Candy Cane decor

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cannycaneI made a candy cane decoration out of empty paper towel tubes. It was harder than I thought it’d be to make the rounded crook of the cane. It took a few tries, but I figured it out and finally got one to came out fairly adequate.

Now on to my next project… whatever will it be…

I hope your week is filled with success
and Happy craftings!

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Flower Pen – Mixed Medium

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I was in search of a project to do and went looking through my idea files. I came across this flower pen picture my Bff had sent me some years ago.
The flower pen is made of silk flower/leaves, floral tape, ink pen, clay pot, some filler and what appears to be a grassy filler.flwrpen08It seemed an easy craft, but I didn’t have any floral tape nor a small clay pot. I thought about it for a second and realized that I could use polymer clay to wrap the pen in and sculpt a clay pot and stone fillers.

It was fun to make. My clay pot isn’t perfect and neither is the clay wrapped pen, but I think it turned out okay for my first ever flower pen.flwrpnI was going to put some green raffia over the top of my sculpted stones for fake grass, but I liked the look of the stones and decided not to cover them up.

What do you think?
Should I cover the stones or leave them bare?

Happy Crafting!

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November Tomatoes

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tomato1With the first cold night, I covered my volunteer Cherry Tomato vine with cheese cloth. Until Tuesday evening, I left the cheesecloth on the tomato vine 24/7. I checked the tomatoes and was delighted to see they’re turning. It won’t be long until we have some fresh tomatoes in November.tomato4I’m going to leave the cheese cloth half-off of the vine until the weather turns cold again.

I figured it up and this is the second year on the volunteer tomatoes in that small bed, so it’s a wonder that the vine grew healthy at all. I hope the tomatoes have a good taste to them.

I am beyond tickled about these November tomatoes.
What a rare treat they are.

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge – Transmogrify

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2016 WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge
~Transmogrify~

“To change in appearance or form,
especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.”

wpc-transmogI’m not sure if this totally qualifies as Transmogrify, but here it is for your perusal.

“A tree was made into paper and then was printed on and made into a catalog.
I folded the pages of the catalog to transform it back into a tree: an ornamental one, but a tree, none-the-less.”

 Wishing you all fun with the WP photo challenge!

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