Jingle bell napkin rings

I was out doing some Christmas shopping at Pier 1 the other day and I came across some cute little jingle bell napkin rings.  I stood beside the little bowl of them and jingled one in my hand and they seemed so festive, I just had to have them!  Until I looked at the price – $5.95 each!  Yikes!  I’m not paying that for one napkin ring!

So I inspected one carefully and made it my mission to make my own.  My first stop was the trusty dollar store, where I found metal wire and multi-coloured tiny jingle bells in red, green and gold.  And then I continued on to Michael’s where I got the silver jingle bells.

I racked my brain for what I could possibly use for the metal loop part of the napkin ring.  I considered just using wire and wrapping it around a paper towel roll, but that didn’t seem classy enough.  Shower curtain hooks were slightly too big.  But then I thought of curtain rings!  I checked the drapery section at Walmart and found the most perfect rings for my jingle bell napkin rings!  About $6 for 7.  Perfect!

I used needle nosed pliers to take the clip off the curtain ring.

Then I looped the metal wire around the ring several times.  I attempted to make a knot, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it work with the wire, so I just crossed my wire loops to make it stick.

I threaded 6 jingle bells at a time onto the wire and then wound the the wire around the ring 3 times to keep them in place.

I continued the process of threading 6 jingle bells and winding the wire around the ring 3 times.

Until I had made it the whole way around.

I actually like my jingle bell napkin rings even more than the ones at Pier 1!

And they were just a fraction of the price!

And they make the coolest, most festive jingle when they move.  Project success!

Source : onelittleproject.com
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