tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5016617521332174552024-03-05T17:45:23.003-08:00Neck Hill Crafts and Designwreaths, bows and other craftinessUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-70793683196920597762014-03-12T13:10:00.001-07:002014-03-19T10:05:40.319-07:00A mammogram, a vase and a wreath<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently had my yearly mammogram. Since I turned 40, I have been going yearly and plan to do so in the future. There are times when I should go to the doctor when I don't, when I should go to the dentist, but I don't, but I don't mess around with getting a mammogram (plus it helps that they schedule them for the next year when you check in). Two of my cousins have been diagnosed with breast cancer, one a few years ago and is doing well, the other is going through treatment right now. They are a constant reminder to follow through with my appointment. Anyway, all went well, and when I was leaving they offered my a rose, I happily accepted, but when I got home, I realized that I didn't have a bud vase. I looked through my collection of jar and bottles that I had been saving to use on a rainy day and found a Holland House Cooking wine bottle. I grabbed some twine and my glue gun and starting making a vase for my rose. Nothing fancy, but it did the job and it was free!!</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I posted this wreath back in October during Breast Cancer Awareness month, but without the bling, so I took the post down. My daughter thought it needed a little something extra, so this is my updated version.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-75958973680083998352014-03-09T07:36:00.003-07:002014-03-09T07:36:42.056-07:00Granola Bar Retreat Treats<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My oldest daughter is being Confirmed in May and she had her retreat this weekend. She came home last night after Mass and she's very glad to be home - she didn't like the food. If you knew my daughter you'd know what a HUGE deal that is. She is such a foodie. She's in the culinary program at her vocational school and last year for her birthday, I bought her all her favorite foods, she was in heaven. Anyway, she did enjoy the retreat, she said it was a good experience and not at all what she expected (in a good way), but as soon as she got home, she went out with her dad to get Chinese takeout. My part in this retreat other than attending closing Mass this evening was to make a snack and <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to attempt my fourth try at granola bars.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have been determined to make my own, but it hasn't gone so well. My kids love them and I usually buy the Quaker Oats low sugar peanut butter or chocolate chip, but I've been trying to save money buy attempting to make their snacks, namely, granola bars. I found this great recipe online - <a href="http://domesticmessmom.blogspot.mx/2012/02/best-homemade-granola-bars-ever.html" target="_blank">granola bars</a>. The first time I made it, they came out great and everybody loved them but I've made them twice since then and haven't had the same success. Well, I decided to give it one more attempt, as I refuse buy them anymore. I made a few adjustments and tried them out on my critics before I sent them to the retreat and... success!! It was unanimous, I got the green light to make them again and they were allowed to go to the retreat! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know this is more a craft blog, but I wanted to share. I made a couple of changes. The first change isn't a big deal, I used Easter M&Ms instead of chocolate chips. The second change made more of a difference. The kids were saying that they were too hard, so I baked them for 30 minutes, not 40 as the recipes says. They do harden pretty quickly once out of the oven, but the kids are used to the chewy ones, so I tried for less time and it seemed to work. Everything else is the same. Enjoy!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-53710118420138523752014-03-06T14:38:00.000-08:002014-03-08T19:32:11.713-08:00Saint Patrick's Day Wreaths and Snacks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My kids wanted me to make a wreath for the front door to show our Irish spirit/heritage. So I took advantage of the sale Joann Fabric's had for Presidents day, and got some fabric the color of the Irish flag and used a wire wreath I had left over from Christmas. My girls took turns helping me tie on the fabric and we finished with a plaid green bow.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A cup of Lucky Charms was added to a cone shaped cello bag. I found a cute little graphic and attached it to green scrapbooking paper and finished with green ribbon. I'm planning on using these for breakfast from the Sneaky Leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day morning, but it could also be used as a party favor. Enjoy! </span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-17411722891654050542014-03-06T11:58:00.004-08:002014-03-06T22:32:53.302-08:00Upcycled First Communion Banner<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My son and daughter sing in the children's choir at church and they've been practicing songs for the First Communion masses. It was just last year that we were getting ready for my daughter's First Communion, so I wanted to share her banner that we made last year. I couldn't leave the house one Saturday afternoon about this time of year (I think we were down to one car at the time), anyway, I realized at the last minute that my daughter needed her banner for the next day. After scrounging around the house for a while, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found everything I needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The previous year, we had been to a wedding and the Bride and Groom had left welcome bags in all the guest rooms, it was the right material so I cut it part. This was what was going to be the structure of my banner. After dissembling it being careful to cut on the seams, I began piecing it together. The top portion of the banner was one side of the bag, the bottom half was the other. Where the green band of fabric is, was where I glued the two together so that they were the correct length. The loops for the dowel were originally on either side of the bag which held the wooden handles. I cut those off and hot glued them to the back of the banner so that we could insert the dowel. Then the fabric was glued to cover the seam where I attached the two sides together. After I put it all together, it was time to decorate. My daughter knew what she wanted on it and the colors and it had to have glitter. I had felt so I traced the letters of our last name using paper metallic letters I had on hand from Willy Wonka birthday party (that's a post for a later date). I cut them out with pinking shears and glittered them alternating colors, then hot glued them on. We added a cross made out of cardboard, covered in green velvet and she wanted a spot on there to remember her grandmother who had passed away. So In the bottom left hand corner, I used a cookie cutter to trace hearts in the velvet green and green cotton fabric that was already used. I wrote "Nonna" on the fabric. Last but not least, we added the date of her communion in gold glitter and added two bows on either side of the dowel. