Monday, January 18, 2010

Crafternoon Kick Off




This Saturday Me, Michelle, and Kara (another lifelong friend) and I all got together to start our biweekly crafternoons. We meet at Michelle's house (which needs to move 20 miles closer to mine) and do a craft project together. We decided to have one person choose each project and then tell everyone what to buy so that way we can get right to work without going to the store for materials. Well, I chose the first crafternoon project: A Valentine Tree.


Michelle and I became obsessed with seasonal little trees around Halloween time. They showed up at Home Goods and Real Deals and we snapped them up. Once we really looked at them we realized we could easily make them ourselves. Here's what you need:


Large woodsie heart shapes and small ones, brushes, acrylic paint, glitter, and 20 gauge craft wire



A small pot (mine I got for 90cents on Michael clearance over the summer), a branch positioned in the pot with Joint Compound or cement and some moss.

Start by spray painting your pot, I chose red pot color and a pink branch. We let our branches sit in joint compound overnight, but they really could have used up to three days to dry all of the way.


While your pot/branch combo is drying, simply lay your heart pieces out and start painting both sides, and edges.



After the paint has dried, use some fine glitter and Elmers glue and "paint" it on each heart, we only did the front side.
While waiting for your glitter/paint combo to dry, start using wire clippers to cut your 20 gauge wire into pieces. I did each piece about 9-10 inches long. I then twisted it around my branch so that one piece made two branches on the tree. Then, I curled the wire around my finger and released it so it was cute and curly.
After your hearts are dry, hot glue them randomly to the end of a craft wire. I added some randomly to the middle of branches. Then, fill your pot with moss (Dollar Tree) and then hot glue the rest of the hearts onto it so it looks like they fell off the tree and landed there.
Tada...

Hmm... I really need to learn how to rotate pictures... just flip your head sideways- you'll get it!
Total Cost: Pot -$.90, joint compoud-already had, moss- $1 we all shared 1 bag, paint-had, glitter-had, branch- our custodian found them in a riverbed, hearts $2.90 at Joann's for both
Wire- $3 at Walmart- we shared one roll
Per pot cost: about $4
Tomorrow should be busy- 100th day of school, then going to spend our savings on another textbook for Mr. P.
Day 15 Carbfree... fell off the wagon Friday night, got back on Saturday... 5.5 pounds total lost!

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