Our Spot: Riverdance and Gino's

Friday, January 18, 2008

Riverdance and Gino's

Thanks to my Mama's I was decked out for a date to the final tour of Riverdance!

We went to Gino's in BODO and then over to the Morrison Center for some fascinating entertainment. I couldn't sit still, I think Irish Folk Dancing runs through my veins. I just love the music, athleticism, and grace of this particular style of dance. It was the second time I've seen it and I was just in awe as the first time. Love it! Thanks Lans, great Christmas present! and thanks Mom and Jan for the birthday gifts, such fun!

4 comments:

Angie Miller said...: YOU LOOK SO GORG!; January 18, 2008 at 5:18 PM
kg said...: Sounds like an excellent evening...you look fab :); January 19, 2008 at 8:58 PM
bledsoeblog said...: NO FAIR, so much fun an excitement! Love the hair! I wish my hair grew as fast as yours!; January 21, 2008 at 6:52 PM
Ruby said...: Amy!!! I am so glad I found you! Sara found my blog last night, and through hers I found Jessica's and then yours. You look amazing! My heart rate is through the roof I am so glad to get in touch with you again. How is primary? We are in Springville now. Kevin is still working for Kleinfelder and is in school at BYU for his PHd.; January 23, 2008 at 12:55 PM

Spotlights

Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.