Our Spot: Cascade Photo (Shoot-out) of Cole

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Cascade Photo (Shoot-out) of Cole

Jan got this outfit at a time when Gage was going through a horse phase. Now Cole is going through the horse phase and LOVES these little pants with the fringe! AND I think I FINALLY found a trick to getting Cole to pose for shots. He was convinced the outfit was a costume and that he was a COWBOY so he "posed" for this shoot-out and I have to say I think I won this one! "Yeah Me!"

2 comments:

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Yes! It is nice to have the girls in school. The teacher is great, the school is small and awesome.

Oh and I just fall in love with Cole's eyes everytime I look at them. So cute!!; October 9, 2008 at 9:37 PM
Michelle said...: Very cute pictures of Cole Amy!; October 13, 2008 at 5:09 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.