My last ornaments for the month are these cute little flower pot bells! My mom loves bells so we always have bells on our tree. When I saw these little flower pots at Michael's, I immediately thought of bells!
They were pretty easy to put together, but I admit I had to think a little bit about how to rig up the clapper for the inside. I started off by painting the flower puts in cute bright colors, just because that's what paint I had on hand. These guys aren't going to end up matching anything I have on my tree...
After that I had to figure out how to make the clapper for the inside. I wanted it to tied together with the hanger, but the hole in the bottom (well now the top...) of the flower pot was too big to just tie a knot on either side of the hole. Instead, I put a button on either side of the hole and strung my cording through that. I used a 2-hole button on the top, but a 4 hole on the bottom.
Let's see if I can say this clearly... I tied a knot on top of my outside button strung the cord through the 2 holes of the top button, and then I strung them through two opposite holes in the inside button. I another piece of cord through the other two holes of the inner button, and attached a bead and then tied a knot under the bead. THEN I tied the two ends of the hanger cord into a knot, and trimmed all the edges. You can kinda see what I'm talking about in this photo. Maybe...
So, that brings us to the end of ornament month! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. I still have a few more ornaments that I haven't posted about yet, so I might be putting some of those up in December. Or I could just save them for next year :)
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