This is a great idea: San Francisco designer Jen Pearson takes reclaimed medical serum bottles, etches them on the bottom to create a striking surface, and creates cool glass matchstick boxes bottles. Not only is this a great creative reuse, but they're so much prettier than typical match boxes, and would look cool sitting on a bookshelf or out on the patio...
Unfortunately, it's not all that easy to find strike-anywhere matches which means these could well end up useless.
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you could easily glue some sandpaper on the bottom instead.
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Apparently sandpaper won't work. You'd have to cut out the strike strip from a box of regular matches.
I had no idea.
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Yeah, I hate safety matches. Stupid chemical to save us from ourselves.
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The Glass Matchstick Bottles/Boxes are absolutely beautiful. As we know, there's enormous amount of waste produced from the medical industry, and I really appreciate the reuse of the medical serum bottles into a functional and new household product. Your other designs on Fernseed's website are also really innovative. I love the tones, colors and fibers that you use -- and all of your materials are all reused! Thank you for being so thoughtful in your design. I wish you the best of luck. PS: I just bought a Matchbox on Etsy, and am thrilled to get it in the mail! I will let you know what I think. Cheers!
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by the way, designer has a new blog where you can find her latest designs, as well as where they're currently available for sale! http://jenpearson.wordpress.com. enjoy.
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