DIY: Wine Bottle Candle Holder

 

If you are looking for more DIY related to wine, here is another! This one required some tools, and apparently you can buy those online!
I found the G2 Bottle Cutter online, ordered it on Amazon, and two days later it was here! 
Assembling it was interesting, but the directions were pretty good, so I was ready to score the glass bottle in no time. 

Here's what you do:
1) Boil water in a pot + make an ice bath in a bowl
2) Score the bottle 
3) When the water boils, dip the bottle in the water making sure the scored line is submerged. Keep in the water for 5 seconds.
4) Quickly dip the bottle in the ice water, making sure the line is submerged.
5) Repeat the dipping until the bottom of the bottle separates from the top.
And voila! 

 This is the bottle cutter.                  

DIY: Night Stand Lamp

A new little DIY project, now taking up residence on my night stand. 
All you need is a empty wine bottle, without the label and some twinkle lights. Super easy, you just thread the lights into the bottle, plug it in and Voila!

Cappella del Barolo

Cappella della Madonna delle Grazie, or Capelle del Barolo as it is also refered to, was built in 1914. It was originally built as shelter for the farmers, but was soon left to nature. The chapel is located near Brunate, which is an important cru. The Ceretto family purchased vineyards in the area, and bought the chapel as well. The family soon wanted to do something with the chapel, and thought of renovating it into a "tempel for wine". 

David Tremlett and Sol LeWitt designed it together, Tremlett the interior and LeWitt the exterior. Trewlett wanted to create a something that "would attract people to spend a pleasant day; to sit, drink a glass of wine, read a book, talk, maybe pray too".