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the favors, I found this awesome idea - snowmen coffee cans. We painted coffee cans white, used felt for the ear muffs and used black and red sharpies to make the face. We stuffed our snowman cans full of movie treats. A package of hot cocoa, microwave popcorn (which I covered in white paper and drew a snowman face and hat) and junior mints.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our craft were skiing snowmen. The kids started out with pine cones painted white which were glued to popsicle sticks. We had googly eyes, felt and other items for them to decorate their snowmen. Sorry, just had to stop and watch Pink sing over the rainbow on the Oscars. Anyway, back to the party. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So we wrapped everything up with an ice cream cake (of course!) and a very happy girl!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-10411678903167257042014-02-21T19:55:00.001-08:002014-02-21T19:55:29.214-08:00Diaper Babies and Baby Food Cake to Welcome a New Addition<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My sister recently had her fourth baby, a beautiful boy. My daughters wanted to make their gifts for her baby shower, so they both went on Pinterest, did their research, made out shopping lists and voila!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">She used cardboard cake rounds to build her three tiers. After a few tries of rearranging the jars, she secured everything in place and added the ribbon. The stickers went on last along with her frog friend. I think she had a great first try and my sister loved it, and definitely loved having the jars on hand for when the little one was ready for his first taste of food. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">This is the third diaper baby basket that my eight year old has made. She found this idea herself on Pinterest (she has her own account :)). </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">They were a big hit and so easy to make! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">She rolled out size 1 diapers (you can do this with the newborn or size 2 in case someone else at the shower is making a diaper cake). She then secured them with a clear hair elastic that we purchased from Walmart. The hats (socks from my sister's registry at Target) were separated from their pairs and each one was put on the top of the rolled diaper and then she pushed in the remainder of the sock inside the top portion. She drew little eyes (some closed some open, you could also use googly eyes), we used a thin sharpie. For the blanket (washcloths that were purchased from my sister's registry), she folded them into a triangle and wrapped it in a swaddle, like you would a newborn. We bought the basket at the dollar tree and used baby scrapbooking stickers that I had leftover to decorate the inside. We used spare diapers on the bottom of the basket to give the babies some height (my daughter called it their mattress). :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">My sister loved her gifts and the fact that the girls made them their selves. And I thought it was pretty cool that they chose unique, creative gifts, that will get a lot of use. Oh, and I also liked that they spent time letting their creative juices flow instead of being in front of the computer, on the phone or in front of the tv. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I used a 14" Styrofoam wreath and covered it with strips of white cotton fabric. The strips are about 1.5" wide. I used a dot of hot glue to secure the first strip to the side of the wreath that was to be the back. I used common pins to secure each of the strips to the back as I went, but you could use fabric glue as well or a dot of hot glue. Once I was done wrapping the fabric, the letters were glued on and my socks, precut the ribbon and attached it with hot glue to the back.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-67012536243242643832014-02-18T15:15:00.002-08:002014-02-18T15:15:26.142-08:00Perfect snowy day snack - Snowman Snack Mix<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was recently snack mom for my daughter's Brownie Troop. I wasn't sure what to make to please all thirteen girls, so I looked on Pinterest and found the cutest snack called Snowman Snack mix. It's supposed to be the pieces of a melted snowman. The blog that I found it on was nice enough to have template to print off. Her troop leader said that everyone loved it! Thank you Pinterest!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saw this peacock during the Christmas season at Michaels and got it on clearance. It spoke to me. I loved the colors and I found the yarn a few aisles over (on sale!!) and I had the ribbon. The colors matched perfectly, I didn't think they would go together, being three different items with a similar shad of turquoise, but it worked! I was a happy girl! Oh and I had a coupon for the wreath, so I was a super happy girl!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I started with a 12" foam wreath, used fabric spray to glue one end to the side that was going to be my back. I then began to wrap my soft fluffy yarn tightly around the wreath. It took about 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours. Once I finished wrapping, I secured the end to the back with a dot of hot glue. The bow was glued on first and then my proud peacock went right on top. For the hanger in the back a pipe cleaner was cut in half, wrapped in the yarn and formed into a circle. Twist the ends and glue it to the back! