Our Spot: Holiday Happenings

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Holiday Happenings

Click on the grouping to enlarge.

We have much video to sort through, reformat, and set in a slideshow, but I don't know when that'll get done. But I do have to say my boys got a peddle tractor that they just ADORE! I'll get the pics from my parents and post them! Hope everyone had a nice holiday!

5 comments:

Mark said...: Those are fun Pictures.

Happy Birthday, Old Lady!; January 7, 2009 at 10:48 AM
cupcakefitz said...: We were in Cascade for Christmas too! We've got to meet up there some time!; January 8, 2009 at 9:15 PM
Wendy said...: Fun pictures! Looks like you had a great holiday.; January 9, 2009 at 8:31 AM
Vicki said...: It looks like your family enjoyed the holidays very much. Did Cole get a baby doll for his birthday? I love it!!; January 12, 2009 at 9:33 AM
Tendra said...: What a bunch of great holiday memories. By the way, I saw you tonight and didn't take the opportunity to thank you for the yummy Christmas cookies and adorable card. So sweet of you!; January 13, 2009 at 10:46 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.