Traveling Bottles - Shelf D

The final shelf in the Traveling Bottles Project, converting little hotel amenities bottles into nonsense sculptures. To read about the project and view all of the bottles, click here.

Bottle Ten: broken jewelry, wire, and a melded rusted piece found on the railroad tracks

Bottle Ten from above

Bottle Eleven: broken jewelry, beads, broken pieces of a Venetian glass chandelier

Close-up of top

Bottle Twelve: screws, broken jewelry, twig, brass bird's foot found at metal recycling center

Overhead view

And here is the Traveling Bottles Project on display in my bathroom gallery:

Traveling Bottles - Shelf C

Here are bottles seven through nine in the Traveling Bottles Project, which transforms one dozen hotel amenities bottles of shampoo, conditioner and the like into something else.  Follow this link and you will see this current shelf as well as Shelf B and Shelf A, which contains an explanation of the project.

Bottle Seven: broken jewelry, copper chain, copper wire

Close-up of bottle seven

Bottle Eight: twig, broken jewelry, grass seed, and two silver charms from Bali (inside bottle) bought at the yard sale of a woman who dropped dead of a heart attack walking down the sidewalk in Berkeley in her mid-thirties

Close-up of bottle eight

Bottle Nine: rusted metal wheel, copper and silver chain, silver disks found in the sand on a beach in West Africa

Close-up of bottle nine

Traveling Bottles - Shelf B

Here is the second in a series of postings on the Traveling Bottle Project, transforming tiny plastic hotel amenities (bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and the like) into something else altogether.

Bottle Four: broken jewelry, wire, nails, doll parts, silver medallions found on a beach in West Africa

Bottle Four: side view

Bottle Five: religious medallions, milagros, wire, beads, nails, broken tin candle holder, shattered auto window glass

Bottle Five: with candle lit

Bottle Six: broken jewelry, pins, doll parts, broken ceramic pig

Bottle Six: front view

Bottle Six: close-up

Click here to view Shelf A (bottles one through three).

The Traveling Bottles Project - Shelf A

If you travel at all you have no doubt encountered, collected, and are now encumbered by an assortment of little bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and body wash. These small containers given away by hotels as complimentary bathroom amenities tend to accumulate in any traveler's home, much like orphan single socks and Number 2 pencils.

While organizations like Clean the World have tried to come up with creative ways of recycling these little plastic ecological no-nos, here at Stuff You Can't Have an assortment of these tiny containers have been transformed into art as part of the Traveling Bottles Project. Below is Shelf A of the project. More containers will be displayed in coming days.

Bottle One: Broken jewelry, including broken coral necklace found in the sand on a beach in West Africa.

 

Close-up of Bottle One

Bottle Two: broken jewelry, shattered auto window glass, flamingo feathers collected in the Yucatan

Close-up of Bottle Two

Bottle Three: broken jewelry, nails, tiny rubber frog

Bottle Three: side view