Butterfly Hanger

Dress up a door knob, Easter basket, or your baby girl's room (etc.) with this simple yet beautiful boutique-looking butterfly.

A sweet and dainty butterfly to flutter on a door knob, on a home/work wall, or even your rear view mirror. This welcomes spring and Easter, but it's cute year-round, too. For you or to give as a gift.

Approximate Time: 10 minutes

Supplies:

• 1 wooden butterfly (50 cents at Wal-mart)
• 10 inches of 20-gauge (or any size) wire
• assorted beads (or your preference)
• 1 tack
• 1 pencil

Instructions:

1. Using the tack, poke two symmetrical holes through the top of the butterfly's wings.

2. At one hole, string (≈ 2 inches) wire from front-to-back. Secure by stringing one bead from the back of the butterfly, and wrap the wire around the bead at least 3 times.

3. From the butterfly's front, wrap the wire around the pencil about 3 times to form a close and short cork-screw. Slide pencil out of wire.
    

4. Add one bead that won't slide down the cork-screw in the wire (unless you'd like a looser bead and/or the bead to be mid-spiral).

5. Next, about an inch from the first cork-screw in the wire, past the bead, use the pencil to make another spiral by wrapping the wire around the pencil 2 or 3 times.
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6. Add another bead. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until the desired length of the wire is achieved.

7. Repeat step 2, at the back of the butterfly, to secure wire.
    

8. All done. Dress up a door knob, Easter basket, or your baby girl's room, etc. with your beautiful, boutique butterfly.

   By Erin R. from Seffner, FL