Things I Didn’t Buy 58

I loved this Carbolisalve tin. Soooo pretty.

I believe these are milk tops for bottled milk. Very cute.

I thought this carving block was interesting. I believe it’s for pressing a design onto Asian sweets.

Vintage straw packaging. I like it…except for the clown.

I liked the simplicity of this fairy tale book cover.

DIY: Straw Collar Necklace

I wanted to make a collar necklace using Tape Straw Beads that would be bold and graphic. In order to make all of the rows of beads stay together as one piece I used a strip of plastic canvas as a spacer bar.

DIY: Tape Straw Beads

I thought using colored tape would be an easy way to decorate “straw beads” that could be used in making costume jewelry.

DIY: Straw Band

This project just popped into my head, although I’m not quite sure why I was thinking about straws to begin with. (Perhaps it was just stream of consciousness?) But I thought straws would be a material that many people would likely have in their home and would be easy to use in this project.

Depending on the length of the finished band, it could be used as a larger decorative rubber band to hold items together, a napkin ring or a bracelet. If you have nice long beads, you could certainly use that instead of straws for a more mature look.