When we first started making candle holders out of wine bottles, it served three purposes. It was a unique way to hold candles. It was a practical way to recycle and reuse. And it helped to catalog the wines we wanted to remember. Like a living wine library.There are so many great wines here which we read about in magazines or imbibed in restaurants and then wanted to buy for our own "cellar" at home. We are still learning about South African wines. There are so many! It is nice to have a record of the ones we've tried and enjoyed so that when we go to the wine store to stock up or visit the wine country to sample, we go armed with some knowledge.
But you just need so many candle holders. (We never did have all the power outages we were warned about last
Or bottles to hold your beach sand and porcupine quill and owl feather collections!
So I have started a new cataloging system. I keep a digital picture library. Now I don't even have to bring the bottles home from the restaurants as we used to do in the dark days before digital. We would ask the waiters to save the bottles for us which half the time we would actually forget to bring home with us. Then we would carefully and painstakingly remove the labels and store them in leather wine library books.
Those books are all in storage back in The USA now. A digital library takes up so much less space!
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