Eco-Friendly Blossoms By Michelle Brand
Look closely!
Yes way! Michelle Brand, an eco-designer from Manchester in the UK, repurposes the bottoms of discarded plastic soda bottles to create these breathtakingly beautiful decorative light fixtures, lamp shades, curtains, room dividers, and more. Ingenious and quite stunning, don’t you agree?
From plastic bottle to blossoms, garlands and fairy lights, it’s up-cycling at its best!
From the pics, it looks like she uses a clothing tag attacher gun for connecting the pieces– much easier than punching individual holes and threading the bottoms with fishing line!! Sooo whadyathink, DIY potential? Yay or nay, here’s wishing you all a Happy Earth Day!
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[...] these are made from? God it? Isn’t it ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!? I saw it today while surfing iDIY and I’m hopelessly in love with the idea and how pretty it turned out. I don’t know [...]
Wow – these are so beautiful and delicate looking. I think I love them!
These are beautiful~I wonder if they are hard to make??
I love the look of these, so pretty!! I think they’d be a pretty complicated DIY project though. I imagine one would end up with lots of cuts from the plastic. And how on earth does she cut them so perfectly???
This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a while, I am definitely making one!
Such a cool idea–but I think this would be really hard!!
How did she cut them so perfectly? I’d probably hurt myself trying to cut these up with an x-acto.
But beautiful, truly stunning!
Though for a different project, I found some pics on cutting the bottles: http://www.instructables.com/id/SO9M645FQ6EBKC7/
@Brandi – Let us know how it goes!
wow! That’s wonderful… I must go try it!
Very cool, I especially love it with the flowers stringed in. I’m also amazed at how she managed to cut the bottoms out so smoothly… my first attempt does NOT look like that!
Oh man! I’d love to make these!
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I am amazed at what you have done Michelle. Absolutely fabulous!! I posted the following on ReUseConnection’s FB page: “Ever look at the bottom of a plastic bottle? and find beauty? Michelle Brand has. WOW!!!… http://bit.ly/95mQW0 ” Thank you and warmest wishes. Ian Moise (imoise@reuseconnection.com
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Wow – so pretty! I had no idea where they were from until you said. Love it!!
Simply stunning………….
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Bello ! Grazie ! I am make also ! Tank very much !!!
Very Beautiful! – Bellissimo!
LG Tina
she states on her website that they have been cut, sanded then tagged together. Beautiful and brilliant!
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[...] stelle coi fondi di bottiglie di plastica, via http://www.i-do-it-yourself.com/ (non c’è tutorial, ma le idee proposte sono molto belle e sembrano semplici da [...]
great ideas
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