I have a tutorial to share today. Be forewarned, it's a pretty lame one.
Ok, let's make this! ^ ^ ^
look above ^ ^ ^

Behold, the humble inner-tube of a roll of toilet paper!
You probably don't use such huge bales of paper (with such wide inner-tubes) in your own home, but if you ever see an empty roll at some public restroom, you can save it..... I know it sounds kind of gross, but that's your problem, see... I got mine from a really, really sanitary place (that I actually help to clean sometimes, so it's
REALLY clean, I'm sure of it).....
didn't mean to get so hung up on restrooms. let's move on ok?
- Cut you some nice, fuzzy burlap. (shall we have a burlap spree one day, all of us together?) Cut it into a nice, large circle much bigger than the base of your empty roll.
- Lay the burlap under the center of the roll and start wrapping up the sides, folding the fabric so it won't "stick out" the sides..... hard to explain, but I hope you get the picture. Tuck the overlap over the top edge of the roll into the insides.....
- Secure the fabric to the inner walls of the roll with adhesive. You could try glue-dots, or some other kind. I used liquid adhesive, which is --- um, really messy (sometimes i forget to use my brains).
- Sit at craft table and hold the burlap down tightly until the glue dries (approximately 30-40 minutes, if I remember rightly)

- Snack on favorite raspberry-chocolate cookie-bar while waiting for glue to dry... (as you can see I cheated and let go in order to hold the cookie... lesson learnt: glue-y fingers + cookie-bar = not good)
- Admire nicely adhered burlap-to-roll.....
(insert spectator-brother's question: "how do you take your pics with that colossal junk in the background?!")
- Wrap
twine firmly around the burlap sides, to keep everything in place.....
... then change mind, unwrap, and wrap again..........

- Add pretty lace trim to the base of the burlap sides. Adhere with more liquid glue... sit and hold for another 30 minute session....

- Untie twine bow, but don't unwrap.... fold twill bow like so ^ ^ ^ and tie twine around it (that is really mean of me to just say it that way, but how else
could I?)
- Layer two
pink mulberry-hydrangeas and add a gold-edged rose (I'm thinking the rose came from some dinky store I frequent ... but I can't be sure)... adhere to the center of the twill bow.
- Add a Melissa Frances
resin embellishment just under the floral centerpiece.....
- Remove colossal junk from background and take some pretty pictures to share.....

My "honey-basket"... because I love it so much :o) ............. from rags to riches.

So that's my lame tutorial for you. I don't do this much because it's hard to balance the big camera in one hand and hold the "thing" with the other. Hope you'll have fun trying it out yourself (
if you can find yourself a roll).
I'll be back, soon enough......
xoxo,
~Vi