After avoiding the temptation to buy those cool little potion bottles at Michaels for 2 years, I plan to buy all of them this year. Which got me to thinking. has anyone tried to make their own? I was saying that to myself today as I added up the dollar signs in my head and thought maybe it was possible or if anyone here has done something similar. I guess u would need to be able to print out labels with designs, and lots of little wholesale bottles. It just struck me as something cool to work on. Has anyone tried?

I made a few last year for my "Potions" class in our Harry Potter themed Halloween party:









Most of the bottles were bought at thrift stores over the course of the year for a quarter or less, and the labels were printed on the computer using different fonts, and then dyed in coffee to lend a little antique feel, really easy.

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I'm collecting bottles for my Tia Dalma room. You would be surprised how ordinary food items come in neat bottles. I've been collecting them as we use them. Things like olive oil, salad dressings, etc come in neat shapes.

I plan to make my labels with Photoshop, but I've seen bottle labels available at Grandinroad. Here's the link...


Halloween Bottle Labels - Grandin Road

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Printing out labels shouldn't be a problem. I imagine there are plenty of templates available online. Personally, I plan to pull the labels off the set of bottles I bought at Michaels last week. I figure any alchemist worth his salt should be able to identify his toxins by taste or smell. ("Yessss...that's hemlock, all right!")

MHooch, that's a nice collection of bottles you've got. I like vinegar and oil on my salads, so I've go a few pretty neat ones from the better brands of salad vinegar. So I either got 'em expensive or free, depending on how you look at it. :-)

This site has some really nice bottle ideas. Witch Kitchen | AranaMuerta.com

that site did have some cool bottles...i made bottles too last year, but when i put my labels into the tea, the ink bled.

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I just did mine bottles last year free hand,
Kallie, I put them in the tea and let dry before I wrote on them- I also ripped the paper, not cut to giv it a more ragged look
This year Rikki made me two great bottles for the secret reaperer, and printed up labels to make my other bottles match,
The bottles at Michaels are great, but you can make some way cheaper if you keep your eyes open for cool bottles. Thrift stores, garage sales, and of course the grocery store, I bought s certain kind of diced tomatoes, I saw at Big Lots - another good source- just for the jar, that I could use it to cook with was just a bonus! LOL.
I hope to improve on mine this year, as am hoping to do a bigger witch display.

I love Dead Spiders work (AranaMuerta) I have been looking at her work for years, onme of the first people that inspired me to take it up to the next level, she is a genious!!

I made my own, and used my wife's xyron sticker maker to make them adhesive.

I used cool fonts and aged parchment paper found in any office supply store.

Printed various shapes and sizes one sheet and tore them by hand to give the frayed edge look.

For bottles, I used stuff we found anywhere from Michael's to a thrift shop.

We filled the bottles with various things like UV reactive water in different colors, fake ants, spiders, snakes, eyeballs, etc.

Ghostess has a link to American Science and Surplus (American Science & Surplus : Items Just Off the Truck) in one of her posts about invitations. They've got a great assortment of bottles at IMO are good prices.

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