BLUE BOTTLE TREE

With some extra time on my hands this Christmas, I decided to take on a nostalgic project. When my Grandma Connolly past on, she had a blue bottle tree in her yard. She had a blue bottle tree in every house she ever lived in. It was even in a Arizona Highway issue one year. Every one of her children and grandchildren cherished the bottles from her tree. I have collected many since her passing and took hers and mine and made the cutest little blue bottle tree. I felt her spirit all around me as I sang and laughed and created this happy piece of timber and glass. I hope she is looking down from heaven and appreciates my attempt to emulate her mystical and magical life. The bottle painting was done by Tim Perkins. He gave me the painting and I made the drift wood frame at the same time I made the tree. They both sit in my kitchen window. When it's my turn to do the dirty dishes, I look at my little blue bottle tree and realize that doing the dishes ain't that bad! TODD/ Christmas 2008