Flower Pot Pen

  This flower pot pen is one of my favorite crafts.  They are SO easy to make, and the result is beautiful and useful.  This is just a perfect gift for Mother's Day.  The flower is actually a pen, and it sits in a terra cotta pot of coffee beans, which looks like the dirt and supports the pen.  I love using the coffee beans because they smell good.  You can also use dried legume beans as well.  

  This flower pot pen looks great in the kitchen or the office, and no more fumbling for a pen! You always know where to find one!

1.  The very first step is to remove the end of the pen.  Make sure you use a straight pen, like Bic, not a pen where you "click" the pen open and close and has a clip on the side.  Making this flower pot pen is extremely easy and fast to do, but the hardest part of the whole project is removing the end of the pen. For a Bic pen, the end of the pen is a little plastic disc that must be removed. Wedge a razor blade in between the body of the pen and the edge of the disc to get it to start coming out, then use pliers or tweezers to remove the end.  If it won't budge, use the razor blade to cut off the end.