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Boonville —
Nancy Schler recycles old wine bottles, salt shakers, even light bulbs into craft pieces. Her wine bottle collection can be seen at Cooper's Oak Winery.
Schler learned how to crochet from her grandmother, Ethel Price. She learned how to paint from her mother. She has designed these crafts for 30 years. She looks at labels on the bottles in deciding on a color scheme.
Bottles can become snowmen or with lights inside them, a decorative item. She purchases her ribbons that match the color scheme on the label from WB & Company. The wine bottles are $10 each. She also sells salt and pepper shaker designs and glass boxes.
"I get most of my materials from garage sales," Schler said.
She has shown her crafts at the Halton Fair, Festival of Leaves, and had a booth at Your Money's Worth. She has crafts at Never the Same.
Schler was born in Kansas, but spent her childhood in Texas. Her father owned a ranch and drove cattle between Amarillo, Texas and Emporia, Kan.
"I was born in Kansas in between one of dad's cattle drives," Schler said.
Her mother was originally from Boonville, and the two met when he was a cadet at Kemper Military School and College. Her father died when she was 11, and her mother moved them back to her hometown.
Schler received training in a secretarial program. She is an office manager at Bonnie Riley and Associates. Her husband, Larry Schler, is a Howard County farmer.
"At first this was a supplement to my income, but now it is more of a hobby for me," Schler said of her craft business.
The slumping economy has decreased her sales.
"People are buying less of items that are not needed," Schler said
Nancy Schler recycles old wine bottles, salt shakers, even light bulbs into craft pieces. Her wine bottle collection can be seen at Cooper's Oak Winery.
Schler learned how to crochet from her grandmother, Ethel Price. She learned how to paint from her mother. She has designed these crafts for 30 years. She looks at labels on the bottles in deciding on a color scheme.
Bottles can become snowmen or with lights inside them, a decorative item. She purchases her ribbons that match the color scheme on the label from WB & Company. The wine bottles are $10 each. She also sells salt and pepper shaker designs and glass boxes.
"I get most of my materials from garage sales," Schler said.
She has shown her crafts at the Halton Fair, Festival of Leaves, and had a booth at Your Money's Worth. She has crafts at Never the Same.
Schler was born in Kansas, but spent her childhood in Texas. Her father owned a ranch and drove cattle between Amarillo, Texas and Emporia, Kan.
"I was born in Kansas in between one of dad's cattle drives," Schler said.
Her mother was originally from Boonville, and the two met when he was a cadet at Kemper Military School and College. Her father died when she was 11, and her mother moved them back to her hometown.
Schler received training in a secretarial program. She is an office manager at Bonnie Riley and Associates. Her husband, Larry Schler, is a Howard County farmer.
"At first this was a supplement to my income, but now it is more of a hobby for me," Schler said of her craft business.
The slumping economy has decreased her sales.
"People are buying less of items that are not needed," Schler said
