The Great Eight

So you know when you have excessive amounts of bottle caps stored up from your past life drinking days? …no? Just us? Ok 🙃

Well we had a couple….of hundred….

What else would we do when sober, crafty and trying to de-clutter but the bin is overflowing? Make art! So we decided to make something out of them to acknowledge our bad habits and remind ourselves of our better lifestyle.

For the record we are sober 497 days now, and not because we are raging alcoholics, but because we decided to make better lifestyle choices for our health, kids and relationship.

Here’s a sneak peek of the not quite-finished masterpiece. It’s not Pinterest worthy, but I like it, and every time we look at it we can be reminded of how far we have come. How we are no longer stuck in the land of hangovers, feeling sick, wasting money and being poor role models.

It’s a classic yin yang symbol which has meant a lot to me over the years. Its represents the balance of opposites and the way they connect with each other. They compliment each other, such as night and day, man and woman, changing seasons. Without one there isn’t the other, it just wouldn’t work. Which describes me and my best friend. We are basically complete opposites but also somehow complete each other, we except each other how we are, we grow and change but we are always part of each others lives.

As for the bottle caps, what else would we do when sober, crafty and trying to de-clutter but the bin is overflowing? Make art!
These creations will be here to remind us of making better decisions, and basically taking hard or negative times and turning them into something beautiful and positive. It’s more effective than therapy (or so it seems in my case lately!)

So if you, too, have a suspiciously large collection of bottle caps (or something else from your “former self” era), let me know in the comments if you made something cool out of them! I’m always searching for recycled crafts! And if you haven’t, maybe you’ll feel inspired to either make some positive artwork, or drink more and stock up on bottle caps (I kid, please don’t do that).

Cheers to that! 🥂