Our Spot: For My Sister's In Law

Thursday, June 5, 2008

For My Sister's In Law

I have two Sister's in Law who have fabulous camera's, a good eye and take outstanding photos. One of them even does photo shoots like Deb on Napoleon, "Now think of sea horses dancing around your head....I think this is really going to work." J/K Kim, she is a natural light photographer not a head shots photographer. Anyway, my other sister Tami just got a new camera and has been doing a photo a day to get used to it and it's been a lot of fun to check in on her pics, she's zany and writes like a columnist critic, histarical. Anyway I just wanted to fit in with the photo crowd and am inspired so much by the photo's they take. So this is my lucky shot for today.

3 comments:

TamBaum said...: Way better than the junky pictures I put up! Maybe some day we will both be as good as Kim. But I do love my camera, you should totally get one.; June 5, 2008 at 6:41 PM
kg said...: Wow! that's beauatiful and you can see the bee in action! Great shot! What kind of flower is that? Yay for photos...and yes, I think Tami writes like a columnist, I think that is the perfect description. So excited to see you guys!!; June 6, 2008 at 6:42 AM
Diana said...: It's so kind of you highlight the talent that both Jessi and I have. I hope that Kim and Tami don't get offended that your commetn doesn't address their talents :0)haha!; June 9, 2008 at 5:38 PM

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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.