.

 

The wizard staffs are some sort of thick vine wood that's been laying there long enough to dry out, they look great with curved tops and lots of stem projections in the right place. Not sure what the plant was, but the pieces are over an inch thick and about 14" long so they're a nice size for the dolls.

 

The catnip, that gets dried and used soon, I'm making the Christmas mice in batches.

 

And the liquor bottles are all washed and dried. I filled them all with crushed catnip and today will be doing up the fancy labels for them.  I was planning on keeping them for Pennsic's event next year but with Zinefest coming up in two weeks I may just take them over there instead.  I need to fill out the table a little more since I have 6' of space on it.

 

The labels are printed on regular computer paper, an image and text, I size them for around the bottle itself and use 2" wide, clear packing tape over the image.  They tape right on. Simple, neat and they sell fast at $2 each!

 

It'd be nice to find another outlet I can get these bottles through, but I'm NOT going to pay 60 cents a bottle for these.  Free is better.    They look like this (I use the clear bottles, not the white Malibu rum things).