My darling hubby (who is very sweet and wouldn’t hurt anyone intentionally) had a little misunderstanding with our beloved sitter a couple of weeks ago. He made an off-handed jokey comment to her that she took personally and was very upset about all weekend long.
As I said, Matt is not the type to be a jerk even a little. Unless he’s had no sleep and no food and even then it’s just a little. But she was upset and when I told him he felt horrible. So we decided he should bring her some flowers to apologize. I volunteered to make this very cute vase I saw on Makes and Takes.
It’s ridiculously easy to make. Canning jar (whatever size you like) + wire + ribbon = vase. You just wind the wire around the jar underneath the threads for the lid and twist to secure then make a handle out of the wire and hook it underneath the first wire. You can embellish with ribbon or whatever else anyway you like. I found some great wire that looks like it was wrapped with raffia at Michael’s in their floral dept and Tabby picked out some pretty ribbon to go with. All in all the total cost for this was about $5 … $4 for the wire and $1 for the ribbon (and I could have used ribbon I already had, but Tabby fell in love with one at the store).
I think it turned out lovely and hopefully our sitter will agree.