You are Sweet Treats

Since my Mops girls (a mom's group I'm in) are so sweet, I decided to make them a treat and I gave it to them at our meeting last week.  Here they are

I put them in little bags with a treat topper from Love from the Oven

I didn't get a good photo of the bags put together, but if you go to Love from the Oven she has some awesome ideas and photos of bags put together! So go to her sight and in-vision what my treats would look like in the bags. I used the bags "A Valentine Treat For Someone Sweet"! Then tell me what you think...ha!

Anyways, if you want to make some...........

Happy Birthday to my Husband

 I'm such a lucky girl to have such a wonderful husband. He's caring, thoughtful, a great dad, and boy does he love his video games:) I blog and do crafts, while he plays his video games...it works out very well! Anyway, I wanted to share a little treat I made for him to have when he wakes up in the morning.  I like to put little things around the house to make him feel special on his birthday.  In college, my roommate put sticky notes around saying nice things about me on my birthday and I thought that was so cool.  So, that is a tradition in our house now.  I will put the sticky notes around the upstairs with nice messages, and then downstairs in the kitchen I'm going to put this little treat container:

Dynamite Treats!  I put M&M's in the middle of each roll.

Want to make one?

Valentine Topiary

Have you ever started on a project with one thing in mind and ended up with something totally different when you were done?  Well this little topiary of mine started out as a decorative ball.  I was going to make a bunch of them and put them in a vase, but then the idea of a topiary came to mind.  So here it is:

I used the cricut cartridge "Straight from the nest" to create the flowers.  If you don't have that cricut cartridge, you could use a flower punch.

To create this topiary:

Styrofoam ball, wooden rod, cotton, tulle, flower pot, white pearl headed pins, flower pot foam

1. Paint your styrofoam ball the same color you plan to make your flowers

2. Punch out all the flowers or use Cricut Cartridge Straight from the Nest flower at 1.0 in.

3. Use pins and poke holes in the flowers

4. Once the paint is dry put flowers and pins in the styrofoam ball

5.Paint rod and flower pot to desired color.

6. Cut rod to height preference

7. Stick rod into styrofoam ball, make sure to hot glue rod and then stick it in

8. Place rod into potting foam (sorry I know it's not the technical term, but the floral foam you use for fake flowers..it's green...) and place it into pot.

9. Place cotton on top of flower foam....I actually used polyfil because that is what I had on hand.

10. Cover with tulle. I hot glued the tulle around the pot.

11. Enjoy!

***This just in......this project was featured on Lil Luna, Decorate to Celebrate, and My Craft Spot!***

Happy Crafting Everyone,

Smiles, 

Jill

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