12/4/2014 0 Comments Leaf garlandI wanted to make something for fall, without spending money. I had some jewelry wire and shiny tempera paint, so I collected some fallen leaves and pine cones. I laced the leaves together on the wire and painted a few to add shimmer. This project had a few major flaws. 1) I waited too long to collect leaves and they were a bit too dead/ crunched up 2) I couldn't be patient enough to fully paint one side of each leaf, which was my original goal. 3) I wasn't patient enough to lace the leaves so they faced forward. I basically took wire, and poked it once through each leaf and strung them up on my mantle. My daughter politely said it looked "helter skelter" but it was polite for "that looks like some trash, strung across the mantle." I made my oldest (she offered) paint the pine cones, and I made wire hoops by wrapping wire around the stems. She only painted one side (top) which I believe was out of laziness (like mother, like daughter?). Those turned out cute.
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