The Fickle Hobbyist

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Oh man, how did I let yesterday go by without updating?!  Yesterday marked one year of blogging for me.  I know how I missed it, though.  The fact that I haven’t been updating as I used to led to that one.  Boo.  I really want to update more frequently, I really do.  I need to try harder.

I’ve got a few projects in the works, and when they are complete I will post them.  I’m almost ready to open my Etsy shop too!  I know you’re just as excited as I am, right?  haha  Before I even had a blog, I wanted to open an Etsy shop, and now that I finally have a blog, it seems like the perfect compliment to open one.  I will be filling it with various goodies ranging from vintage finds, homemade jewelry, maybe knitted goods?  Who knows.  I call myself the Fickle Hobbyist for a reason, you know.  I can’t manage to stick with one art medium for too long before I move on to the next.  I can’t wait to get started!

I hope you’ll stick with me into my second year of blogging. 

-Autumn

This year I wanted to put together some baskets for Christmas, but if you’ve ever put a bunch of stuff in a basket, you know that nothing stays in place. By the time you get it to where it’s going, everything is mish-mashed around, if it stays in the basket at all. While at the Dollar Tree looking for tissue paper, I came across these nifty “shrink wrap & pull bow bags”. And the best part? They were only a dollar!!! I picked up all that they had on hand. I had already bought out the supply of baskets at the Goodwill, so I am ready to go.

This is what the package looks like. I imagine there are many different brands on the market, just make sure they say “shrink”.

The bag inside is really quite large, large enough to accommodate a pretty good sized basket.

Place the basket inside, get it all settled as to how you want it.

Hold it together at the top, and shrink wrap securely around the gift basket with blow dryer.

You will see that it starts to shrink around the basket, making a nice tight fitting. If you had a handle, or anything around the top, it would shrink right around it. I wanted to leave a little room at the top, so I just stopped the blow drying process once it shrank around the basket, yet still had space at the top.

The package included a decorative pull bow.

Pull it and secure it around the top of the bag.

There will be a lot of plastic left at the top, just cut it off with scissors at the desired height. The plastic will fit nicely around the basket, and hold everything in place. They turn out really cute.

Today is my mom’s birthday! She’s not here to update because she’s taking care of her OWN mom on her birthday, who had to have a minor surgery today. I sure hope you had a good birthday, mom. Miss you! But we’ll see you at Christmas.

Love you!!