Saturday, May 17, 2014

Making your own Easter Baskets


 Easter Baskets with YARN! Yes, belive it! You do not need much. So my friend posted hers on FaceBook and I was so intrigued and an aww.. so I had to do it myself. I was going to do it with my girls but seemed like Easter krept up on us faster than I thought. I did this on the Friday before and finished at almost midnight. I am so glad I did not have the girls do this, it was very messy and the first one took for ever to get it completed. I got 2 balloons and blew them up as big as I could. I then looked at several ways people put these together. Someone used mod podge, and I had some but that is very expensive to be using. So then I googled glue or some kind of hardening agent.. The thing I found and found it pretty quickly was called pinata glue- cheap! I ended up using flour and water. NO measuring just make it pretty liquidy. I through the yarn all in the mix. The thing is it will get knotted up if you are not careful.

 This did take me an hour to do the first one and then once I got the handle on it the 2nd time aroud and so that one took me about 45 min. All you do is just go around the balloon over and over again. I went from top to bottom and then around it. One thing I did not learn and you will have to 
 Learn for yourself is the mere fact most of the yarn gathers at the bottom and then when you go to have it stand up, it will not stand! I added feet to mine and one of them stood up funky!!

 I went to Michaels and found these flowers that are clips, they were .99 each. They are clips so I can take them off and the girls can use them for whatever they want to after. For me it took 2 days to dry... I cut the face open on Sat night and added the ribbon on the edges. Not to bad and cheaper then buying a regular basket!!



Thank you to a dear friend of mine, Katy Bruckner for this amazing idea!! 


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