ARTS & CRAFTS WITH GLASS Glass Inspiration

[Pages:13]ARTS & CRAFTS WITH GLASS

Glass Inspiration

a Consol Creation

Arts & Crafts

with Glass

Reinvent and

reuse your glass,

over and over again

The art of Glass

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Foreword

by Maaike Foggitt

Glass is a highly versatile medium which Whether you're striving to create amazingly

offers a host of possibilities. Its strong different light fittings or candlestick holders;

durable qualities make it ideal for some innovative storage options for the

decoration and its incredible resistance kitchen or garage; or some personalised

to heat, light and pressure make it an gift bottles filled with fabulous tasting or

excellent medium to endlessly experiment smelling liquids - glass is the perfect choice.

with. Its exceptional beauty is reflected in It's timeless, classic and stylish, yet always

its transparency and light.

practical.

Maaike Foggitt

Netherlands-born, Maaike Foggitt Bestebroer graduated in Forecasting Styling at the Academy of Fashion Charles Mantaigne in Amsterdam. She moved to South Africa in 1995 working as a photographic stylist and TV

wardrobe mistress. Maaike designed the interior of the first Consol retail store in Woodmead eight years ago and has maintained the store visually ever since. It has inspired her passion and interest in everything glass.

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Glass ~ the green choice

Starting its life as sand, glass may spend time as a bottle, a jar or even a vase ? without ever losing its integrity or harming the environment. By recycling your glass bottles and jars, you are actively participating in the preservation of our planet.

Choose a gift that keeps on giving

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Wrap gifts in glass

Glass provides the perfect opportunity for environmentally friendly, natural and creative gift giving

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There's no limit to what you can do with glass. Make your own snow globes, use glass for bathroom decoration, fill bottles with pot pouri, or olives, oils and pickled onions to display in your kitchen ? whatever it is; glass will pull it together like none other. With a small amount of imagination, you can really give a gift with a difference. So raise a glass to glass and let its "clink factor" add sparkle to every gifting occassion.

Glass never loses its integrity

It's good, it's in glass!

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Creatvity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun.

Mary Lou Cook

Glass: Packaging you can feel good about

Glass containers

don't mix or react

with their contents.

Glass the perfect

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choice

Another of the many virtues of glass is its sustainability. If you are concerned about your carbon footprint then choose responsibly. Choose green. Choose caring for your environment, and for yourself. Choose a product that is infinitely reusable and recyclable with an endless life span. All you have to do is choose; so choose glass.

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DIY glass inspiration

"Creativity perpetually invents itself."

Paul Patrick

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Choose aspirations not limitations. Choose glass!

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An eye for glass: creative inspiration brought to life

"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."

George Bernard Shaw,

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Glass: where form meets function

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