Completely useless . . . unless you consider art useful.

I got the idea for these from that cool magazine Somerset Life.  I purchased some old vintage spools on Ebay.  I bought some silk ribbon from Flights of Fancy Boutique.  You should check out that site – it has a lot of different and unique things – including stuff you cannot find at your average craft store.

I then used really thin paper – the kind you use for paper piecing  - the weight of newsprint – and printed various inspirational words on them using a vintage typewriter font – I don’t remember where I got it – I downloaded it from the web.

I cut out the words and made little flags out of them.  I then took corsage pins (vintage hat pins are sold on Ebay – but were too expensive- $10 a pop) and used pliers to bend them and then put on a bead with some jewelry glue so it was glued up by the “pearl” on the corsage pin.  I put the flags on the corsage pins.

I filled the holes in the spool with hot glue and covered the ends with pretty paper or sheet music and then covered the tops with “sugar” glitter.  I put the corsage pin down the hole – and b/c of the glue it stayed in.

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