Night lights

[Alliecat]

Thanks for the nice comments, everyone I was pretty happy with the photos once I had time to look at them.
The bottles didn't sell at the market, so, I have them for a while. Which of course meant I didn't have to stay up till midnight taking pictures the night before the market. Market-vendoring is a hassle...

I have been wishing I was a photographer like you ever since you started sharing with us. Back when you had ONE teeny girl & she became a superstar **bows to Sunsette**

Oh you are sweet... thank you! I never imagined with my ONE teeny girl that I would be so obsessed with dolls and photographing them a few years later!! And you COULD be a photographer... just use a phone camera or find a cheap point-&-shoot on eBay and go have fun!! The important thing is that you are happy with the results you get and that it brings you joy to do it

Does a wire with a switch extend through the bottle somewhere to turn it on and off, and to hold the batteries?

Yep, they're "fairy lights", and they come either with a cork battery pack (the clear one) or a flat battery pack (the green one). Fortunately I got one of each for the eeriment, because the mouth of the green bottle is too small for the cork to sit in it. So I drilled a hole a couple inches up from the bottom. If I'd known how easy it would be I'd have started doing this ages ago. You need a glass (diamond) drill bit and there are tons of videos on Youtube how to do it. Some more useful than others. But basically the trick is to go slowly, not put too much pressure on it, and keep the bit cool (paused to spray water). And although you can do it by hand, having a drill press helped XD
(Holy cow, that link says it took them 30 minutes to drill the hole??! The whole job took me about 15, from gathering materials to messing around with drill bits and adjusting the drill press and cleaning up everything, including drilling a test bottle and my good bottle. The actual drilling was probably like 2 minutes. Oh well!)

(Oh, and Miss E, all the greeeen is my bathmat and shower curtain! )