May baskets, that may be a bit late

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It might be closer to June than May, but little peat pot baskets are nice any time of year, right?

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I didn’t get them delivered by May Day either. 

My buddies and I met up for a socially distant walk on a trail, and I brought each a baggie of home made body scrub/bath salts (it can be used either way). I made it with Epsom salts, sugar, coconut oil, and a drop or two essential oil for scent.  No measuring, I simply stir with my hands til it feels good, then try it out in the sink to see if it needs a little more of something or another.  

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The peat pots have pipe cleaner handles inserted into a hole punched on each side of the pot with the ends twisted into place.  Flowers were twisted onto the wires.

I glued a bit of ephemera to the front each pot.  Then crumpled up some dyed coffee filters and used those as a liner for the bags of salts.  

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Don’t the filters look like roses blooming in the pots? And, seriously, it is simply three coffee filters rumpled and stuffed into a peat pot.  The prettiness just happens on its own, no skill needed.  

I keep dyed filters on hand because of their many uses.  And the fact that they come in packs of 100, so when I dye them, I do a lot!  I have used Rit dye, Fiber reactive dye, watercolor, or just plain old food coloring, whatever is handy.  I dip them in and hang them to dry, then stack them up and store in the studio.  I love to have different colors on hand to ruffle up and use in craft projects or like this, to line gift packages, instead of tissue paper.  

 

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