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Snowman kit

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The snowman ornament kit for a Christmas Wishes Craft.

From left to right:

  1. Naked tongue depressors
  2. Painted tongue depressors. 
  3. One bottle of white paint.
  4. One bottle of pealizing medium for the icy sheen.
  5. Painted tongue depressors with a ribbon loop attached by a glue dot.  The paper covering the top is to keep anything else from sticking to the glue dot.  Also penciled in eyes for placement.
  6. Strips of paper with glue dots attached.  Felt would be nice, too.
  7. Paper noses. (Orange Post-it)
  8. Black felt hats with glue dot on the back.
  9. Buttons with glue dot backing.
  10. Black marker.  Oops!  Not shown.
  11. Finished Snowman.snowman-kit-cropped

Actually I’ve prepainted the tongue depressors so the first four items aren’t in the real kits.  As much as 4-5 year olds would love to paint and use real glue, I’m thinking of the mothers and the ensuing mess.  This is supposed to be fun for everyone!  This is my first time with glue dots so I’m anxious to see how it all works out.

Reasonably rested

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Saturday was spent over the dining room table organizing and assembling some Christmas Wishes Craft Kits.  I got two done.  Just two.

It’s not that I am slow.  I just had to think.  And paint.  And think.  And cut paper.  And think.  And find buttons.  Then ribbon.  And think some more.

Thinking is exhausting.

So yesterday afternoon I took a two-hour nap.

Then I went to bed at 9:30.

This morning I feel reasonably rested.

A 33-cent Pillow

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Last weekend I found some upholstery samples I had from my Mom.  One was a beautiful crewel floral pattern that  I intended to make into a pillow but forgot about it for a few years.  That is until I found it again.

It was simple construction.

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The entire piece of fabric was used for the front.  Cost = Free

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The “wrong” side of another sample was the backing.  The “right” side was blue.  I’m a green person.  Cost = Free

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A zipper was inserted in one of the short sides.  (I purchase zippers in bulk.)  Cost = 33-cents 

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I also used a piece of a flat sheet left over from another project for the pillow liner holding the stuffing.  (You can see some of the blue “right” side in the photo below.)   Cost = Free

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The stuffing was a freshly laundered old mattress pad folded and rolled to fit inside the liner.  Cost = Free

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My 33-cent pillow.

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