□īy following the general techniques used in this how-to craft video, you can utilize a wide range of different materials to create small, versatile brooms that work great for many occasions. Let your imagination run wild when designing mini brooms. Crystals, seashells, acorns, small pinecones, dried flowers, artificial flowers, wax seals, beads, charms, cabochons, die cuts, stickers, chipboard pieces, mini sized Halloween decorations, and small bells all make for delightful ways to embellish your mini brooms Suitable found (aka, wild crafted) sticks and small branches Larger feathers (to use as the “straw” of the broom) Strips of fabric (including muslin), burlap, or thin cork Ribbon, lace, and trims of all sorts (pieces of sequins trim used for the “straw” of a mini broom looks gorgeous!) Paper (including scrapbooking paper, mulberry paper, and wrapping paper) Suitable dried grasses and/or herbs (such as sturdy sprigs of rosemary, lavender, or heather) The following is but a handful of possible options to use when creating mini brooms and besoms: Likewise, the sky is the limit when it comes to different and/or additional materials you can use when making your own mini brooms. Other materials you can use to make handmade mini brooms As part of gift wrapping (for example, you could attach a small tag to your DIY mini broom with a message for your recipient on it) Sent in happy mail (especially around Halloween time) As placeholders or otherwise utilized as table décor Multiple mini brooms attached to a string/chord/ribbon/etc and used as a garland As some, or all, of the dangling decorations on a home décor mobile or wall hanging Hung as decorations on a seasonal tree, be it for Halloween, Yule, Christmas, Valoween, etc As adornments for wreaths (I’d keep them indoors or otherwise fully protected from the elements though, as these mini brooms are not water or weatherproof, though you could certainly create them with different materials that would make them more weather resistant) For use one one’s altar, as part of a ritual and/or spell, or to otherwise adorn your magickal environment with As gifts for witchy and/or Halloween adoring friends and relatives (not to mention, if applicable, one’s coven members) Weddings and handfastings (especially if a traditional broom jumping is involved) The autumn sabbats of Lammas, Mabon, and Samhain (or any of the sabbats or monthly esbats) There are many reasons and occasions to make sweet little brooms like the five highlighted in this video. Reasons to make your own DIY mini brooms and besoms Ideal for kitchen, cottage, and green witches, as well as Thanksgiving and the fall sabbats, these lovely handmade mini brooms star raffia, cinnamon sticks, and star anise.
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