Our Spot: Happy Birthday Gage!

Friday, October 3, 2008

Happy Birthday Gage!

Gage had a tractor party at "The Maize". We went for a tractor-pulled hay ride, and picked pumpkins! Gage was real excited about the event ALL week. I think that is why he has been a little on the tempermental side. :) (He was just waiting for this day to come.) He was nervous to go on the ride at first but once he heard the engine start, and found it was not SO loud, he settled down. He ended up saying it was his favorite part. Thanks to all our friends for coming we hope you had as nice a time as we did!

5 comments:

Nate / Mary said...: Happy Birthday Gage!!; October 3, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Jessica said...: We just found your blog! Great pictures! Sounds like a fun birthday. Maybe I'll see if Jessica will get me a tractor ride for my birthday!

Ben and Jessica; October 5, 2008 at 9:46 AM
bledsoeblog said...: It looks like you guys had a great time. Happy Birthday Gage!; October 5, 2008 at 2:59 PM
Vicki said...: I love the picture arrangements Amy. How'd you do that?

Mason had a great time there too, thanks for the invite. BTW the pig thank you card is on the fridge, if anyone tries to take it off Mason gets upset. *wink*; October 15, 2008 at 3:24 PM
***Julia C. Greenfield Vanikiotis*** said...: Amy you are like the ultimate scrap-booker. You amaze me!; October 20, 2008 at 8:31 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.