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DIY Moss Door Hanger

Are you surviving Daylight Savings? We know it’s tough, but it also means that Spring is closer than ever! To celebrate its arrival, we created this moss door hanger. Here’s how to make your own…

Supplies: moss round, wooden letters, felt, scissors, ribbon, and hot glue.

Directions:
1. Attach wooden letters to the moss round using hot glue. Be sure to press each letter down firmly until the glue cools completely.
2. Trace the word “Spring” onto a piece of paper or print out the word in a font you like. Cut it out and use it as a template for a medium shade of pink felt.
3. Cut the word out of the medium pink felt and glue it to a piece of light pink felt. When the glue is set, cut around the word, leaving a 1/4″ border.
4. Attach the felt to the moss using more hot glue.
5. Flip over the door hanger and attach ribbon to the back using hot glue. To make it extra sturdy, glue a piece of cardstock to the back of the moss first. Then Glue ribbon to the cardstock.
6. Hang and enjoy!

How are you celebrating Spring’s arrival? If you’re looking for more inspiration, check out Vicky Barone on Instagram!

Tags DIY, door hanger, felt, happy, moss, spring, wreath

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DIY Felt Tulips

Post author By vickybarone
Post date March 10, 2016

Spring is suddenly here (well, almost!), and we are so thrilled! To celebrate, we’re sharing some easy felt tulips that you can turn into a garland, a pin, a bookmark, or anything you’d like!

Supplies: felt, scissors, and glue!

Directions:
1. Cut a tulip shape out of a darker piece of felt.
2. Cut another tulip shape in a lighter shade of the first color. Make this piece slightly smaller than the first.
3. Cut a leaf shape out of a piece of green felt.
4. Use hot glue or tacky glue to glue the pieces together.
5. If you are making a garland, flip the tulips over and attach string to the backs of each using hot glue. Hang and enjoy!

How are you celebrating Spring? We’d love to hear!

Tags DIY, felt, garland, spring, tulips

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3 DIY Bird Feeders

Now that it’s finally feeling like Spring, we are noticing our bird friends are back! To encourage them to stick around, we made three different types of DIY bird feeders to treat them to dinner.

Peanut Butter Bird Feeder
Supplies: toilet paper roll, hole punch, twine, a knife, peanut butter, and bird seed.

Directions:
1. Cut two holes into the top of the toilet paper roll with a hole punch.
2. Thread the twine into the holes and tie two knots.
3. Using a knife, cover the roll with peanut butter.
4. Roll the peanut butter covered tube in bird seed until it’s fully covered.
5. Hang in a tree from the twine.

Gelatin Bird Feeders
Supplies: 1 gelatin packet, bird seed, water, cooking spray, cookie cutters, a cookie sheet, wax paper, plastic straws, and twine.

Directions:
1. Line the cookie sheet with wax paper.
2. Arrange cookie cutters on the cookie sheet and spray with cooking spray.
3. Cut up a plastic straw into four or five pieces.
4. In a saucepan, stir 1 packet of gelatin into 1/3 cup of water.
5. Turn burner on to medium heat and stir constantly until the gelatin simmers. Turn off heat.
6. Stir 1 cup of bird seed into the gelatin. Let cool five minutes.
7. Spoon the bird seed into the cookie cutters and press with your fingers to make sure it’s in every corner.
8. Insert a piece of straw into each cookie cutter to make a hole for the twine.
9. Put the cookie sheet into the fridge for 1-2 hours.
10. Once the shapes are hardened, carefully pop them out of the cookie cutters and tie twine through the hole.

Orange Bird Feeder
Supplies: 1 orange, a knife, bird seed, wooden skewers, twine.

Directions:
1. Cut an orange in half and remove the fruit from the peel.
2. Poke a skewer through each orange peel half.
3. Tie twine to each end of the skewer.
4. Fill orange cup with bird seed (if the cup starts to tip, remove some bird seed until it is steady).
5. Hang in a tree from the twine.

These bird feeders make great projects for kids. They will love looking out the window to see the birds enjoying their yummy snacks. Enjoy!

Tags bird feeder, DIY, fun, Kids, spring

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DIY Tissue Paper Flowers

Happy First Day of Spring! If you’re having a dreary start to your Spring Equinox like we are, maybe some flowers will brighten up your day!

We made these tissue paper flowers using the same method used to make these tissue paper pom poms. Instead of fluffing up the paper on both sides to make a globe shape, we pulled the paper upwards only to create a flower.

Supplies: tissue paper, scissors, floral wire.

Directions:
1. Stack 5-7 pieces of tissue paper (ours were 6″x6″ squares) and fold it up accordion style.
2. Twist the floral wire around the middle of the folded tissue paper and create a “stem.”
3. Cut each end of the accordion into a semi circle shape. This will create the scalloped edges of the flower.
4. Holding the stem in your hand (similar to picture two above) carefully pull each sheet of tissue paper up and away from the bunch. Repeat this until all of the pieces are separated.
5. Add your tissue paper flower to a vase!

You can use all kinds of colored tissue paper to create a rainbow of flowers and even mix colors within one flower. Cutting different shapes into the ends of the accordion other than a semi circle will also create an array of different types of flowers.

We hope you have a happy first day of Spring!

Tags DIY, flowers, spring, tissue paper

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Things I Love: Flower Crowns

Post author By vickybarone
Post date July 23, 2014

1. Paper Flowers | 2. Yellow and White
3. Fresh Flowers | 4. Bridal Headpiece
5. Baby’s Breath | 6&7. Spring Flowers

We have been seeing the most beautiful flower crowns all over the Internet, from buy to DIY and we wanted to share some of our favorites! Floral headpieces make the perfect wedding day accessory or rainy day activity! Which one is your favorite?

Tags DIY, Etsy, flower crown, spring, summer

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Things I Love: Air Plants

Post author By vickybarone
Post date May 12, 2014

one | two | three | four | five | six | seven

How cool are these air plant and their containers? We are loving this new foliage and how versatile it is. We hope you enjoy these seven creative ways to display your own air plants (link number two can teach you how to grow them!).

And if you’re looking for more information about air plants, you can find some here!

We hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day yesterday! We are so grateful for all of the lovely ladies in our lives. 🙂

Tags air plants, DIY, paint, plants, shells, spring, wine corks

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Things I Love: Spring Flower Arrangements

Post author By vickybarone
Post date April 7, 2014
1 Comment on Things I Love: Spring Flower Arrangements

This rainy day calls for some Spring flowers. Here are some simple and creative ways to decorate your home with fresh blooms. Using things like recycled containers and fruits adds an unexpected twist to a simple arrangement.

We hope you enjoy your rainy Monday and don’t forget: April showers bring May flowers!

Tags flower arrangements, flowers, spring

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Things I Love: DIY Spring Wreaths

Post author By vickybarone
Post date March 21, 2014

Spring is officially here! We are so excited for all things Spring, including a new wreath for our front door! Here are 8 wreaths you can make yourself (including ours from last year!). Enjoy!

Tags DIY, diy decor, felt flowers, flowers, spring, things i love, wreaths