Thursday, January 3, 2013

Twig Picture Frames

This was one of the things we made and gave away as christmas presents.  December can be a quiet month of blogging for me and this is one of the reasons why, I don't want to blog about the gifts we've created until I give them away.  

So I went in Amy and Tom's backyard and collected twigs.  They have lots of them.  Lots of twigs.  


Then I loosely bundled them and wrapped floral wire around them until it became fastened.  


It's hard to see with the table cloth underneath the frames but here are two, assembled.  


I bought two different ribbons to wrap around the frames.  



Then I just wrapped a length of ribbon around the floral wire and hot glue it down.  You could get pretty creative with the ribbon.  




The almost final look.  I took wide shimmer ribbon and placed it across the frame completely, for the backing to hold a photo.  I just now realized I didn't take a photo of that though.  


It was so easy.  I made 8 or 9 in no time at all.  Next time I'm at my mom's, I'll take a photo of hers, she's already got it hanging up.  

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

DIY wrapping paper

These are the kind of things we sit around and do at my house.  We had plenty of wrapping paper.  So we utilized it.  










And I didn't have to buy any christmas wrapping paper.  And I have more for next year!


Grrr

I can't post.....