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Crafty post
Nov. 10th, 2013 05:53 pmI made my mother a birthday present, a tree because that's what I've been working on recently and in a tea cup because she's decorating her dining room to look like a tea house.
Forgive the sideways-ness. The turned themselves when I uploaded them. I can't recall this ever happening before. Anyway:
That took forever and was loads of work (the bead leaves added so much weight that the tree could no longer stand up, so I had to reinforce the truck with steel and then cover it up. I needed something that was faster, so using the "Rasputin" method I made this:
To show the difference in size (and therefore time):
(sorry for the fuzziness, none of the two tree picture turned out)
The wire for this little guy was wrapped around an Altoids box. He's going to go to my daughter's boyfriend's parents along with some homemade vanilla. The latest one I made (no pics yet) had beads strung on it before it was made, which I really like, but a small root system, which turned out to be a real hassle.
Forgive the sideways-ness. The turned themselves when I uploaded them. I can't recall this ever happening before. Anyway:
That took forever and was loads of work (the bead leaves added so much weight that the tree could no longer stand up, so I had to reinforce the truck with steel and then cover it up. I needed something that was faster, so using the "Rasputin" method I made this:
To show the difference in size (and therefore time):
(sorry for the fuzziness, none of the two tree picture turned out)The wire for this little guy was wrapped around an Altoids box. He's going to go to my daughter's boyfriend's parents along with some homemade vanilla. The latest one I made (no pics yet) had beads strung on it before it was made, which I really like, but a small root system, which turned out to be a real hassle.
