by definition gil.ly.flow.er n. 1. any of several old world plants cultivated for their brightly colored flowers. 2. Eurasian plant with pink to purple spice scented usually doubled flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

roll with it

What?
An old daddy shirt and a roll of paper towels.
It all started as we were trying to figure out how to display our handbands for sale...
I bet you didn't know that a roll of paper towels is just about perfect!

Because it isn't the prettiest of displays, we decided to do what we are best at...
I am pretty sure that both of our closets must live in fear of what will bite the dust next,
if we can't find what we need in our scraps, the closet is the next stop.
Sleeves work perfectly for this project, it makes it no sew!
Just cut off at both ends and slide over the roll of paper towels.
We chose to take the plastic off, it just feels nicer and is less noisy that way.
Tuck your ends in and hot glue to the cardboard roll.
We used felted wool to cover the ends.
You could do this in so many ways,
however cutting small strips and gluing them on as a "flower" 
proved to be really quick and cute.


Once the little lady saw our displays, she asked for a red one for her room.

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