Full Circle Creations: vintage faucet handles

Hi Everyone! Happy Wednesday! I hope your week is going well. I want to show you the idea I had on Saturday while I was at work. In case you didn't know, I am the bookkeeper at the local plumbing shop. I was helping a customer find some brass fittings in the back room when I looked in a box that contained used/vintage handles. There was such a colorful array of handles. And it struck me that they looked like flowers.

So I pulled out a few of them and bought them. I got a great employee discount on them. I got all seven for a few bucks. So I cleaned them up and got to working on how to make them into actual flowers.

I love the colors and the fact that they are banged up and scratched.

It was really easy to make. And I had everything on hand. Sorry I don't have step by step pictures. I got started working on them and forgot to pick up the camera.

I took a small (diameter) wooden dowel and used a black pony bead to either fit up inside the handle or one on the top and one on the bottom and sandwiched the handle in the place. I did have to shave the dowel down a bit to fit inside the bead. Then I glued them in place using super glue.

Then a found these leaf shaped wooden cutouts in my stash, drilled a hole in them and fed a small wire through two or three of the wooden cutouts and twisted the wire around the dowel from the top to the bottom of the dowel.