Are you one of the masses that horde their bottle caps with the intention of doing something really cool with them some day, but now just have two of those giant cheese puff (or caramel corn) containers full of them hiding under your desk? We sure were, until just recently. We gathered our cap containers and covered a full-size coffee table with caps, creating various designs and color patterns. We then covered the whole thing in glass, and set our next beers atop the gorgeous result (pictured at right). And aren’t we smug about it?
But you needn’t feel restricted to something that requires 635 or more bottle caps. And you should certainly branch out from the oft-crafted bottle cap table or picture frame norm. Here are a few bright ideas we had when creating our new coffee table:
- Earrings: easy enough if you have something to punch the metal with and the proper jewelry hooks and loops. Help with these can be found at a beading or jewelry making store, or even online.
- Pins: stuff the back of the cap with something durable and glue the pin there, or glue the pin to the front of the cap and put something clever inside. Or, if you’re drinking a chatty beer like Magic Hat, you’ll have a little saying like, “Take a Day to roll in the Hay” to show off. Magnets can be made in a similar fashion—swapping out the pin for a magnet, of course.
- Choker: the most bad-ass by far, use an old, thin leather belt to affix bottle caps on. A beading and jewelry-making or even crafty shop could help you put this together. (One assumes an actual belt could be made like this also.)
- Ornaments: nothing says Christmas like Sam Smith, Smuttynose, and Flying Dog all twinkling from the tree.
- The Easy One: a bulletin board! Simply glue push pins to the back of caps and push them in. It’s versatile, as you could use them as pins or fill up the whole thing in patterns and rearrange as often as you’d like!
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