Look! Recycled Vases

Remember those glass bottles we scrubbed clean a while ago? We've been using them as vases in our kitchen...

The vases are GT Organic Kombucha tea bottles that have been stripped of their labels and cleaned up. We split up a big bouquet of asters, sectioned them off into the vases, and lined them up against our mirrored cupboard. It's a small, simple way to reuse glass in your home.

P.S. One note on green guilt: We're still using paper towels (as you can see in the top photo), although we don't use as many anymore. We use Twist Euro Cloths for most surface cleaning, and paper towels for glass cleaning, since the Twist cloths leave streaks. (I know, we need to switch to newspaper or something else...we're weaning ourselves off our paper towel addiction slowly.)

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I use similar recycled vases to add colour to my monochromatic bedroom by spray painting the bottles after cleaning.

http://www.peavine.com/?p=55

I have to drink one or two G&T's before I can complete my set but, once that task is out of the way, they'll be filled with origami flowers.

posted by JenJensen on July 16th 2008 at 10:13am
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Just a thought .. I tried weaning myself off of paper towels, and it was pretty useless. For me, cold turkey was the only way to get it done. I still have moments of "THIS is why I need to have SOME paper towels, because they are the only thing that can fix this," but those pass a few seconds later when I realize that I do not have paper towels but that I do actually have something else that will do the job.

posted by 22209 on July 16th 2008 at 10:28am
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If you weren't using your nice vase as a fishbowl, you wouldn't have to use this junk for flowers.

Those asters will last longer if you give them much more water, and strip the leaves that will be covered by the water. But their stems cry out for an opaque vase.

posted by Palmetto on July 16th 2008 at 3:10pm
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