Personalized Milk Bottles & Silhouette Promotion!
Sigh…. I remember the good old days when we’d hear the clink of milk bottles arriving on the front doorstep. The glass bottles would be icy to the touch. For once, I actually wanted to drink my milk.
No, I didn’t grow up in the early 1900s. When I was in middle school, my Mom signed up for a service that would deliver milk in glass bottles to our doorstep each week. Like magic. We’d leave the empty bottles in the same place from whence they came, and they’d be picked up by the same service to be recycled. And so was the circle of our dairy life!
I think eventually, the cost of the service outweighed the vintage charm, and my parents decided to just go back to buying milk at the store in the plastic containers the new-fashioned way…but it was fun while it lasted.
So, of course, I couldn’t help but indulge my inner nostalgia when I saw some vintage-style plastic milk bottles for sale on *Pick Your Plum this past Christmas. I picked that plum faster than you can say, “Bob’s your uncle!”
Aside: have you heard of Pick Your Plum? If not, let me rock your world: it’s a daily deal site with mega-sales on craft supplies, gifts, clothing, jewelry…pretty much everything swoon-worthy. The deals usually sell out fast, so you can sign up to get an email each morning announcing the deals for that day. Oh, and all of their packages come with a piece of Laffy Taffy inside; it’s the little things….
A few months later, I found the prefect recipients for those milk bottles three: Avery, Reagan, and Logan, the three precious offspring of my friend Gina from college and her hubby Anton. (You may remember Gina and Logan from my “Keep Calm & Carry Me” onesie tutorial….)
Mark and I got to visit Gina and her family in Colorado this past February, and the milk bottles seemed like the perfect gifts to leave behind for the kids!
Of course, with three bottles for three kids, color-coding wasn’t enough. By golly, they needed labels! (I only grew up with one sibling, and I still very much understood the value of having your name plastered on something. And not just your first name, but your middle name, too.)
And how would I accomplish such a feat?
Enter…my trusty dusty Silhouette Cameo.
My absolute favorite thing about my Silhouette Cameo is how easily I can now make personalized gifts.
In less than thirty minutes, I was able to design some labels with the free font KG Lego House, cut them on white vinyl using my Cameo, and slap them onto the plastic milk bottles using transfer paper. It was almost embarrassingly easy! (I need more projects like that.)
If you’d like to see a step by step photo tutorial of the process, check out my vinyl labels tutorial.
CARE TIP: If you put vinyl on drinking bottles, just be sure to hand-wash only.
From the smiles on their faces, I think the gifts were a hit! Vintage milk bottles might be making a comeback, after all.
Oh, and get this: their outfits just happened to perfectly match the colors of their bottles. How serendipitous is that? #MFEO.
Where to buy plastic milk bottles like these:
Although I was unable to find these particular bottles for sale anywhere online right now, etsy does have a nice assortment of clear plastic milk bottles with the vintage look that you could customize with your own vinyl labels! I think they’d make great shower or party favors this summer. Or gifts for your hostess’ kids, of course!
Silhouette Promotion
I’m delighted to announce that Silhouette is kicking off a new promotion today with 30% off everything at silhouetteamerica.com! {With the exception of downloads, download cards, subscriptions, and gift cards.} Awesome-sauce.
Plus, if you’re interested in taking the plunge and buying your own machine, they’ve got two bundles for the Cameo and Portrait on major discount.
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1 Silhouette Portrait™
1 Silhouette Portrait® tote
1 grey Silhouette Portrait® dust cover
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Click HERE to access the special Silhouette deals running today through July 5th.
Happy Birthday, Gina!
Oh, and it’s Gina-bear’s birthday today! Happiest of birthdays, sweet friend. You rock a hat like no one else.
Full Disclosure: I was not compensated for this post; however, this post contains affiliate links, meaning that if you make a purchase using my code or after clicking through a link, I receive a small commission. Please rest assured that as always, I only recommend products that I use and love. And gosh darn it, I do genuinely love Pick Your Plum & my Silhouette Cameo!
{Linking up these parties.}
Omigosh, these are super cute, but I’ve never used pick your plum, and I don’t see them listed. I wonder if there’s another place to get them? I’ve looked on Aladdin mugs website, and container store… but alas, I’ll have to keep an eye out on PYP. Thanks!
I wish we were still in the era of the milkman! Love this idea— I’ll add it to my list of projects to try on my silhouette— which has finally made it’s grand entrance off the floor, and onto my desk, for actual use. 🙂
Love these!!! I love the nostalgic feelings they bring back, even if the little ones are far too young to remember milk was once actually delivered to people’s doors! I bet they loved it!!!
Those milk bottles are adorable! Love =)
These are so adorable! And how awesome that they color-coordinated with their outfits! It was fate! 🙂 Hope you’re having a wonderful week, friend!!
~Abby =)
These are pretty and so personalized (with middle names, too) and that’s amazing that the kids’ outfits matched the color of their milk bottles! I had forgotten about the brief interlude having vintage milk bottles delivered to our house in the 90s…that was fun, and the chocolate milk was so delicious! I actually grew up with full glass milk bottles being delivered to an aluminum box at our back door, and our empties retrieved twice a week. Yes, those were special, happy days.
This is a lovely birthday post for Gina today, too!
Love the bright colors of those bottles!
I bought the same set of milk jugs from PYP last year!! We love them! Not too long ago they had clear with white lids and I almost bought those too! What a cute gift. You are so creative! How did you like Colorado? I moved from there about 5 years ago and still miss it! 🙂
So cute!
That was so thoughtful of you to make those for the kids. I’ll bet they were tickled to death. I remember we had milk delivered in a 5 gallon plastic jug with a spigot. Those were the days!