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Friday, January 11, 2008

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Gage has his frist Primary talk this Sunday. He really did a great job at tonight's first two practices but the third is the one we decided to get on tape. However you look at it, fortunately or unfortunatley, the following 50 seconds is what we have to offer you. Turn your volume WAY up.

4 comments:

kg said...: That is so cute! Gage has such his own little personality! I'm glad you got this on camera :)

OI like your new blog layout too!; January 12, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Alyce Dribnak said...: So cute! Brooklynn said he did a good job in church. I'm still laughing.; January 13, 2008 at 7:27 PM
bledsoeblog said...: This video was so cute Amy! I loved it! I will take you up on the "clubbing" adventure any day! Do you think we could get a group from bookclub to join us?!!!; January 15, 2008 at 2:16 PM
Angie Miller said...: My favorite is Amy cracking up in the background.; January 15, 2008 at 2:26 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.