Making the Daily more Beautiful!

I want to share with you a quick little trick to adding a little shabby chic to your kitchen.  This literally took me 5 minutes.  

I completely borrowed the idea from a great post over at PinkSuedeShoe.  She pitches it as a quick gift idea.  I interpreted it as a quick gift to myself idea.  I could not have found her blog post at a more perfect time.  I completely ran out of soap in my cheap little plastic container just last night.


Here is what you will need:

I had all of these supplies already.  I just snipped a few branches off of a flower arrangement that I made for my master bathroom a few months ago.


You will also need a glass container.  Any of these will do.  I found so many of these out in the thrift/antique stores today, but I found this one in Wal-Mart for $2.97.  I think it was made to hold olive oil.

All you do next is drop in a few flowers and leaves and pour in the hand soap.

When you are done, you are left with a totally chic soap dispenser.

I put this one in my kitchen.

You could make one with dish soap, too.  Maybe it would make hand-washing dishes less dreadful.  My trick for making hand-washing dishes less dreadful is my dishwasher!  Either way, this would make a great custom gift for anyone.  I could see a cute little handmade tag hanging from the handle to make it even more personal.


Linked with The Shabby Nest and Today's Creative Blog.