"Welcome!
May all who enter as guests
leave as friends."
~Anonymous
What a fun, fun way to re-use and still make things pretty!
I will admit: I have a healthy addiction to having my home smell nice. It's my home. Where I relax, where memories are made, where I spend the quality time with those I love. So it's important to me that not only is my home inviting, but it smells amazing.
I love changing out my scents and having new smells to go with the mood or with the weather. My only issue is the small feeling of guilt of just throwing away the empty containers afterwards. There had to be something I could do with them, right?!
Why not make a cute table display??
This craft took me about 10 minutes total and I already had everything on hand. Total cost: $3.00. Not too shabby.
For this you will need some empty scent containers, hot glue gun, glue sticks, skewers, (or wooden Popsicle sticks), a small bucket or flower pot and some foam.
My husband had some thick foam from another project so I thought I would utilize that, although if you had some flower arrangement green Styrofoam that would work just fine.
Start out by cutting your foam to size. I used about two layers in my little bucket. I picked up this cute little bucket up at my local Target for only $1, so of course I had to buy 1/2 dozen of them. You just never know when you will need a small bucket.
Pile your foam in and then to secure it I took some hot glue and secured it nicely to the sides of my bucket.This way it will stay in place.
Next you are just going to use the grooves in the empty scent container and glue the top of your skewers, (not the sharp point) to the container. This glue will dry fast so you can hold in place for about a minute and then you are good to go.
You can see on this one I went a little farther up the container, this way they will sit at varying heights in my pail to make for a nice arrangement look.
To personalize it a little more I cut a skewer down so it was much shorter than the rest so I could use a business card to add in. You could use a sticker here, other advertizing material, anything at all.
Next you just stick in your skewers and arrange them like you would a flower bouquet. I had some scrapbooking hearts on hand so I simply did a quick glue dollop and added three to my front sticks to add a little embellishment.
As a final touch I kept thinking of a sweet smelling flower bouquet and thought that some spritz of room spray would make this arrangement smell as sweet as it looks. Now I can 'refresh' my scent any time I like!
And there you have it. Easy, quick and a great use to use things you have on hand! Why throw away when you can re-use??
Enjoy what you do and have FUN with it!!
Craft level: Novice
Time Spent: 10 minutes
Total cost: approx $3.00
~Jacqui
