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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter/Spring Wreath-redo

Happy Easter guys!!

I've had 2 children down with strep this week.....no fun at all, because it's both my girls.

Sydney got it Tuesday & missed 3 days of school & took Michaela to the Dr yesterday and yep now she has it too. I'm crossing my fingers that Jackson & Landon don't get it.

So Easter will be celebrated with Amoxil-poor guys.

Here is my latest crafty decor piece-finished before the sickness crept in the house

I wanted to quickly post my Easter/Spring Wreath before Easter is gone.
I saw a wreath I fell in love with over at the adventures of nick and jessica but there was no tutorial to go along with it so here is what I did:

First I started with a winter wreath from Target I've had for 3-4 years and
I wanted to update it for the Spring.

I used
an old wreath
plastic eggs
latex paint
foam brushes
paper plate
small paint brush
raffia

First I removed the berries & frosted sticks that were glued into the wreath.

So it looked like this

Then I took 3 oops paint samples(.50 each woohoo!) that I had purchased from Home Depot.
There was brown, blueish gray, & a cream color paint.

I painted 1 layer of solid color on each of the eggs with a foam brush & placed them on a paper plate to dry over night. You will get paint on your fingers btw.

Then I repeated that process again, touching up any spots that had dried to the plate & peeled away.

At this point I thought all of the paint would end up peeling off and revealing the colored, plastic eggs beneath.
I decided to keep going and just see how things turned out. I suppose if I had more colors of spray paint on hand I would've tried that as it would have eliminated the peeling of the latex paint.

Then I was ready for my accents,

all I did was dip the narrow, wood end of my thin paint brush into an opposite color and either put dots or

just swept back & forth over the egg, depending on the look I wanted.

I left a few solid, & some I even went back and put some more paint of the 3rd color in the same manner.

I really love how these were looking!

I took pieces of raffia and started weaving it through,

piece by piece into my wreath.

Once I achieved the look I imagined with the raffia, it was time to add some eggs!

I carefully opened the eggs and placed a piece of raffia at the hinge and snapped it back tightly.

I tied the raffia with the egg attached on to the wreath, spacing as desired.

I thought the opening of the wreath was a bit too open & bare, so I added a cluster of eggs.

I did this by attaching 1 egg to the raffia, as described above,
making sure it was in the center of the piece of raffia.

Then I crossed the raffia & added 2 more eggs in the same fashion. and tied that to the wreath, leaving some length in the raffia so it could hang freely.
I took the extra length of the raffia (after I tied each egg to the wreath)
and weaved that through the wreath as well.

Finally I took a bunch of raffia and just tied a bow at the bottom of the wreath

and
TaDa....

I was going to add some purple silk flowers but didn't have any on hand, then thought a purple bow but since I have not learned how to make a bow from ribbon yet
I opted for the raffia.

Very earthy and a completely different look from what I started with.
Before:

And After:

And see how it fills that empty spot over the mantle so well =D

Do you like it?

~Iffy~

Partying with

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Crafting Kiddies Sunday #1 ~ Easter Egg Garland

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This past weekend my 2 older kiddies & I had a little craft time together.

It was great, and they really enjoyed it so we may have to make it a weekly thing around here =D

This is one of 2 crafts we tackled.

Easter Egg Garland.

I have been making lots of trips(which the Mr. loves) to Lowes & Home Depot lately, so picking up paint chips was no problem at all.

I came across the idea from Modern Parents Messy Kids. Check out her tutorial there.

This is a super easy & fun Easter project to do with the kiddies.

Here's what you will need:

paint chips(assorted colors)

scissors

waxed linen cord

pencil(not pictured)

something sharp to poke the holes in the paint chips(I used a protractor)

oh and kiddies of course

First, I drew an egg shape on one of the paint chips & cut it out.

I used this one as my stencil & tossed it once all the eggs were traced as you don't want pencil on the edges of your garland. (I traced on the backs of the paint chips too btw same reason)

Once they were all cut out(which I did so they would be more egg shaped & consistent in size),

I then punched 2 level holes through the front of the egg.

I took a piece of the waxed linen cord and tied a double knot at the end.

You thread each egg the same by pushing the cord up through the back, across the front & back down the other hole to the back.