Furniture From Bottle Caps

Posted on October 17, 2008
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One of the things i enjoyed collecting as a kid was bottle caps. Those days, there’s hardly a can drink being sold. We only get glass bottled drinks at the stores. I’m lucky as i live right across the street from a grocery store. By weekend, i would have saved up enough pocket money to go get myself a bottle of carbonated drink.

The grocery store owner is very nice man. He knows i love those bottle caps very and would give me a big packet to take home. Those days, people go to the stores to buy bottled drinks. The store owners will open it for them at the store and place them into a plastic bag with some ice and a drinking straw.

Now, what do you think we kids do with the bottle caps? Are you aware of the small piece of round rubber stuck at the bottom of the bottle cap? That’s what we actually want, lol. Not the bottle cap itself. We will remove it and play with it. How? Oh, we each take turns to blow the rubber pieces softly and see whose rubber lands on top of the other’s first.The winner gets to keep it

Take a look at the pictures below. This designer by the name of Rick Ladd sure has an ingenious idea how to turn his bottle caps collection into art pieces. See how he painstakingly stacks and sticks them carefully weaving in and out on old furniture. Sigh… if only i had the idea then. Who knows, the pieces you see here might just be mine.

There are still lots of bottled drinks being sold. If you are the kind that has been collecting bottle caps for years but havent got a clue as to what to do with them, this may give you a great idea. believe you me, i know lots of weird people who are into collecting stuffs. Useless ones too. Now go put on your ~~bottle~~ thinking cap and take start working on those bottle caps stored in your garage or attic…..