Easter Topiary

I love this time of year !

This Easter topiary took me all of 5-ish minutes to make.

Gotta love that !Here's what I started with: a bag of Easter grass that I got after Easter last year from 10 cents, a $1.00 foam block, two packs of Glitter Egg Picks for $1.00 each from Dollar Tree and finally my awesome find from Goodwill a cute metal basket I scored for 50 cents. The metal basket was a centerpiece from Edible arrangements . First off I hot glued the foam block in the metal basket. I oped not to take the plastic off the block. . . why ? ? . . because I don't like the 'dusty' stuff that falls off these foam blocks. Next I broke each pick in different spots to vary the height of each one. Than I stuck each pick in the foam block, again varying them in height. After adding the Easter grass. . . Here it is ! Lovin' it on my dining room table. Happy Crafting !

Another Valentines Topiary

I loved my last topiary so much I started looking around for things.

I could use to make another

I had this one block leftover from another project, that I'm hoping

I'll be able to post tomorrow... still waiting for it to dry..

anyhow back to today's little project. I scored and got this cute little glass vase/ bowl from Goodwill for 25 cents, but the opening was a little smaller than the foam block so I trimmed the edges down.. which made a HUGE mess,

so a tip if your going to trim a foam block, do it outside :)

Love these paper shreds, got from Dollar Tree.
I got a little too excited putting it together and forgot to take an assembly picture. But I know you all can figure out what I did. . . after I trimmed the block I tucked it in the middle of the vase and shoved some paper shreds all along the edge till you could no longer see any green foam.

Than I took two packs of these adorable glitter hearts

also from Dollar Tree and stuck them in,

I broke the sticks on some of them so they could vary in height.

I took this picture tonight of it on our Entertainment Center. Love it ! Happy Crafting.

Sweetheart Topiary

While at the 99 cent store this pass week getting supplies to make my sweetheart wreath, I saw this little pack of 3 clay pots and they were so cute I just had to make something with them.

After roaming the store, I found this pack of different size foam balls

and this pack of red shredded paper, grabbed another bag of

Sweethearts and headed home.

I took each ball and painted it red,
just so you wouldn't see any white through the candies.
After a few minutes and a few hot glue burns. I had covered each red ball entirely with Sweethearts and stuck in a small wooden stick.

Next, I put a big blob of hot glue in each pot and stuck the flat end

of the wood stick down into the little hole of the pot.

And wanted very impatiently for it to dry.
After waiting for it to dry, it still started to slowly tilt to the side, so began the dilemma of coming up with a solution to help it stay up.

Than it hit me, I have tons of leftover Sweethearts so I proceeded to shove them in and hot glue them down layer by layer.

After filling in each pot with leftover sweethearts, I added the red shredded paper to the top.I also glued one of the bigger Sweethearts to stick and added it to the pot in the front. After that I glued the three pots together,
adding just a little hot glue on the rim of each pot.

I've just been waiting for a project to come along that I could use this cute spool of ribbon I found in the dollar bins at Target.
After tying a few ribbons under each ball and
one to the front pot, here's my topiary all finished. I really loved how cute this topiary turned out and really enjoy our cute new centerpiece on our dinning room table.

MY VERY FIRST FEATURE :)

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