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Old Wine Bottle Light Craft and Repurposed Canvas Painting

This year our family drew names for Christmas gifts.  Mark is very creative and he has followed his sisters and I onto Pinterest. He made Lindsey some pretty great gifts.  The first one he made was the lighted bottle.  His first attempt was with a bottle that we bought at a flea market and used as a flower vase at Lindsey and Joey's wedding reception.  Mark took it and put etching cream all over it to give it a frosted look.  Then he and his daddy worked on drilling out a hole toward the bottom of the bottle.  The glass drilling takes awhile to do.  When it was almost drilled through big enough to insert the string of lights, the bottom of the bottle broke completely off.  So we went to Wal-Mart, bought a 3 dollar bottle of wine, poured out the wine and started over.  This bottle was already frosted so he could skip this step.  Once the bottle was drilled he took some jute and wrapped on the neck of the bottle, put the lights in and viol...