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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Dollar Tree Lamb

Did you see the lambs at the Dollar Tree?

I had plans to paint him... and maybe I will someday

For now he is okay here with the promise of Easter!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

DIY... the mantle candles

In total I spent $4.00 at the dollar tree for two coordinating projects

The first is the EASTER EGG TUTORIAL (complete details)

I wrapped the eggs in tissue with glue and then glittered them to look like this

And then there is the candles...

I had a few emails about the candles on my mantle and while I intended to do a "how to" later this week I decided that I would do one today in case y'all want to make these for Easter!

This is a SUPER EASY project that I was inspired to create by my friend Cha Cha...

I went to the dollar tree and picked up two "church candles"

I had some tissue paper from THIS project leftover

I measured out the paper so that it would go around the candle evenly

Spread on some mod-podge, rolled the tissue paper around, smoothed out the wrinkles and let it dry!

Placed the candle on my candlesticks and tied a bow!

Easy peasy!

So the

Eggs were a buck

The tissue was a buck

Two church candles were a buck each

TOTAL: 4.00!

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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

$4.00 Spring Wreath

In my continuing quest to save money I set out to make a wreath for my front door.

I needed it to be simple, bright and cheery and I needed it to last from March 18 to almost Summer...

I started with a grapevine base (I had on hand) and 4 bushes of tulips from the dollar tree ($1.00 each)

I cut the branches off with a wire snips (if you do not have one.. get one they are wonderful)

I then started to glue the stems in a whimsical way around the base

I used tacky glue and find it to be better for me than hot glue for making wreaths

The glue globs will dry

And here it is all done...

I can't wait to put it on our door!

I love the bright colors

I am choosing not to add a bow... because I like the free flow of the wreath!

Sugar Free Present

My Uncle turned 60 yesterday and his parish threw him a surprise party!!

I had no idea what to give him until I was in my favorite store... the dollar tree ~ and saw all the sugar free candy they have.

He is diabetic.

I had a container that I bought for $.25 (actually I bought several of them) from Dollar General last Christmas

I covered it with paper that I printed on my computer and trimmed it with my favorite black ribbon

I also covered some microwave popcorn with this label that I created

I took all the candy out of the packages and placed them in pretzel bags and tied them with a personalized tag and curly ribbon

I also covered the peanuts and nuts with personalized wrappers too

So far so good

It is really packed now!!

And here it is all wrapped and ready to go!

I hope he loved it ~ I am sure he will let me know soon!!

Friday, February 26, 2010

Wrapped Candy!

I belong to my library's friends group and every season all members bring in an item for a basket that is chanced off with the proceeds benefiting childrens programs.

Because this was a spring basket I wanted to include some candy but thought just the ordinary boxes were well... ordinary.