MORE BUTTER BUTTER!

As you will remember, I had been on the hunt for just the right butter dish...yes, I know, sounds trivial and really kind of dorky, right? But you would be surprised at how many people understood exactly my predicament!

Having found this gorgeous dish a week ago, I then had to find just the right handle, or ring, or ....something... to lift up the lid.

 

Off I went to said bead show, thinking maybe, just maybe I'll find a bead, or whatever, to use as a handle. My friend and I searched (well, I searched; she was there to seriously buy beads for jewelry..). After walking many aisles (no, no this was not a hardship!) I spied these "roses" in a box:

Dumb me: I thought they would cut the string of beads and you could buy just one...No, you get all six beads. For $20? Not bad; I'll find some use for the others. What I liked was the fairly flat surface on the bottom: all the better to glue down. But which color? Black with the red? Orange? No, the turquoise was per....fect!

Here is the glue I used: thanks to everyone for your suggestions. This is what we had in the house, and it worked!

After sanding the bottom a bit, here it is awaiting glueing:

After drying overnight....ta da... I tested it!

   

I am very happy to report that it WORKS! It feels very secure and looks (I mean, really, just WHAT is important?) fabulous on the counter. Life should be so easy, right?  

P.S. If anyone wants one of these beads, just let me know and it's yours!

Comments

[BJ Lantz]

I say, glue 'em all to the top in a row and make it look like a cake, ha ha You could still pick it up easily. Great idea fix for that problem (that I also have!). I don't like the dish I have enough now to add a bead, so now I will be looking at the handleless options I have been rejecting with new eyes.

At a recent art show, I found a beautiful butter dish sans lid in a perfect coloration for my kitchen (green is to me what yellow is to you). I asked the artist why it was so hard to find a butter dish with a lid (if they even have a dish, there is never a lid). He gave me some mumbo-jumbo about how hard it was to make a lid fit properly. Maybe if I did ceramics this would make sense, but I am still puzzling over that one ~ how hard can it be?

[Anita]

it looks perfect!
(thanks for commenting today -- right now I'm just doing bedrooms; "designer" I am not. just a bedding freak.)

[kelley clayton]

yahoo...that looks awesome! The turq. is perfect!

And I gave you an award over at my blog... come see to get it.