By just pruning a few trees in your back yard, you can take the smallest pieces of twigs and create wonderfully rustic and useful accessories for your home. Why not start with a simple soap dish for the bathroom and a candle holder for your dining room table? Both are made from a few small pieces of twigs and both take no time at all to make, costing almost nothing. All you need is a saw or pruning shears, a few nails and a hammer.
Both the soap dish and candle holder would make very attractive hostess gifts. Make just one, a pair, or a dozen for yourself or to give away.
The soap dish measures 4 inches by 3 inches while the candle holder consists of twigs ranging in length from 3 inches to 5 inches nailed to a 1 inch base support.
Tools for Both Accessories
- Pruning shears
- Small hand saw
- 1/2" or 3/4" headless nails
- 1 small hammer
- Fine sand paper
- Ruler
- Pencil
Preparation
- First collect enough material for these projects.
- With the pruning shears cut small branches and use the smaller twigs to make the soap dish and candlestick holders.
- Measure the lengths you will need and cut these using the small saw.
- Smooth out the ends of all the lengths you have cut using with sand paper.
Twig Soap Dish
Note: Each twig measures ½ inches in diameter
- 2 – 5 inch twigs
- 4 – 4 inch twigs
Instructions
- On a flat surface, place two of the 5 inch twigs about 2 ¾ inches apart; these form the base.
- Place each one of the 4 inch twigs about ¼ inches apart on top of the two base pieces and then nail into place.
The soap dish is ready to use.
Candle Holder
Note: Each twig is approx. ½ inches in diameter
- 10 - Various sized twigs (3 inches to 4 inches)
- 1 – 1 inch high x ¾ inch diameter (centre support)
- 8 – 3 inch twigs
- 6 – 5 inch twigs (base support)
- Glue gun and sticks (optional)
Instructions
- Measure and cut out the pieces you will need for this project and sand the ends.
- To hold the candle in place, you will need to hammer a headless nail into the top centre of the centre support twig piece, letting it stick out abut 1 inch.
- Next using the ten twigs, nail these one by one around the centre support. (You can use a glue gun to hold these twigs in place while you nail them in place.)
- Finally, place the 5 inch base twigs, log-cabin style, one on top of the other around the candle holder and nail into place.
Once you have mastered these simple twig accessories, why not make a twig_basket or two.
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