Our Spot: Merry Christmas!

Dashing through this year
With a simple line or two
Describing the chaos
And crazy things we do (ha, ha, ha)
Our family numbers five
Dane was born in June
We’re still in the same house
We’ve filled up all the rooms…

Oh, we have three boys, we step on toys
We need rub-ber walls
Oh, what fun it is to clean
While dodging flying balls
Busy boys, making noise
We need sound proof walls
Oh, what fun it is to hear
When we get phone calls!
A month or two ago
I thought to write a note
This boyhood memory
Is quite the anecdote
While getting food prepared
I called the boy’s inside
I stopped to take a look
And this is what I spied…

Oh, the boys out back, a rock lifted a crack
And reaching underneath
They were picking something out of it
And biting with their teeth
I called them in, to their chagrin,
Fast on their little legs
Then they confirmed, my stomach churned,
They’re snacking on ant’s eggs!
Oh, these boys! They have no poise
Just curiosity
Oh, what fun it is to know
They’ve survival strategy
We love our boys, they are such joys
We can’t, at all, complain
Oh, what fun to watch them grow, they really entertain!

Love all of us!
Lanson
Amy
Gage 5
Cole nearly 3 and
Dane6mo.

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.

7 comments:

Red Head Family said...: Merry Christmas-glad we are able to catch up after all these years!!; December 20, 2009 at 6:32 PM
THE YOUNG-INS said...: That was cute. I am glad you h ave had a great year.; December 20, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Wendy said...: Cute poem! And I love the picture!; December 20, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Kate said...: I love your poems! So fun! Merry Christmas! :); December 21, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Vicki said...: What a cute way to say Merry Christmas! You always have such fun ideas :); December 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Angie Miller said...: Hilarious.; December 26, 2009 at 10:26 PM
bledsoeblog said...: Cute, cute. LOVE the picture Amy!; January 5, 2010 at 9:54 PM

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Merry Christmas!

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