No more labels! TommiAnn might be hard at work on the Fall cure but she still had time to come up with this great idea. She rubbed off the labels on her dish soap and hand soap and re-labeled them with rub ons from Hambly Screen Prints. And to make sure the water doesn't ruin them, she finished with a sealer. Why not do this with shampoo bottles too?
I love this reinterpretation of packaging!
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Wow, that takes more time then I can even imagine. Also, those bottles are hideous. Aesthetically, the shapes are not very pleasing. Why not just decant them into a nice, reusable glass container? Doing it to your shampoo bottle seems kinda hilarious and obsessive.
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This is exactly what I was looking for. Something that traditionally screams 'dishsoap' while having a neat twist. (and I am not fond of the olive oil dispensers people have been doing.)
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Thanks for the recognition!
It only took about 10 minutes to do. The only hard part was getting off the goo - but that is what they make everclear for.
I thought about going with glass containers but decided to reuse the ones I already had since I am trying to get in the habit of reusing and repurposing instead of just recycling.
I also knock the dish soap into the sink about 2 or 3 times a day on accident - so plastic is probably better than glass in this situation.
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Having allowed myself to be peer-pressured into removing labels from the kitchen dish liquid, hand soap, and lotion... that's 15 minutes of my life I'll never get back.
In the future, I'll be appreciating that a well-done commercial label can be an example of good design.
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Like Tommi, I'm too clumsy to have glass bottles sitting around waiting to get knocked into the sink, so I stick with whatever plastsic bottle my dish liquid comes in. And since my kitchen features Bart Simpson, Fiesta dishes & paint-by-numbers & amateur art, the bottles' funky shapes don't bother me. The aggressive labels, however, are a different matter, and they have to go, but if you buy the right brand they're printed on vinyl & easy to peel off, which only leaves the matter of color.
For my bathroom, I only buy clear products--shampoo, mouthwash, witch hazel--in clear bottles, which keeps the visual noise level down, but in my multi-color kitchen, I go for for the most garish stuff I can find, and then uplight it--along with everything else on the shelf--for that extra-lurid mad-scientist's-laboratory effect that only glowing liquids can provide.
Magnaverde's glowing kitchen
Anyway, the rest of my place is full of antiques, but in the kitchen I go for Bad Taste. That way my "cooking" just blends in.
Magnaverde.
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