Sunday, May 13, 2012

Mother's Day Crafting


Pepper and I decided to celebrate mother's day by having a craft extravaganza. We brought the craft table up from the basement and laid out our possibilities.

Starting from the lower left corner and going clockwise: The B is for Pepper (spoiler alert-her name's not Pepper). She's going decorate it & take it to college (see below); Wine bottle for wine bottle art (did not get used); Little shelf/organizers we picked up at a yard sale to paint (in progress; pictures to come later); blown out eggs we never dyed from Easter (not used); wool roving (not used); old photos (not used); popsicle sticks (Pepper LOVES popsicle crafting - her house is in progress); broken slate (see below); bird house (see below); wood scrap that I was going to paint with wax paints (not used).





Here's the birdhouse, painted by me, color supervision by Pepper. I hope to post pictures of a little birdie using it.




Painted B for college! Her roommates will undoubtedly be jealous.






First, I put the broken slate pieces back together and then painted a setting sun-type deal.



Then I painted a white tree, separated the pieces back out and hot-glued them on a picture frame.  The end! (For now.)


Mother's Day Gift


My kid made me this for Mother's Day. She was all sneaky about it & pretty much everyone else knew but me. Very very sneaky. =)

Completed wine bottle art

I finally finished the wine bottle art I started 5 months ago. Actually, it's beer bottle art, but whatever. Here it is:




I meant for the elephant to be bigger, so that the trunk would go up the neck of the bottle. Ah well.