Ideas for a wine bottle as a place-holder?
January 9, 2025 10:03 PM   Subscribe

I've owned this wine rack for ages. It holds way more wine than I could possibly need, so bottles tend to be there a long time. These days, I use an empty bottle as a placeholder (choose a bottle above the placeholder and put a new bottle at the bottom of the rack. Eventually, this cycles through them all). MY QUESTION! Instead of using an empty bottle as a placeholder, what could I use instead?

Since the wine rack is also a large piece of decor, I want whatever I use as a placeholder to look good, like it belongs there, y'know?

I'm open to suggestions. My main ideas are:

Something that comes in a wine bottle shape which isn't wine, or better yet, not even a beverage - but what???

Or, use an empty bottle to store something visually interesting - but what??? Marbles? Dice?
posted by 2oh1 to Food & Drink (6 answers total)
 
Plant cuttings dripping from wine bottles
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posted by Thella at 10:25 PM on January 9 [4 favorites]


Decoupage! It's easy, you'll be able to tell the placeholder at a glance, and you can personalise it with something meaningful to you or just choose a pretty graphic. Or make it a wine bottle patterned bottle?
posted by I claim sanctuary at 10:25 PM on January 9 [1 favorite]


Maybe stating the somewhat obvious here but etsy is full of this stuff, i.e. painted wine bottles, wine bottles with string lights stuffed in them, wine bottles hollowed out to make a holder of various shapes, etc. Just search for "wine bottle". Taste is in the eye of the beholder so maybe it's all tat to one and a few gems to another.
posted by Rhomboid at 3:52 AM on January 10


A classic: ship in a bottle.
posted by demi-octopus at 5:01 AM on January 10 [9 favorites]


Save bottles of especially nice colors, fill with LED string lights.
posted by theora55 at 9:19 AM on January 10 [2 favorites]


Tiny dioramas built on horizontally cut wine bottle halves.
posted by August Fury at 4:42 PM on January 10


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