I’ve been saving wine bottles for a while to try out this project… We experimented with a few ways of cutting the glass but the tile saw works best. Then a Dremel bit to smooth off the rim and a good rinse of the glass chips and dust. These hold a full pint so they’re great… Pepper has one in the freezer now too!

I used a wet tile saw to cut the tops off of screen printed beer bottles to make these glasses. Then i used a glass filing bit on my Dremel to smooth the cut edge. These are large bottles – not your typical beer bottle size – so the glasses actually hold more than a pint.

Pepper spent a good portion of Saturday making wine charms out of Scrabble tiles, wire and beads. Of course, spelling the word “wine” is the most fun with them!

Here’s one of the crabs we had for dinner last night… I liked it!

The Chamber and City hosted a brief meet and greet with Governor Parnell today. Note the rubber boots!

I have seen many things in urinals. But today was the first time Ihave ever seen ketchup in one.

A few weeks ago i picked up a tray of silverware at a garage sale. some of them were really mismatched from the main pattern. I decided to whip up a pair of earrings out of the handles of one matched pair of forks. The theme for Saturday’s market was recycle and renew… So i brought them for the display table and the got quite a bit of interest. They are a bit heavy and too long for some people. I’ll experiment with some shorter and lighter pieces.

Rachel and i were talking about rhubarb because there’s a plant in my front yard that i have never used. I said i didn’t even like it. And she said “not even in pies?” I couldn’t recall ever having had rhubarb pie. Later she made one for her dad’s birthday and whipped up a tiny pie for me while at it.

Turns out that i do like rhubarb.

One of the first things I had to do was establish dominance…

We rode the fast ferry M/V Fairweather between Juneau and Petersburg on Tuesday morning. The weather was great and there were lots of whales!