DIY Easter Basket

This year, I wanted Blake to have a very special and very cheap Easter basket.  Sure, there are very sweet and very cute versions out there to buy....but uhhh....well I'm cheap.  And crafty!!

Here's what I came up with:

Super simple transformation, I know, but I really like how it turned out.  The perfect Easter basket for my little gentleman!

All I needed was a $5 white basket from Walmart, some .69 cent black buttons, 1/8 a yard of $2 black silk fabric (so .25 cents there) and some black ribbon I had left over from another project.  I used the same technique I described in this tutorial to make the black bowtie (but I cut the fabric a bit larger because I wanted a big one) and then hot glued everything together.  My total cost was about $6, but you could do it even more on the cheap if you used a $1 basket from the Dollar Store.  I considered doing that, but decided to spring for a nicer basket that I could use year after year. 

And we're done!  I really like it.  Sometimes simple transformations can make a big difference!