Our Spot: Our Three Sons

Friday, June 5, 2009

Our Three Sons

Can you guess who is who?

8 comments:

Sara said...: Holy moly they are all completely identical!! I think it goes Dane, Gage, Cole.
Whether I'm right or wrong, CONGRATULATIONS on your new baby boy!!! SO happy for you guys.; June 5, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Michelle said...: I have no clue, but CONGRATULATIONS YOU GUYS! That's so exciting he's finally here!; June 5, 2009 at 9:09 PM
Vicki said...: CONGRATULATIONS!! See all that worry about being induced and you didn't even need it. Your boys all look alike, but if I were to guess I'm with Sara, Dane, Gage, Cole. :) :); June 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Alyce Dribnak said...: CONGRATULATIONS!! My guess is Dane, Cole then Gage. But I also think it could be Gage, Cole then Dane. I give.... :); June 6, 2009 at 1:34 AM
JD said...: Congratulations! Whichever one he is, he is cute. They are all cute. I'm not sure about the outside two but I think the middle one is Gage??? Can't wait to meet him.; June 6, 2009 at 8:06 AM
Brooke said...: Congratulations! Such great news! I'd say those 3 little baby boys are definitely related. :); June 6, 2009 at 8:47 AM
Angie Miller said...: Would it be hilarious if they were three pics of Amy at birth?; June 9, 2009 at 5:22 PM
bledsoeblog said...: So sweet, so tricky! I think the order goes Dane, Cole and Gage! He is so sweet! Congratulations!; June 13, 2009 at 7:30 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.