Little Mint Herb Holder for Spring

Above is my little rope wreath with my mini vases holding mint sprigs. Two sprigs actually have spouted roots. Absolutely loving this tiny little thing!

I decided to try and make my own mini rope wreath by using a bowl for the mold and making a mixture of glue and water to stiffen the jute rope. This was a pain in the neck to do but I’d already started so I’ll show you what I did. I’d soaked the string in my mixture of about half glue/ half water and squeezed off the excess liquid after pulling the rope out of the mixture. Then I began to wrap the soggy rope around my little bowl that I’d turned upside down.

I continued wrapping it until the bowl was covered in wrapped rope. Then I set it aside to dry.

Two days later, the rope was dry. It was time to remove it. I turned the bowl right side up and wiggled the rope downwards until it came off looking like a bird nest.

The rope I’d placed going in a different direction was falling off so it was not needed for extra strength. I punched out the bottom of the bird nest looking thing and had a wreath shape more or less. I then cut some more jute and started wrapping it around my wreath shape until my little wreath seemed fairly sturdy. In hindsight, I would have just bought a pre- made wreath. Live and learn.

Below is the wreath I made along with the small glass bottles I was going to use to glue onto the rope wreath. Since I wanted to be sure the bottles stayed glued onto the wreath, I wrapped and hot glued each little bottle with jute so I could hot glue the jute on the bottles to the jute wreath without worrying about the glue not sticking well directly on the glass.

Once the bottles were attached to one another, I glued the trio to the bottom of the wreath.

I attached the bottles to the wreath and dripped some glue between the bottles and wreath for extra security.

I then went to my plant area and grabbed 3 sprigs of mint. I added a bit of water to the bottles with a syringe left over from giving medicine to my dogs. ( I believe you can ask your pharmacist for one if you don’t have one). Now it was time to insert the mint sprigs.

Again, for this project in the future, I’d just buy a little wreath. That would make this project doable in 15 minutes instead of needing to wait 2 days for drying time. You can make 1-4 of these for the same cost because you’ll have enough rope left as well as mint plant left. You would just need to buy another pack of glass bottles from Dollar Tree. Thank you for viewing.