Wire Tree to Hold Alot of Love

 

Tree Bloomin' with Love

Materials
Wire cutters
Low gauge silver wire (or color of your choice), 22 ml
Wire cutters
Balsa wood

Double stick tape

Red heavy-weight paper

Black marker

I used my thrift store find for the base of my tree.

Using low gauge wire (22 ml), measure a 16" length. Do not cut. Instead spool out more wire approx 15 - 18" lengths until you have a bundle that is the thickness of your ring finger.

Twist the middle portion of the wire to form the tree trunk. Next, have an adult clip the ends of the wires using a wire cutter.

separate the top and bottom wires into at least five sections. The top section will become the branches and the bottom the roots. Twist each section and then separate again and twist and separate on until the end of the wire. Use this method for both the top and bottom sections.

Attach your tree to the rock by looping the "root" wires around it and twisting them to each other to secure the tree in place.

Cut a 1" strip of balsa wood. Using a push pin, make a hole at either end to slip a piece of wire through. Hang it from a branch so that it can swing. I just used a piece of cardboard covered with a pretty piece of green paper.

Cut out a heart and write someone's initials in the middle. Glue the heart to the tree as though you carved the initials there. Ta-da!


Click on here and it will take you to the video on how to make one.
http://family.go.com/entertainment/pkg-possibility-shop/#vid2

Vintage Aprons

I've personally had these vintage aprons for 25 yrs. now.  More things just keep coming out to decorate for Valentine's Day. 

Weekend Toga Project For A High School Dance.

Sewed a piece of trim along the top.

Cut a twin bed sheet in 1/2 length wise.



Added a piece of gold trim around her waist. Added gold jewelry to her hair, gold bracelet's. Gold slipper shoes. Oh, this whole thing is held together with pins! Too Funny.



Tah Dah!
My daughter said everyone kept asking if she had bought her Toga. Nope,  just a bed sheet and gold trims, a big sister to help with makeup and hair. And you have yourself a fast and fancy Toga.

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I FINALLY GET IT!! PICASSO AND HIS WORK.

Juan-les-Pins, 1924

Yesterday, my friend and I went into Seattle to the see a landmark exhibition of the work of Pablo Picasso at the Seattle Art Museum. What a "once in a lifetime experience"! Drawn from the collection of the Musee National Picasso in Paris-which holds the largest and most important works of the artist in the world, they lent out 150 paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs to go on tour here in the U.S.. This was all due to the museum in Paris being refurbished.

One of the things I learned, was that the reason why some of his work didn't make sense to me. Like why some of the faces and bodies look different or hard to understand. It was because he wanted the pictures to be 2 dimensional, so half of a face, might be painted straight on, then the other half would be their side view. GENIUS.

As I saw all the different mediums he used and tried, and the history of the world at the time,it all made so much sense! For the first time I understand his wonderful work. My soul has been filled. My appreciation for the saying "he was the most influential artist in the world" has totally sunk into my brain. He could of just painted the old oil and canvas, or drawings that look like a photograph, but he didn't, he went and explored all the different forms of art and created his own style. I have to say I am totally thrilled to finally "get it". There was so much more I learned and understood about his work, but I have not the time or desire to go on. It's like my soul is still savoring what it has been fed, and I don't want to interrupt the feeling or knowledge learned.