Easy Christmas something

I only call it a something because I suppose you could use it for a variety of things. I'm using mine as a centerpiece for my living room table...I think. Anyway here it goes

Supplies..a tray, spray paint, two colors of yarn, foam balls

The tray is from goodwill pick it up half off, you can get the foam balls from Walmart...mine were donated to me by a friend who didn't need them anymore. They are quite expensive so if you have a coupon to Hobby Lobby or somewhere else I would totally use it. When did foam get expensive?

I choose to wrap the first one in a circular motion around a foam ball because I wanted at least one of them to be smooth looking, different texture.

The rest of them started off as a knot and then was wrapped and wrapped until it became the size I wanted it to be. I did use a foam ball for one of them and I do recommend using a foam ball as a base if you don't want or care about using a lot of yarn. This is the left over yarn from my Christmas wreath so I didn't mind...I can only knit one thing, a scarf.

My four balls...(its ok to giggle) on my tray...no pictures of the tray because I did it at ten pm in my front yard with my porch light only.

Arrange your balls..(still giggling?) on your tray as you see fit. I almost think I need a few more for the effect I wanted.

Paired with some candles and its a nice piece, I almost think the tray is too green and that might bug me some to add stripes! or polka dots! Red ribbon stripes! Mod podged paper trees! Oh the possibilities are endless.

Happy Crafting

-Tori

P.s. Pretty sure I'm adding mod podged paper trees made out of Christmas scrap booking paper, I'll post the result later

Christmas Wreath!

So I have seen the yarn wreaths here and there...plus my incredibly talented sister made a super cute gray and yellow one, I knew that I needed to do that next. Originally I was going to make a burlap Christmas wreath but I could never get the red burlap. What I came up with is super cute anyway, at least I think so. (my sister said it was too) Anyway also in this post I actually edited pictures! haha I usually take all pictures on my phone, nevermind that $700 camera sitting in the other room, my android works well doing whatever, and I have an app for picture editing...takes too long to do it on my phone so guess what I'm asking santa for?! Anyway down to business...

I went to hobby lobby with no idea besides yarn that I knew I was going to use. So while winging it I was randomly picking things up and finally something struck me.

Stuff I used: 18 inch wreath form, red/white yarn, peppermint gift tags, one red sign and one hollow cardboard sign, chalkboard paint, foam brush, hot glue, scissors (n i think thats all) oh and white paint pen

wrap your wreath form and wrap and wrap and wrap...this part takes a while, watch a movie

done yet? ok wrap your white in sections around your form, up to you how far apart you want them

get all the way around, tie off and go back the other way, easy to cross over wreath and aim for the bottom of the cross before

like this.

done...not where you want them or not even? best part is you can play around with them until you like what you see.

next I placed everything where I thought I wanted it...

but maybe i was wrong...

nope I was right, then hot glue in place

While wrapping the wreath ( did I mention it took a while) I got bored and painted my first sign

I free handed it, think it looks funner that way...I used a paint pen (see it on the very edge of the picture) pick on up at walmart, best idea ever...eventually I went over this again and added little dots to the corners of each letter

subtle but cuter I thought

attached the sign using two strands of yarn (not a good picture)

stuff for chalkboard sign, never used chalkboard paint before

I had previously added chalkboard paint to the cardboard sign, 4 coats just to make sure I got it right, and then I took my paint pen and made little dots around the edges of the sign. I think I like dots today.

attach with hot glue and DONE!

Just add Chirstmas lights and yay...my front door is green and this doesn't look very green but thats why I made a red and white wreath!

Definitely the longest tutorial type thing I've ever done on here, but I'm pretty proud of my project that didn't only take me 15 minutes.

Happy Crafting!

-Tori