Pure inspiration.
Within days of seeing Lisa's photo, I went online and ordered five wooden egg-cups; I could scarcely wait until they made it to my mailbox...
I painted them (I also had a hard time waiting for the paint to dry!) with acrylics. The "cushions" are made from little rectangles of air duct filter (weird, I know, but necessity is the mother of invention, after all) folded over into squares, with a thin strip of steel wool sandwiched in between (this is at Lisa's suggestion - the steel wool keeps the pins nice and sharp). I cupped the squares in the palm of my hand to achieve a roundish shape and put a cotton ball in the center. Then I twisted a scrap of fabric around the outside and tucked the twisted end into an egg-cup, which I'd prepped with a bead of crafter's glue around the inside lip. The finishing touch for each was four pearlized pins, in colors that picked-up on the overall theme of the individual cup.
This was a REALLY fun and inexpensive project (the egg-cups were .89 cents each at www.caseyswood.com!) and will make perfect stocking-stuffers for all of the seamstresses in my life.
Happy Crafting!
