Turn a $1 paper towel holder into jaw dropping decor!

I picked up two of these dollar tree

paper

towel

holder

s. What I'm going to do is

turn

one around like this and then I'll take some zip ties. This is just the size I have. so you don't need them that big and I'm going to attach them with a really strong zipper so here we are you can set it in either direction and I'm just going to cut them as close to the zip ties as possible. We could leave this all silver, but one of the things I found out I'm going to use is these gold frames from Dollar Tree, so I'm going to paint the whole thing gold.

I've protected my surface and I'm going to go ahead and give this a coat of metallic paint and primer in one and want to make sure you paint those little flanges I also bought these four inch by four inch dollar tree picture frames that have glitter gold around them and then i bought these mirrors that are four inches by four inches pretty handy now that they don't totally fit in there so what? What I'm going to do is hot glue them and make sure they're even on all sides and I'll clean the mirrors of both the glue and my fingerprints later but here we go now as soon as these have dried what I'm going to do, that dry, you know, with hot glue almost instantly.

I'm going to take and glue these together. The important thing to note is if this is inside this framework, right? here look how this is on the inside then this one on the other side has to be on the inside too you can take them off if you want i didn't take them off i can take them off later and this just follows the same concept this has to be on the outside when my glue has dried on my box im going to go ahead i probably should have taken these out sooner and taken out all the little easels that hold the picture frames we have i wont need them i have a 4x4 inch styrofoam square and then i have one of these little pieces of styrofoam that I picked up at the dollar tree what I'm going to do is I'm going to put my glue gun on low heat and I'm going to glue this piece of styrofoam on top of this piece of styrofoam so I'm going to hold that until it's secure and now I'm going to put this here but it still has a little bit of give to it so what I'm going to do to take care of that is I have a couple more of these little dollar tree pieces and I'm going to cut them out I'm going to do the same thing I did before the low temp hot glue and all I'm doing is using stuff I had on hand to fill our little box with styrofoam and now it looks like Frankenstein with a pair of ears and a pair of bolts on the side, uh, it will fit inside our box and that's what I wanted, there we go, you can see now what we're going to do is what we're going to do. take our

paper

towel

holder

that we've painted and we're going to push it down and then I'm going to secure it with some pins again with my glue gun on it With the temperature going I'm going to add a bead of hot glue around anywhere the paper towel holder will touch the styrofoam as a little bit of extra security and then you can see I started to add my twist pins this is a s pen a floral pin a green pin and I'm just going to put several of those back in just to make sure this is really sure i want to show you this is pretty safe i can pick it all up and it's not it's going to fall apart i have some drops of acrylic glass and a very fine wire this is the type of people uh maybe she wears jewelry and i'm going to feed some of these beads on some of these acrylic crystal beads on my wire i bought a pack of these acrylic crystal beads that come in a variety of shapes like that and then i have a very fine 26 weight wire and what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut a piece of wire and I'm going to feed it through my crystal drop like this, then I'm going to pull the ends up and make sure that my ends are just right Perfectly , even then we're going to go back down here and we're going to twist that right on top, not to the side, but right on top of our nice acrylic drop, so with these two pieces what I'm going to do is I bought some pony beads clear and cheap and I'm going to feed uh 15 of those into each one of these that I'm going to do and after you've done that you'll have something that looks like this and that's going to shine in the light when you're done with all your little ones hanging crystals what you're going to do is go I just made four of them and you're going to hang them right on top of your paper towel holders and you're just going to twist that thin wire and then you can cut it don't cut it too close and you're done falling down and really You don't care if the ends show and if you're going to do all four, it's really easy because you can do them all opposite each other and again, you can do as many or as few as you want. you would like and you can use different colored crystals different colored beads whatever would go with the

decor

you are using but this is going to make a spectacular center piece there you go now the next thing i am going to do is have a this is a 6.7 almost seven inches um craft chrome foam uh it's not styrofoam they call it craft foam because it's made with recycled plastic so it's cool that we're getting into that and we're just going to slide it right on top of it and now I'm going to treat this styrofoam the same way I treated the styrofoam on the bottom I'm going to add a drop of low temperature hot glue and some pins the flower I chose to use to cover my ball are these beautiful purple hydrangeas so so what I'm going to do is just take each little individual foil off them again using low temp glue, I'm going to add just a little bit of glue to them and I'm going to start here on the bottom bottom and I'm going to start covering my styrof oam ball a little bit closer to you with these foils and then we have to fix this and the other thing I have to fix I don't know if you can see there's oh yeah all those strings of glue so let me show you what we're going to do so what you do is take a hair dryer and set it on high heat low speed and just make all those blue strings disappear and what else has it done. he showed me a couple of spots where i need to add some more petals so i'm going to make my glue strands gone and what i need to do now is

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ate this bottom here and the one thing i always tell people to do is always save some of your foliage because those flowers obviously came from somewhere so i cut off the foliage and i'm going to start by gluing those leaves around and they'll go these are very stiff stems that will go right into that styrofoam then i have one more bouquet of my nice hydrangeas and so am i going to cut these out i go out here and just add a few of these to the bottom so i'm going to put my flowers in and then i have four leaves and i'll add the last of the leaves to cover any styrofoam that i still can see. and here's our beautiful centerpiece and look how nice it is when you put candles and mirrors together and it makes a big difference in height so you're not looking directly at the flowers on top you have room in the middle, what a beautiful centerpiece this makes how lovely it would be for any special occasion thanks for looking and hope to see you next time here at home talking to you