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In which the cap was pretty
Bet you guys are dying to know what I’ve been up to as I’ve done a particularly crappy job of letting you know. You DO know that I have been helping Andie get her apartment ready for med school. I’m not sure if you know that I absolutely love decorating and I really enjoy projects.
One such project that we decided to do; actually Andie decided to do it and then I took it over and am presently driving Andie nuts about it, is using beer caps to decorate her initials. Oh, by the way, I’m pretty sure that last sentence was completely incorrect in the grammatical sense.
So, we ordered the letters that we wanted in unpainted wood and then looked through the beer caps that Andie has collected. Unfortunately, Andie has done a lousy of job of buying and drinking beers with pretty caps. We went out to dinner the other night and I asked the waiter to have the bartender collect caps while we were at dinner and although the guy was annoyed, they did it.
As a result we got about 20 new and pretty caps that we didn’t have. Upon perusing our collection, we decided we were sadly lacking in bright color caps and the only thing to do was to go to the beer store and buy some more beer.
We were in Total Wine (which also has beer by the way) and Andie and I were literally looking at each individual beer to check out the cap. While we were looking at all the beers there were other people ALSO buying beer. (Shocking I know) One such person finally asked what the criteria were that we were using to pick out our beers.
I explained we wanted pretty caps and I asked what criteria they were using and for some stupid reason they were buying beer based on taste. TASTE! They’ll never get any pretty caps that way. Pretty stupid huh?
So we bought 12 beers and came home and I figured we’d each have a beer a day for 6 days and we’d have 12 beautiful caps and no wastefulness.
Me: uggghhh… I hate this beer
Andie: I like mine
Me: this beer is so hoppy and so sour
Andie: I bought this Landshark on purpose because it tastes great
Me: well I bought beers based on the tops for YOUR project
Andie: not my problem
Me: let me taste your beer
And she did and I liked it a lot better
Me: let’s trade beers. Let me have yours
Andie: no way, I bought this for me
Me: are you kidding me? I don’t even like mine
Andie: then why did you buy it?
Me: for your goddamn project
Andie: not my problem
And then I fucking killed her because that kid is a pain in the ass.
The next day I tried another beer that I liked better but was STILL way to hoppy and now I think that it’s possible that I will hate my beer for 4 more days all because I’m the type of mom that will do ANYTHING for my kids.
I rock. Also, I will post pictures when the project is done.
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Oh man, shitty beer is the WORST. I would totally have dumped it down the drain. But the project sounds awesome.
it will be …almost ready
Can’t wait to see your project. I have been saving bottle caps to use on a project, although not sure what yet, lol. Maybe yours will give me some inspiration. Look forward to seeing it. I’m sure the beer will be worth the end result.
well, I’m not so sure about that but the project will be awesome
I’ve never come across a beer that I liked. I would do that project with wine corks.
well this is a BEER CAP project…wine corks are cool too
You can use beer as slug bait. Slugs love it, drink it and die. We have a slug problem in the Pacific Northwest.
uggg…slugs. Fortunately, we have none but yuck.
Another way to use beer you don’t want to drink is cook with it, like beer brats, beer cheese, beer batter which hides the taste a bit and you still get something out of it and not just caps. On the other hand that is cooking work so there is that.
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Boy, you are patient with collecting! I would just go to the craft store and buy the caps, and the various stickers, and BAM! Project done. You are my crafting hero!
they don’t sell assorted beer caps at the craft store Theresa! All done now though and they look awesome
LOL! You know I am the queen of google… and that is how I found that trick… but, Ari uses them to make jewlery…and she buys them plain at the craft store, and then there are design packs of stickers. Your method would def have more meaning! You are still my crafting hero…
gotcha…Andie wanted REAL beers so that wouldn’t work
I’m surprised you had the patience to not drink them all in one night. Especially if you didn’t like the first one, I’d dump it and try the next..and the next…and then read your blog some more.
awww…thanks for reading my silly little blog