Prize Winning Rusted Bottle Caps

Acoholism has a bad wrap. Personally, I am blessed to have a neighbor across the street who imbibes. A lot. He leaves me rusted bottle caps to glean from the road in front of his house. He even kindly runs over the bottle caps with his truck, so I don't have to flatten the rusted gems myself. Although, some of these I have primped with a hammer so they are more symetrical. The black crud is the road's asphalt I can't scrub out of the caps. I am calling it a bonus, since I can't do anything about it. ;) Today's project was inspired by Margaret. (Scroll down to her April 30 post.) A brilliant use of a smashed bottle cap! And since I have become fixated with crepe paper, creating a prize ribbon was a natural result. Where do I come up with this stuff? Free association. Knitting random thoughts. Oh, and in this case, a kiwi in Switzerland planted the seed. She deserves the prize for "most inspiring" today.

So go rubber stamp up some crepe paper, distress the edges with an ink pad, ruffle it all up and dot it with a rusted cap (or a button would work too) and give it to your best friend, best mom, best kid, best dad or whoever needs to be recognized.

Go. Go NOW. Don't delay. Life is too short!