Pinterest Inspired Crafts

While staying at our family cabin before the Christmas holidays, I was looking for some kind of craft project to do and remembered a couple of things I had seen on Pinterest that I wanted to try and make for myself.  The first project was a Paper Leaves Wreath.


This is the wreath from Pinterest which I love.



Here's my wreath



For my wreath I used grocery bags from the local market and was very limited with the rest of the supplies that were available at the cabin.  Actually, putting together a project with limited supplies at the cabin was part of the fun!

But for the most part I was pretty satisfied with the results and it also kept me busy for about an hour or so while my husband was working on a project outside.  When my husband came in and saw the wreath, he thought I had a pretty clever idea going there until I told him it really wasn't my idea at all. 

Credit given where credit is deserved!  Here's the web site's tutorial for it: http://theredthreadblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/paper-christmas-wreath-tutorial.html

And the second project I wanted to try was a Christmas tree made with branches from the pine trees we have all around the cabin.  

Of course my project was not going to be a beach inspired tree with driftwood like this one I pinned on Pinterest which sells at  http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/sundaebest , but just a simple tree shape made with small branches, pine cones and some hot glue (which by the way had probably been at the cabin since about 1980 or so). This glue was the color of butter!  Ick! I guess it had just gone bad over the years, but it did work,  just not as good as today's glue sticks.  BTW, the glue gun there was probably just as old as the glue!  I guess I shouldn't complain because I did have fun and didn't have to haul a load of supplies from home! 

Making the tree:
To support the horizontal pieces of wood, I glued two pieces together like an upside-down "V", let them setup and then started gluing the pieces across. 

So here's my tree which I really like.  It measures 18H x 14 W.  If you look closely you can see the ugly butter colored glue here and there.  Before we left the cabin I had looked around to find some sort of wood piece to use for a tree base, but no such luck.  Maybe next trip!




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