Cover the inside of the galvanized
bucket with fabric to give the basket
a more finished look.

Pale Pink Basket

• 5-inch-tall galvanized tin bucket
• 1 yard of pink mini-dot fabric
• 1/2 yard of pink lining fabric
• Hot-glue gun and glue sticks
• 18-inch length of 18-gauge florist's wire
• 1 yard of 5/8-inch-wide pink ribbon
• Satin-rose clusters
• 2 2 x 36-inch strips of pink silk fabric for bows

1. Remove the handle from the bucket. Lay the pink mini-dot fabric facedown; place the bucket in the center of the fabric and mark a circle that is large enough to extend up the outside of the bucket and fold over the edge to the inside. Cut out the circle.
2. Stand the bucket in the center of the circle and gather the fabric up and in; carefully hot-glue it to the inside of the bucket.
3. Thread one wire end through a bucket handle hole; bend the end to secure it. Wrap the wire with ribbon until all is covered but approximately 1 inch from the end. Bend the wire into a U shape and thread the uncovered end through the opposite handle hole; bend the end to secure.
4. Glue the lining fabric to the inside of the bucket. Hot-glue satin-rose clusters to the bucket rim and one to the handle.
5. Form a six-loop bow with each silk fabric strip and glue one bow to each bucket side. Hot-glue a satin-rose cluster to the center of each bow.