REFLECT Bottles

We have had a small business idea brewing ever since April when we got back from our honeymoon. We think it's finally time to let you all in on our little plan here and see if we can't get some assistance!

The background:
We were visiting a little plantation on Kauai with a small organic restaurant on the property. As we were looking at menu, Craig noticed the glasses on the table. They had taken old wine bottles, cut them, and sanded them to make drinking glasses!

The edge was pretty rough, but smooth enough to drink from. And it was such a cool idea!

So we set about to make these glasses on our own. It took a lot of research, trial & error to come up with a way to actually cut the bottles smoothly. The sanding part remained very elusive, until we finally had a breakthrough and are turning out edges much smoother than the glasses we saw in Hawaii!

Craig and Kurt are trying out some methods...the torch idea hasn't stuck around yet.

Some of our finished glasses

Here is our nice smooth edge!

We are now on to needing a business name, logo, website, etc. The hope is that we can market to small businesses and restaurants around the country as we drive, and build up a base of orders that can be shipped out when we get back to the Northwest. There's even the potential for selling at Farmer's Markets along the way.

This is where we're at: we have a potential business name "REFLECT", liking the fact the it was short, simple and hopefully catchy. What we're lacking is a logo. We'd like your help!!

COMPETITION: Design the best logo for "REFLECT Bottle Co."
DEADLINE: July 16, 2011 (one week!)
PRIZE: Winner will get a free set of recycled glasses!

Submit entries to craigandnicoleflood@gmail.com

We'll post any submitted logos to the blog so you all can see. As we don't have many followers here, we're not sure how well this will work. So please pass it on to any artsy friends and family!