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Designer tableware made from upcycled booze bottles
Jun 26 2008, Asmita

My circle of friends has a real reputation for drinking like fish, and that often means that the designated driver, who is almost always me, ends up cleaning after those drunken morons. The task often leaves me with a trunkful of beautiful but empty...

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