Hanging windlight tinker
From a simple glass bottle (wine, juice, beer) and a whisk / whisk you can easily tinker an atmospheric hanging tealight holder / windlight.
After the summer, before the summer and with a little skill, each glass bottle becomes a beautiful hanging decorative object for a balcony, terrace or garden. I liked the idea so much, because only two things are needed to bring mood to a balmy late summer band:
This is how it's done:
First, the bottom of the bottle must be separated from any glass bottle.
All bottles are suitable, which are not too thick-walled and have a bottle neck corresponding to the whisk (Attention: The stem is usually very thick - check beforehand if it fits through the neck of the bottle!).
Two methods for separating the bottom of the bottle have proven successful:
First method:
- Using a glass cutter, scrape the area to be separated (I mask the bottle with masking tape and draw the cut on it or put the bottle in a correspondingly high empty washed-out tin, possibly tuna, as a support for the glass cutter).
- Then hold the bottle over a flame for a sufficiently long time (Bunsen burner or candle, I use my burner for crème brûlée) and then immediately quench in ice water: Due to the temperature change, the soil drops off automatically.
Second method:
- Wool / cotton thread soaked in petrol or spirit several times around the spot on the bottle where it should be separated.
- Then light this string and, after burning off, also immediately quench it in ice water. The bottom of the bottle should now fall off easily. It sounds a bit complicated, but it is not.
Completion:
- Now a matching kitchen whisk is pushed with the handle up through the neck of the bottle; the eyelet serves as a suspension.
- If there is no eyelet, take jewelry wire, pull in through the whorl and then past the handle through the bottleneck.
- In the whisk you now give a tealight, which can be easily replaced at any time and finished is an atmospheric decoration for balmy summer evenings.
- The aluminum container of the tealight can still be decorated with small beads and also the bottleneck gets some jewelry.
