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Monday, June 6, 2011

What I’ve Been Up To

among the many other daily “life” responsibility stuff!!!  Geez, life sure does have a way of getting in the way of craftiness…LOL!  But, with the “darling’s” 4th b-day right around the corner, I have been a party planning fool.  This year’s them is Dr. Seuss, and since the Seuss Family remains pretty tight with the licensing issues, it’s darn hard to find ready-made commercial décor.  So what’s a crafty momma to do?  In my case that means make every one of my ideas a reality…lots of paint, hot glue, hunts for refrigerator boxes, begging the DH [ok…maybe I didn’t have to beg too much], sewing…blah blah blah!  So, here’s a look at what I have been working on…I’ll post an update closer to the party date because there are many more projects planned!

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Some of the characters…The [headless] Grinch hanging over Horton is for the Pin the Heart on the Grinch game I have planned.  Behind Horton is Nick, Sally, The Cat in the Hat, the Barbaloots, and the Lorax.

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Who knew that when you run paper streamers through the sewing machine it gathers them so perfectly!  I then used the streamers to cover the hats [made from poster board] and the piñata [also made from poster board].  It really added some dimension!

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The beginning of hat construction

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One hat completely finished…there are 4 total!

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The piñata….it was just about finished in this photo!  And so much easier than the paper mache piñata that I made last year!!!  Highly recommend this technique. 

Here’s a link the video if you’d like to see how to do it:

It’s all in Spanish, but if you watch it a few times, you should get the idea [I do not speak Spanish].  Don’t really know if I followed the directions to the letter, but I took the idea and ran with it and it turned out pretty good!

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The beginning of the birthday banner [I was not supposed to be making this – someone else was, but it turns out the the boutique that was going to do it was a SCAMMER!…so I added this back into my to-do list!]…should be able to finish it soon and check it off my long list of projects!

Enjoy!  I’ll show you more once a few more weekends pass and I have more time to work on it…must build Truffula Trees soon!

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