Gallery Fifty Eight: Crafts

Wednesday, 9 January 2013

Roll It and Roll It and Put it on a Wreath

I love milestones. Do you? This is my 13th Blog for the year 2013. LOL.

In my last post I shared

Through the 4th Floor Door

Happy 2013!

The burlap wreath was so much fun making that I decided to tackle a

HUGE WREATH as my next project.

It was a long and tedious project I tell ya.

I was rolling and rolling flowers..........not only the huge wreath

but also a Valentine's wreath because my goodness January is already whizzing by.

And if that wasn't enough to keep me busy I was also working on a frame I wanted to cover with

book page flowers.

Roll it and Roll it.

and hot glue it to a wreath

Corduroy - thin yarn - thick yarn - jute - felt - twine

I used all kinds of material in neutral colors to get this wreath done.

I absolutely love how it turned out.

It went perfect over the Master Bed.

I'm still working on the paper roses for the hen picture. It takes a couple hundred of those roses to cover the frame.

Hmmm........did I share my paper chandelier that I made for the Master Bedroom?

Oh dear. I never did. Well this paper chandelier was made with scratch paper (from my work). Instead of it going into the recycle bin..........I collected the paper and made this chandelier.

I can't wait to decorate

The 4th Floor Door

for Valentine's.

That's it for now. Until next time - I share with you what I found being tossed.

Woo Hoo I can't wait to do a makeover.

Hugs to All

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Monday, 3 December 2012

5 Old Books & 200 Chapters Christmas Tree

Here is a Picture.

A typical picture of my son and my 10 year old ward (whose mom is deployed) who are horsing around. Right behind my son "z" you could see half a pug. That's MA-kytah. Right next to MA-kytah is a Lightstring Tree. You know - the kind you put outside in your lawn during Christmas. Well........we don't have a yard as we live in an apartment so I am so thrilled to share with you what I did with this Lawn Lightstring Tree.

Do you wanna see?

Let's start at the bottom

Can you see what I used?

If you guessed pages from a book then you are correct

We are working our way up the tree which is pretty much how I was able to get those pages on by starting at the bottom.

Here we go.........up, up, up

To the top. Isn't this grapevine star fabulous? It was a thrift shop find at the Red Cross store in a town called Kusel, Germany. Oh how I love thrifting.

And now a full view of the Lightstring Tree

My 10 year old ward and I worked on this tree together. She called it the

5 Old Books & 200 Chapters Christmas Tree.

She is amazing because she counted every page we put on the tree and it came out to exactly 200 Chapters. Not sure how many pages. I guess at her age it's all about how many chapters she reads.