Beaded Soap Flower Baskets

Materials

It used to be made with Sweetheart soap but I don't think you can get it anymore so you can use any scented oval shaped bar soap. You'll also need pearl topped hat pins (four of them longer than the rest) and plastic tri-pointed plastic colored star beads and pearl beads (round and oval shaped), which can be purchased at Michaels, or most craft stores.

To deccorate the basket, you'll need plastic flowers and a piece of wire.

Instructions

Take the long pearl headed hat pins and put on a few of the pearl beads, leaving about half of a finger's length to the pointed end of the hat pin exposed-- make four of these. These are the "legs" of your basket so when they are done, just stick them into the bottom of the soap bar and then make sure the basket can stand on them evenly.

Take the shorter pearl headed hat pins and put on one star bead then one small pearl then another star bead and then another pearl and so on and so forth, leaving the ends exposed some to be able to stick this now decorated pins into the lower half and bottom of the bar of soap. Make a bunch of these--this is the "basket." With regular pins, put in plastic flowers to fill your basket (in the upper half of your bar of soap) and then with a long piece of wire, cut to the length needed to form your baskets "handle." Put beads on it too, bend the wire some and then stick it into the soap for your handle.

These soap baskets look pretty and the pretty soap scent lasts a long time.

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