First of all my disclaimer, this is my first posting of a craft a long and I'm a little nervous.
Second, I'm new to the clay pot craft world...so I'm a real mess!
Okay, let's have some fun!
Materials:
You have a choice here. I like things big, so I'm using an 8"pot and a 6" pot
If you like smaller things: 6" and 4" or 4" and 2" will work.
glue to hold them together. I'm using hot glue. Some prefer silicone.
Acrylic paint: White and something pastel
1 yard of 1" thick ribbon to match the pastel paint
foam to fit in the smaller pot
1/2 in dowel that is 8" long
peat moss
4 inch foam ball (smaller if using smaller pots)
10" X 10" piece of fabric to match the pastel paint
1/2 yard of 1/4 in ribbon
thread
here you have another choice. I have purchased a prepackaged, flat ribbon of flowers from Walmart.
But some of you are beautiful painters and may wish to paint the flowers instead.
Bare with me. I can only promise that it comes out nice. So say the post it notes lining my table working out the steps!
I will post the first step late (after 5:30pm Pacific Time) Monday the 17th.
When the paint is dry, turn the large pot upside down. With the smaller pot right side up, glue the bottoms together...
Does that make any sense?
There is a little rim that is unpainted, it will be covered later.
Now you can either glue the ribbon flowers to the top and bottom rim or paint flowers on the rim.
I hope the weekend off helped.
Put the foam in the small pot.
You can either paint the dowel or cut a piece of the 1" ribbon to wrap around the part that sticks out. On ours we put the dowel all the way to the bottom of the pot.
Wrap what is left of the 1" ribbon around the middle of the two pots and tie a pretty bow.
Put the foam ball on the dowel.
Do you remember me having to chase down my daughter last week? Well as a punishment for putting me behind I made her paint my pot for me...she had such a good time she's doing the craft a long with you! So "my project" has become her project! I need to pick better punishments!
Okay. Take the fabric and put a running stitch about 1/2 an inch in and tug it tight on one side. Tie it.
Run another stitch about 1 to 2 inches in from the opposite side. Pull it to a pucker, but not tight. Tack the 1/4 inch ribbon to each side of the brim. You've made a bonnet. Place it on the foam.
Put the peat on the top of the foam. In looking for my peat I found little roses, so we used those.
There's your prarie garden lady.
I forgot to tell you to use the rest of the 1" ribbon as a bow in the middle. But that's it.
Here's our picture:
Attachment 785
I am soooo sorry.
I had been home for literally 10 minutes when the phone rang. My daughter was supposed to wait for her friend to be done with baseball practise, then they were going to youth together. Her friend was calling, nearly hystarical, because she couldn't find my daughter anywhere (she had been sitting in the bleachers). So I told her to check all the bathrooms and the front of the school (it was raining, so I thought she may have gone there to get out of it) and call me back if she didn't find her...well she didn't find her.
So I grabbed DS#2 and headed for town. Almost there I had a thought and had DS#2 call DS#1 and DH (who stayed home in case she called) and had them make some phone calls. Got to the school, looked around my self. Had DS check in with home....
She had gotten tired of waiting so she went to youth. She "tried" to tell her friend she was leaving...
We caught up with her at the youth meeting...After I took her friend for coffee and a cookie
Ugh. So now it's 9:30 pm PST and I'm just posting the first instruction....
Fortunately it's really easy.
Paint the rim of each pot with the pastel color. Paint the rest of the pot with the white.
See you tomorrow... I really need a shower and a cup of tea...teenagers
Linear Mode
