Pipe cleaner flowers

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I have a ton of arts and crafts supplies including a huge bag of pipe cleaners... and I was thinking of an easy pipe cleaner craft to do with Princess R. So I settled on pipe cleaner flowers.

However, all flower ideas I looked online were rather 2-dimensional... bend the cleaner in petal / leaf shapes and you are done, which is not what I had in mind. I wanted the flowers to be more full and have a body, not just shape. So I came up with the above flowers.

They are pretty easy to make.

1. For each flower, you need 3 or more colored pipe cleaners for the flower itself and 2 or more green pipe cleaners for the stem and leaves.
2. You start by rolling the coloured pipe cleaner into a coil on a small cylinerical shape. I used a AAA battery, about you can choose anything.
3. You then take a green pipe cleaner and use it to thread the coloured coils.
4. Then twist the green pipe cleaner and arrange the coils so that they form an round circle... your flower is ready. If you want, you take take one end of the green cleaner and make a small loop and push it in the middle of the flower like I did.
5. You now use the second green cleaner to make leaves if desired.

Enjoy... and do send me pictures of your crafts...

Hoorah! My wall got featured....

Hurrah!

I am so excited... My wall got featured at Patricia's Colours Decor blog...

I love Patricia's blog... Always a feast for the eyes... check it out!

And if you have a wall that you would like to be featured, send her a note...

Again... Hurrah!

Plastic bag flowers

I hate to admit, but I have a ton of plastic bags from grocery shopping...

My intentions are noble... I do try to carry tote bags in my car for groceries... but for some or the other reason once they come in the house, they don't go back in the car for weeks... and right when I am in grocery store, I realize my mistake. But it's too late and I come back home with more and more plastic bags.

And the answer to my wall question is...

Hi there, so last week, I posted my first wall and asked people to guess how I made it...

Well this is how I did it...

My first Wall...

This was the first wall / room that I decorated for Princess R... so this is very special to me.

She was 2 years old this time and we were

Refrigerator Magnets from recycled gift cards

 

Each year, we get several gift cards on birthdays, anniversary and holidays. Each time I am done using the gift card, I feel bad about just throwing the plastic card away since it's not bio-degradable. So recently, I decided to mix reuse with education.

Contest Entry

Well 2 days ago, I posted the cake centerpiece/ gift wrapping idea and today I saw the "Treasure from Trash" contest here.  Now this is what I call fortunate coincidence. Let's see how I do in this contest... Wish me luck.

I will be submitting more entries to this contest next week including a very special one... can't tell you what it is just yet. You will have to wait and see.