Arts-and-crafts with ideas from Shusters
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It’s a “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”, today and tomorrow, especially here in New Mexico with 3 digit heat & hot blowing wind. Getting started doing creative and fun projects will be a big help in getting us contentedly thru this heat. I’ll be working with natural products using a wide range of native & exotic materials, making garlands, wreaths, & doing silk flower arranging, to help decorate your home & bring a sense of accomplishment to yourself. Come & join me for FUN in the SUN?
Before getting started lets go online to www.schustersoftexas.com for all of our wholesale supplies and ideas for Home Arts Crafts. With school out for the summer, let us center our attention toward creative and fun projects easy for children. I haaave this in mind, using Ghostwood sticks, pinyon cones, assorted natural pods, & Austriaca pinecones. Our step-by-step instructions begin with a cut-out corrugated base. Insert a photo into a large pinecone so that it stands up straight, set onto the base, arrange the Ghostwood sticks& natural pods around it. Fix everything in place with glue (I like Weldbond). When the arrangement is to the childs liking, trim the base as desired. Quality time spent with happy children, with a sense of pride for a job well done.
Another craft idea easy for children to make is to use 2 of the 12” cinnamon sticks, snipping off one stick at the end to 9”. Approximately 4” from the top of the 12” stick, center the 9” stick, attach it by wrapping with natural raffia. Glue this SMELLS GREAT Cross to a small upside down 2-3/4” clay pot, inserting the bottom tip of the cross into the hole on the pot. At the base glue preserved feather flowers in mango & marmalade. Attach a stick on label with a bible verse printed on it, around the bottom rim of there pot. While you’re creating you could tell bible stories or sing songs as you work step-by-step. This would make a great Bible School project, too.
Send the children out to play; it’s adult time, a time for capturing methods for easy-to-create floral crafts, a time for creative & fun projects, with step-by-step instructions. Select a gold tone, 6”by 8” (self standing) picture frame, with an oval mat. Cover inside back part of frame with red velvet. Glue a 1-1/2” Japanese Pectin flat sea shell as the base for this mini floral, keeping the rounded part at the top. Select 3 golden button flowers in Mango, approximately 19 star flowers in yellow, natural wild oats, natural broom blooms. Begin arranging (working back to front) using the natural wild oats as the tallest part, approximately 4-1/2” at the peak, fanning out & tapering to 3” on the sides. Center the natural broom blooms (not as tall as the oats) keeping them at different lengths, next add the yellow star flowers (pulling 3 toward the top, 7 to the left, 3 down close to the top of the shell, pulling up (6) more & mix with the oats on the right side), finish by adding 3 golden button flowers on the very top left of the shell with one sitting above the two. You want the entire arrangement (including the shell) approximately 5” tall & 3” at the widest part. Work with the arrangement until you are pleased with yourself for a job well done. Find a special place in “Your Room” to set your free standing masterpiece.
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