Fingers Crossed

I posted to craigslist (Maine) again with the title: Items wanted for an art project -- and the body being short and simple: I am in the middle of an art project that calls for: Metal Bottle Caps, Wine Corks, and Sheet Metal If you have any of these items or would be willing to save some for me please contact me, thanks! Kate

Let's hope this gets some results and fingers crossed it isn't flagged as spam!!!

Working now on a few more photos to add to the photo stream then going to start taking pictures or Mara's Aussie caps... still trying to figure out what I am going to make with them for her. Have a few ideas... but of course cannot share them here until after x-mas. Sorry Mara, it's not going to be that easy to find out what you are getting for christmas :-p

Recently Added to the Photostream

Recently Added to the Photostream:

Naraganset Brewing Company

Unknown Izze
Dos Equis

Mountain Dew

Seagrams Wine Cooler

Geary's (4)

Shock Top

Michelob Pale Ale

Progress however slow is still progress

Working 7 days a week has severely cut back on my available bottle cap time so I try to squeeze it in whenever possible. This weekend I was able to boil up some more, I'll post the new ones sometime tomorrow hopefully.

As I was sorting through the cleaned dried caps I mentioned to my friend, Callie, "It's funny but I can now recognize which ones are new ones to me" and she replies, "You are crazy... but I'm happy you have a hobby... a weird one... but at least it keeps you entertained."

I finally received the long awaited bottle caps from Australia (Thanks Mara!) I however promised her that I would reimburse her the shipping — I had no clue it would be $52!!!! I started to clean some of those last night, I am going to make something special for Mara with those for Christmas, but there are a lot of new ones to me, most of which I have no clue what type of beer/soda they are from, so I'll be posting more mystery caps soon. There are a lot of Corona caps — which I wasn't expecting — they are like the ones you would get here except that on the underside they have "Australia" — kinda cool!

Some Shots

Here are some pics of my progress. Enjoy.

Some caps boiling away...

After they boil for 10 minutes I lay them out on the towel to dry for a few hours, I try to keep similar ones together, but sometimes that's not possible without moving a bunch around...

I'll post some new bottle cap pictures now as well :-)

Updates... Updates...

Got some caps in the mail last week from a guy up in Old Town—I have a hunch that some of the beer he bought was from Tim's Little Big Store—a store I frequented while I was in school up there because of their cheep prices on semi-old beer—I recognized the 6 for 4.99 price tags on the top of the caps.

I have also been in contact with the gentleman from Bottle Caps-o-Rama and there is possibly a trade in the works for some of my unique caps for some of his surplus generic caps.

Last night I boiled some more caps as well as took some pictures of new caps—I should be able to post them later tonight after working both jobs—I also took some photos of my process, I'll post those as well. I also punched holes in more of the Twisted Tea caps, hopefully will be able to start attaching them this weekend!