Lights in a bottle is a quick and easy gift to make for friends. They look amazing and always get a good response. Better still, in preparation for making this gift you need to drink a few bottles of wine!
Cork seed lights
Cork Seed Lights are a 2m string of lights connected to a battery pack disguised to look like a cork which fits perfectly in most wine bottles. I bought mine online from The Light Lady. They come in a whole range of different colours: warm white, cool white, red, blue, purple or green.
All you have to do is collect empty wine bottles and then decide how you want to display them. You can go for a very regular look with bottles all exactly the same and with the same colour lights or mix it up and use completely different looking bottles all with the same colour lights. Or perhaps a set of three that are all different. The choice is yours. Once you’ve decided, you just unravel the string of lights and feed them into the bottles. Then turn them on for a stunning effect.
I gave a couple of green bottles with warm white lights in them to my friend Vicky. She christened them her ‘bottled glow-worms’ and used them to shower by at night time to stop moths flying in when she used the main bathroom light. She could pretend she was bathing in under a warm waterfall by the light of glow worms.
I gave another set to a colleague at work and his son liked them so much that he commandeered them as night-lights for his room. Eventually they made it to the intended use to light up their outdoor barbeque area.
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- Bottled glow-worms
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- Purple lights in matching bottles
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- Blue, green and purple lights
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