First up, we have the wreath- which I made from some cardboard we had saved, along with some super saver yarn that always seems to be handy. Plus some of my leftover ribbon from the St. Patricks day hair ribbons I made the girls.
Out of pocket expense was a whopping $0.
Now for the mantle. I found some of Calebs old wooden blocks in the attic this weekend, so that saved Eddie from having to cut me some wooden letters. I also had some construction paper laying around- so I made some paper roses. I got the tutorial here. The original is for storybook roses, but the construction paper worked fine and dandy, but the lighter book paper would probably be easier to hot glue and manipulate around the stem.
I broke the bank, spending a whole $0.
The awesome printable that I got here was put into a frame that I received as a gift from my wonderful Aunt Cheryl. Normally my little brothers picture resides there, but he took a temporary vacation to my fridge. Don't worry Gabe, I'll put you back.
Then I had some green and cream felt laying around, like I usually do, so I made a shamrock garland. I saw a picture of them somewhere, I'm still trying to find out where, so as soon as I can find it I'll link to it. I know it wasn't a tutorial though.
I was running out of ideas, but I figured I'd better put a pot of gold and a rainbow in there somewhere... So going with the stuff I had around, I got this:
I stole the pot of gold from a Leprechaun, so technically I MADE money.
The pot was an old terracotta pot I had in the garage. I painted it black, lined it with ribbon I had, and made the "buckle" out of card stock and gold paint. Same thing for the coins. I used my cricut to cut a few circles, and then I painted them gold with some paint I had. The "Tree" was on old stick outside, decorated with some shamrock buttons I had with embroidery thread.
The "Rainbow" is just different buttons, thread, pom poms, feathers, and pipe cleaners I had in the colors of the rainbow laying around. The good news is, that now all my "findings" are organized by color. Hooray for St. Patricks day!The back mirror I just painted "Top O the Mornin" in a paint pen.
So that's pretty much what I did all day. Besides you know, running after children. I'll probably tweak it a few times before the 17th, because I'm still randomly staring at it, so that means it's not done, or something is off.
Other then that, we've all been feeling like poo. Oh, and we finally cut Baylees bangs.
We straightened them out after the picture, don't worry.
That's all for now. Eddie got a tooth drilled today, so his face is all puffy and numb still. I really don't know why I'm posting and not sitting next to him poking at it... It's one of my favorite hobbies. :)
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