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found the clip art online for free, sized it down in Micro Soft Word and printed. I then cut it out with the smaller of my two circle punches and cut out the red paper with the larger. I used a handheld hole punch to put the hole at the top of the anchor. For the rope, I cut out the desired length and then put a little hot glue at each end so that it wouldn't fray and unravel. Once I tied the knot, I put one more small dot of hot glue at the knot, because I noticed that they were loosening. That did the trick.</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-54769064710746162062014-02-18T06:13:00.001-08:002014-02-19T05:06:10.917-08:00Masquerade Mask<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope everyone is getting through this long winter. I just realized that Mardi Gras was coming up and thought I'd share the Mask I made for my daughter's Semi Formal. Her dress was a pale blue color and she wanted a little bling, so here's what I came up with. She looked wonderful and had a great time at her eighth grade semi.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cut the strings off the back of the paper mache mask and brushed a light coat of modge podge. I covered it with the decorative paper I had purchased and poked a hole with a pencil where the eyes were. Then the paper was pushed back to form the eyes and glued to the back. I just kept smoothing and cutting until I was happy with how it looked. You might need a second sheet of paper for the back. I then glued on the strand of rhinestones around the outside. A light coat of modge podge was put all over the front and back. Just a note, and I learned this the hard way, depending on the sheen of your paper or if it has glittered on it, the modge podge will dull the paper. You'll still have the shine, but the sparkle disappears. Continuing on, the stick is a skewer that was spray painted in a light gray and then sprayed with a light coat of glitter spray. When you glue the stick make sure the pointed end is glued to the mask. It accented her dress very nicely and she has a keepsake from her eighth grade semi formal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was also on the decorating committee for her semi formal and was in charge of displaying the masks for the students to take when they walked in. The color scheme was gold, black, white and green. Most of the masks (below) came from Oriental Trading.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-48985763069867986872014-02-14T11:21:00.001-08:002014-02-19T04:32:31.504-08:00Valentines Day Corsage<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a while since I've posted, but I wanted to share the corsage I made for my nine year old daughter. She and her dad went to a Father Daughter Valentines Day Dance on Sunday, and of course we couldn't have her go to a dance without a corsage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I think I found the last bunch of roses at Michaels. After trimming down the stems, I wrapped them in floral tape and then the red ribbon. It's hard to tell in the picture, but the edges of the roses are glittered in red. The corsage was very easy to use. After turning it inside out, I hot glued my flowers and then the white bow and the red on top of that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The corsage went perfectly with her red party dress. She was so excited to go on her date with dad and they had a great time. I think my husband had more fun than she did, I heard the DJ played some old school rap :).</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-16771687055851494742013-11-26T17:51:00.000-08:002014-02-19T06:34:25.142-08:00Boston Strong<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was watching the Boston Marathon on television when they broke in with the news about the explosions. My heart sank, what now. And then as hours went on, I couldn't believe what I was seeing on tv. I had been down on Boylston street more times then I could count and had grew up going down to the city. We moved from the area four years ago, but miss it and love when we take drives into town. The next day, I was driving the kids down to Maryland to see my sister and later on that week my husband called me in the early morning hours of Friday morning to tell me about what was going on in Watertown and Newton. My old stomping grounds, I grew up in Newton and our favorite mall was the Arsenal Mall in Watertown, which I saw on the news with swat teams and police cars blocking off the road and keeping the media out of harms way. I lived in four out of the five cities/towns that were shut down that day and I was so sad to see the fear that was put into our cities and state, but so proud of the way the people of Massachusetts and the country stood by its victims.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-64125333714507413552013-11-15T06:14:00.000-08:002013-11-15T06:14:06.030-08:00Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A couple of weeks ago my older daughter and I went to the Midnight Madness sale at AC Moore and I found fabric squares that I thought would be a great background for a Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Once I got started, I couldn't stop with his feathers, I just kept layering. I think it was about 1:00 a.m. when I stopped. My older daughter helped me with his beak and the little ones had their input as well (good and bad). It was a family affair.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-10244797237062191772013-11-10T04:16:00.002-08:002013-11-10T04:16:50.048-08:00Fall Wreath Giveaway!<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's been a few days (plus some) that I've posted. The holidays sure do come upon us quick! And in the spirit of giving and thanks (the Hallmark Christmas movies are rubbing off on me!!) I wanted to give away a wreath for Thanksgiving! So if you post on my blog from today (11/10) until Sunday 11/21 I will choose a name at random and will send you the wreath below! It is a 16", oval grapevine wreath with Fall ribbon and flowers.</span> I'd love to hear from you, so please post away!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-62470783651660683192013-11-01T18:53:00.000-07:002013-11-02T10:44:13.342-07:00Marine Corps Wreath<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My dad served 21 years in the Marine Corps and did two tours Vietnam. He likes when we wish him a happy birthday on November 10th (Marine Corps Birthday). This year I made him a birthday gift.