Beaded Jelly Spoon & Butter Knife

While looking at our December calendar, I made note as to how many hostess gifts we will need this year.  I like to bring little gifts of handmade gifts.  This year is no exception.  I will be adding these beaded little spoons and butter knives to homemade jams and flavored butters.

I start with small butter knife or jam/jelly spoon.

You'll need a stiff but bendable wire and a few beads of multiple shapes and colors.

Cut a piece of the wire about 8 inches long.

Hold the tip of the wire in a needle nose pliers and twist to make a circle at the end of the wire.

Once you have a little circle on the end, hold that circle flat in the pliers and then begin twisting the wire and turn the circle to make a spiral.

Hold the spiral at the base of the knife/spoon and wrap the end around.

Add a few beads and twist it around again.  Repeat this process, adding beads to the front, until you reach the top of the handle of the knife/spoon.

Make the same spiral at this end of the wire as was done at the bottom and press it onto the utensil.

That's all it takes to jazz up a knife/spoon.

Tie it to a homemade jar of jam with a cute ribbon and you have a fabulous hostess gift!

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intentions of the giver or doer."  -Lucius Annaeus Seneca