Standing Towel Holder

 

Standing Towel Holder

 

Supplies:

One piece of laser poop  1/2´ in diameter x 1/8´thick

One round toothpick with decorative end

Drill with a 2 mm bit

One sheet two ply paper towel

One white plastic stir stick 5 ¼” long and 1/8” in diameter (optional)

12” ruler with cork backing

Scissors

Pencil

Glue

 

   

 

Take your piece of laser poop and drill a hole in the centre of it. Cut the top of the toothpick to 1 1/8” length. Put glue on the cut end of the toothpick and insert it in the hole.

 

Tip: Using a bit of double-sided tape to hold the laser poop in place while you’re drilling.

 

   And there you have your towel holder!

 

To make the towel, take a sheet of paper towel, separate it and measure a strip 7/8” wide on the bottom layer (it’s smoother and less decorative) and cut that strip.

 

      

          

 

       

         

 

Cover the lower part of the toothpick with glue, then carefully wrap the strip of paper towel around it. When that’s done, put a dot of glue about ¼” from the end to hold it in place.

 

Option:

 

For removeable paper towel, cut a 7/8” piece of the plastic stir stick, cover it with glue and wrap the paper around it as above.

 Wrap this strip of paper towel 

around this 7/8" of plastic tubing. 

 This will fit over the toothpick.

For fun, I took a pen and put a green stripe along the edges of the towel on the right.

BUT

That was a few days ago. Then I thought of a different way to do this that doesn't require laser poop, a drill or a plastic stir stick!

Supplies:

A flat 1/2" button

1 decorative toothpick

1 7/8" piece of paper towel

some nail polish 

and some glue

Cut the toothpick to 1" and paint the decorative end with nail polish.

Stick the toothpick in a piece of floral oasis to dry. Put a toothpick through one of the holes of the button and paint the button with nail polish and put in in the floral oasis to dry.

Take your strip of paper towel

Cover the lower end of the toothpick in glue and roll the paper towel around it.

Cover the lower end of the paper towel with glue 

and position it on the button.

Quick and easy!

Did you get Toffifee for Christmas?

 If you did, I hope you still have the trays they come in as you can make some lovely salad bowls and matching salad plates from them! Silver on the outside and gold on the inside.

Here is the salad bowl and six side plates.

With a pair of manicure scissors, cut out the piece that holds the actual Toffifay candy. That will be your salad bowl. Then cut out the corner pieces around it for the salad plates.

Easy-peasy! 

Instructions for making the salad to fill them are here. I made some salads for a friend of mine and her husband told me that he spritzed them with some of her hairspray to keep them in place. (And he wasn't a miniaturist!) You get ideas from everyone.

Final pictures of the attic

Here are Holly and Jonah on Christmas morning after they have opened the last piece for the Advent calendar attic. You can see the book that I made to go along with it next to the attic. Each page in the book tells the story behind each of the roughly 60 pieces that are in it.

And here's the attic as they've arranged everything in it.
                                         

                                

I already have a list of 16 things to add to it next year.

They loved reading the stories that went along with it and there were even some surprises that Sean and Julie weren't aware of.

I'm glad I decided to just go ahead and send the pieces that were ready this year instead of putting it off another year.