Decorate a food cover

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Keep the wasps at bay with a pretty food cover. Simply decorate a dome or collapsible mesh food cover with dainty butterflies. Ours came on wires, which we trimmed and just pushed through the mesh.

Butterflies from Hobbycraft (www.hobbycraft.co.uk, 01202 596100). Bunched Roses china from Laura Ashley (www.laura-ashley.com, 0871 983 5999)

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