This is a great idea: San Francisco designer Jen Pearson takes reclaimed medical serum bottles, etches them on the bottom to create a striking surface, and creates cool glass matchstick boxes bottles. Not only is this a great creative reuse, but they're so much prettier than typical match boxes, and would look cool sitting on a bookshelf or out on the patio...
They are currently available for purchase at Jen's Etsy shop for $20 each. But hurry: there are only 6 in stock!
Thanks, Jen!
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Unfortunately, it's not all that easy to find strike-anywhere matches which means these could well end up useless.
you could easily glue some sandpaper on the bottom instead.
Apparently sandpaper won't work. You'd have to cut out the strike strip from a box of regular matches.
I had no idea.
Yeah, I hate safety matches. Stupid chemical to save us from ourselves.
The Glass Matchstick Bottles/Boxes are absolutely beautiful. As we know, there's enormous amount of waste produced from the medical industry, and I really appreciate the reuse of the medical serum bottles into a functional and new household product. Your other designs on Fernseed's website are also really innovative. I love the tones, colors and fibers that you use -- and all of your materials are all reused! Thank you for being so thoughtful in your design. I wish you the best of luck. PS: I just bought a Matchbox on Etsy, and am thrilled to get it in the mail! I will let you know what I think. Cheers!
by the way, designer has a new blog where you can find her latest designs, as well as where they're currently available for sale! http://jenpearson.wordpress.com. enjoy.