WHAT? 2 Blogs in one night?!

Yea, well, it was time for an epic fail. :( I found this little gem on Pinterest. It looked SO easy and fast. This late in the holiday game, I love fast....

Let me first say, if you want to try this project, go check out Ellen's blog, Hers are adorable. I think my biggest mistake was the egg shape used on the last wreath (which by the way, is now outstanding in my book) Using a regular circle cardboard on this would have made all the difference in the world. Those eggs are not forgiving during placement so...her way is absolutely the best way.

But here is the documentation of my mess.....first up, the egg shaped cardboard mistake.









Then we have the hot glue sticking the plastic egg "butts" together....

Then, once I had all the first layer of eggs on the cardboard, I used the trick from the previous blog entry about spreading the Tacky glue with a cheap paint brush and then used Ellen's tip for using a pencil to get the grass pushed into the small spaces...

By the time I was adding the second layer of single plastic eggs on here, I didn't even take photos. I could smell the failure, and so I just hurried up, put it together as best as it would go and tied a piece of ribbon. I might have crammed more eggs in the big empty spaces but, I ran out of them so, I am going to run to Big Lots or somewhere in the morning and see if I can find a "Happy Easter" sign of some sort that is small enough to work in this to cover up what a mess it is....it was supposed to be a gift for my son's classroom. I overestimated my ability I think. lol
Here she is, my last mess of the evening. Funny, when I went to go post this photo, it doesn't look nearly as bad as it does in person! HA!

OMG! It's Easter ALREADY?!

OK, so I thought Easter came at the end of April. That's what I get for thinking. So when I realized last night that I need to get my butt in gear for Mason's basket THIS WEEKEND, I spent some time in Pinterest looking for some holiday crafts I may be able to throw together since I was headed to the $1 Store anyway.

I saw this on someone's page...I went back to see it when I sat down to make this, but I couldn't find it again. It was a pin of an Etsy page so I apologize but to be fair, mine is vastly different than the one I originally saw.

So as I grabbed everything in sight at the $1 store, both for his basket, Easter crafts and some ingredients to make his class some treats, I picked up this fairly large egg shaped platter to take them in on.

The wreaths I saw were all circles. As I sat down to try and make mine, I realized I had that huge egg shaped platter that would be a perfect pattern to cut out my cardboard.

So I got them all cut out (I still have another one to make) and sat down with my wire edged ribbon to make my "hanger" and bow. Now once upon a time, I was great with wire edged ribbon but my fingers don't hold as well as they used to so I had to do a little and go do something else, repeat.

After I had that done, I sat with my wreath egg and started taking apart the little Easter ornaments and trying to figure out how to best arrange them. I had toyed with the idea of painting the cardboard first but the one I had seen didn't need it, of course they had regular, old fashioned green plastic grass and I only had the paper kind from the $1 store so....next time I would definitely paint the cardboard first.

Now first I used my hot glue gun and placed a few eggs down. Then I started trying to place this pretty grass around the eggs with my hot glue gun and that was a NIGHTMARE! Finally I got the idea to break out my tacky glue and just use that to coat the background better. Putting a dot here and a dot there was also not a winning solution, so I dug out an old paintbrush and smeared the glue all around the eggs evenly and MUCH easier! 

Once I got this little trick down, the assembly went really quickly and the grass was finally holding down and around all my ornaments quite well. I had these bigger eggs I grabbed and shouldn't have added them since I had the big pink bow but, I wasn't getting rid of that darn bow that cramped my fingers so bad and I wanted to use up my Easter inventory because there is NO WAY I will find any of it next year when I need it so....I am going with tacky for now, but hey, it's a trial run eh?

 Once I looked at it, I decided I could go ahead and add more of the little eggs I still had left, I mean, we are already tacky right? lol
Anyway, this is how it ended up and I don't think it's all that bad for maybe? $7 and less than an hour all told? Hopefully I can get the other one made this evening so I can concentrate on edible Easter goodies tomorrow night....