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Glenda Sorensen

Personalized Bottiglia Bottles

Price range: $10–$35

Where to find it: PK’s Wine and Spirits, 9221 Midway, 214.350.4344 or 8611 Hillcrest, 214.234.0383

The Last Drops Of A Wine

bottle are the beginning of Glenda Sorensen’s craft. Sorensen takes empty wine bottles to Camille Murphey of Camille’s Creations, who uses her kiln to transform them into di erent shapes. Wine bottles are sentimental for some, and can be flattened by the kiln’s flame to later be used as wall decorations, or molded to form bowllike shapes to serve dips and chips.

All kinds of customers, from wine enthusiasts to people saving champagne bottles from their wedding, bring their bottles to Sorensen to be turned into keepsakes.

The biggest catch of the craft is removing the delicate wine labels from the bottles before they are slumped and molded.

“I have to use everything from water to Goo Gone and the blow dryer. [Francis Ford] Coppola, his labels are almost impossible to get o ,” she says of the iconic film director and wine impresario.

Sorensen designs custom labels, too, from the humorous to the elaborate. Her non-individualized creations can be purchased at PK’s Wine and Spirits, the familyrun business her husband owns.

In fact, PK’s business manager Judy Rose inspired Sorensen to re-use the bottles in the first place.

“I have the most fun when someone wants a special order,” Sorensen says. “I have a great desire to be creative and am constantly thinking of ‘the next great idea.’ ”