08-15-2008, 12:29 PM
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Rose Garden
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 7,321
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Re: easy, cute, (rather inexpensive) gift crafts... without sewing?
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Originally Posted by Quiteria
floral pens in flower pots
You take a pen, and a fake flower, and use floral tape to wrap the stem to the pen. Then you glue a block of styrofoam or floral foam to the bottom of a flower pot, and glue a little dried Spanish moss to hide it. Stick the pens into the foam block, and you have a flower pot full of pretty pens that are harder to for people borrow and lose.
I got one as a teacher gift, and have made them now or anyone with a desk...homeschoolers, moms, anyone who can't find a pen when they need it.
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that's a really cool gift! Plus it might deter my husband from walking off with my floral pens (although he'll tell you I'm far more guilty of that).
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