How to Make Wine Bottle With Lights
Decorative wine bottles easily turn into lights for your home and garden. With lights inside or outside, bottles add to the decoration of a dining room or garden. Twinkle light strands are often rated for indoor or outdoor use, so double check the rating before installing the wine bottle lights outside. Embellish the wine bottles with silk flowers, plastic grapes or silk grape leaves to enhance the design of the finished lighting.
Things You'll Need
- Safety glasses
- Drill
- Diamond drill bit
- 50-light miniature twinkle light strand
- Crochet hook
- Glass cleaner
- Electrical tape
- Plastic grapes
- One part epoxy glue
Instructions
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Inside Bottle Lights
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Put on safety glasses. Drill a 5/8-inch hole through the back of the wine bottle, near the bottom, with a diamond or glass drill bit.
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Insert the light bulb end of a 50-light strand of miniature twinkle lights through the drilled hole and into the wine bottle. Invert the wine bottle so that the lights will fall toward the neck as you feed the strand into the bottle. Insert all of the lights inside the bottle; the power cord and the length of wire between the plug and the first light remains outside the bottle.
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Insert a crochet hook into the top opening of the wine bottle. Hook the light wire and pull it to the rim. Attach the wire to the inside rim with electrical tape.
Outside Bottle Lights
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Remove the labels from the outside of the wine bottle with glass cleaner.
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Stretch out a strand of 50 or less miniature twinkle lights. Tape the wire behind the first light on the strand from the power plug to the back side of the wine bottle, near the bottom with electrical tape.
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Wind the light strand around the outside of the wine bottle. Attach the wire to the bottle every 3 to 4 inches with a small strip of electrical tape. Overlap the lights as necessary to fill the bottle with the strand, ending at the top rim.
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Glue plastic grapes with or without grape leaves on top of each strip of electrical tape with one-part epoxy glue. Decorative plastic grapes are often available in the floral aisle of most craft stores.
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Tips & Warnings
Make a hanger for lighted wine bottles with 22-gauge craft wire. Wrap one end of a 15-inch long strand of wire around the neck of the bottle, just beneath the rim. Wrap the wire at least four times around the bottle. Make a loop with the opposite end to hang the bottle.