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-49461018269994076582013-10-31T23:47:00.001-07:002013-11-01T13:36:38.629-07:00Halloween Crafts<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Yesterday was a busy a day of running around and craftiness. It started with an updated version of the snack I did last year for school which was the Halloween Trail Mix.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After running around to different classroom parties, I came home to finish up a couple of more projects. The mummy cup was next. I saw this on Pinterest and thought would be super cute for my nephew.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He's two and a half so I purchased him a cup with a straw from Walmart and filled it with about 4 packages of the Motts fruit snacks (that's all that would fit). The cup was wrapped in a gauze self stick material also bought at Walmart. One package would do fine, but you will get little more coverage and it will be a bit thicker if you do two. I had the googly eyes and drew on the mouth. He loved it! </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-76321737082130972982013-10-30T19:35:00.002-07:002013-11-01T13:37:22.646-07:00More Spookiness for Halloween<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So my kids said I needed to make a Halloween wreath for our house instead of doing one for everyone else's. I squeezed this in before it was too late.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had actually made the bow a few weeks ago and was dying to use it but didn't have anything to put it on. I found this super cute fabric at Joann Fabrics, got some Halloween trinkets from AC Moore, and the kids got their wreath.</span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-37271107977329979742013-10-28T08:31:00.006-07:002013-10-28T08:31:56.336-07:00Putting my glittered acorns to use<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Last Fall my kids and I spent a Sunday afternoon glittering acorns after saw it on Pinterest. My background gets covered with them so we decided to add them to our Fall decorating inside. I had some left over and wanted to add a little glitz to a wreath I was making for the Fall. I was also practicing my bow technique as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A grapevine wreath from Michael's (purchased with a coupon of course) was decorated with glittered acorns that were hot glued as well as a big old bow from ribbon I got on sale (again from Michael's). :)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-9741351230733344102013-10-28T08:19:00.004-07:002013-10-28T08:19:57.131-07:00Harry the Monster<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I saw this idea on Pinterest last fall and loved it! So cute and easy and FREE! I didn't have to run and purchase anything because we had everything on hand! My five year old son couldn't wait to put "Harry" up in the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Two paper plates were used for the eyes and black circles were cut out of black construction paper for the pupils. The eyebrows were also cut from the black paper and for the mouth we used five strips of red paper. Everything was secured to the wall with double sided tape! :)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-42387716338296805422013-10-28T08:11:00.000-07:002013-10-28T08:34:42.222-07:00Halloween Wreath<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This Wreath made for a hostess gift for my sister-in-law who had a Halloween party yesterday. My eight year old picked out the fabric from Jo-Ann Fabrics where I used my 50% off coupon! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">A foam wreath from Michael's (I had a 40% coupon for that!) was covered in about 4-5, 1 1/2" strips of cute skeleton fabric from the one yard that I purchased. I began hot gluing one end of the fabric to the back of the wreath and wrapped it around the wreath and then glued the other end and repeated. I used silver glitter spray to lightly coat the wreath. A white bow was added and I attached a smaller black bow (which the pattern on it sort of looked like a spider web) to the white with a black pipe cleaner. The bow was hot glued to the wreath and a glittered black spider was added to the center. The top of the wreath was wrapped with some of the white ribbon and secured with hot glue underneath the top front and the other end was glued to the backside in order to make a hook to hang it. BOO! :)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-68873658745081209302013-10-28T07:54:00.002-07:002013-11-02T00:24:13.829-07:00Halloween Flower Bouquet<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My eight year old daughter went to a Halloween Party the other night so I decided to make a Halloween Bouquet out of silk flowers.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Michael's recently had a great sale on silk flowers so I stocked up a bit. I chose five black Gerbers for the outside of the bouquet and one large purple Peony for the middle as well as some black pumpkin embellishments. I secured the stems together by wrapping them with floral tape, cut the stems with a wire cutter to my desired length and then sprayed them with a light silver glitter. The floral tape was covered with black satin ribbon and the bouquet was finished with a purple bow and a glittered spider to the center of the bow. :)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-501661752133217455.post-70023280553848315752013-10-25T22:47:00.002-07:002013-10-26T05:02:54.148-07:00Go Pats<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We live in the New England area and are big Patriots fans, so I decided to make a wreath to celebrate football season. I went to Pinterest to get some ideas, looked through my leftover materials and this is what I came up with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I had a foam circle wreath that I covered with leftover blue satin ribbon. I then wrapped silver string it and used spare scrapbooking letters to route for our home team. I ran to Michael's and picked up a wooden oval shape, painted and glittered it brown and added the white paint for the laces.</span> <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">GO PATS!</span></div>
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