Beautiful hand-crafted baskets can cost upward of $100 and are well worth the price. But it's fun to dress up inexpensive baskets: all you need is a little money and lots of imagination. Turn a low-cost picnic basket into a kindling basket to stash next to your fireplace. Add a handle to the basket top to make the kindling easily accessible and a small basket to the side to hold wooden matches or a butane lighter. A $2 basket covered in lavender flowers and used to hold bathroom accessories looks beautiful and smells great too. Use white glue to attach dryer sheets to a basket. Then brush a layer of glue onto the dryer sheets, and sprinkle the entire surface with lavender flowers.
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