Our Spot: "He was Chubby and Plump, a right Jolly ole' Elf..."

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

"He was Chubby and Plump, a right Jolly ole' Elf..."

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6 mo old and the sweetest little bean. Dane's almost crawling, he sings, " La, la, la..." most of the time these days, and he weighs 19lbs! Yeah, he's an elf all right.

8 comments:

Kate said...: What a beautiful baby! I love his smile! He is so adorable! I think that he looks a lot like Gage.; December 8, 2009 at 6:49 PM
Wendy said...: What a cutie! I love that smile!; December 9, 2009 at 8:54 AM
kg said...: Go Beaves, love that pictures!! Just want to squeeze him! :); December 9, 2009 at 1:29 PM
Red Head Family said...: So cute!! He looks a lot like you Amy.; December 9, 2009 at 2:25 PM
Angie Miller said...: A perfect blend of both your kids!; December 9, 2009 at 4:57 PM
bledsoeblog said...: So sweet to see this little chunk on Thursday! Thanks for coming over.; December 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM
jenny.hawkes said...: Certainly a jolly elf. I can't recall seeing a picture of him where he isn't smiling. He's looking more like his brothers now. Darling boy!; December 11, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Vicki said...: What a happy, adorable, cutie pie you have!!; December 14, 2009 at 10:10 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.