seeing spots and dots

 
I really meant to be here Friday with my felty trees, but I wound up dog sitting Ainsleys' puppy Frank, Thursday through Saturday.

Now I know why three dogs in one house requires a kennel license... A few accidents, someone threw up twice, (not me) but hey, we all survived. My dogs were exhausted and so was Frank by the end of his stay. It was a very quiet weekend around here after Franks went home Saturday afternoon-- my dogs just laaaayed around the house all day, looking at me like geeez, I couldn't have chased Franks around the house one more time-- my paws are killing me.

Anyway,

 
The trees turned out simple. Very simple. I'm thinking of calling them vintage minimalist holiday cone decorations? Ya think?

 
(Terrible photos, I don't know what my problem was.)

I had so many ideas for my trees... they started out with ruffles, that wasn't working, so then I tried varigated shades of creme strips of wool. That was better. Then I fiddled and fiddled with ribbons and holly-- that wasn't happening either.

 
So the trees wound up with only floaty white berry dot sprays.  

I'm wondering if it had anything to do with what I saw on my Friday morning walk before I started working... (whoever you are that took the time to paint polka dots on the fire hydrant-- thumbs up.)

 

Or maybe it had something to do with babysitting Frank.

 
This is one crazy little weiner dog, btw.

 

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So if you happen to have a strange desire to make yourself some vintage minimalist holiday decorations, here's how:

Tacky glue five inch square pieces of creme flannel to cover the Styrofoam cones. While the glue is drying, cut up long strips of about 1 1/2" wide pieces of felted sweater wools. Don't worry about the length, just cut the strips as long as you can. If you have pinking scissors, use them for cutting the strips. (It looks cool.) Hot glue the strips to the flannel-covered bases, cutting the strips to fit. Don't worry about making a seam anywhere on the tree with the wool edges, just randomly join seams for a randomly joined seam look :) (Don't you love my directions?) Then hot glue assorted white berries and... Ta da!

(Always say, "Ta Da!" when you're finished. Howey Mandel taught me this on Ellen after doing magic tricks. He said always say, "Ta Da!" at the end of anything-- people are then more impressed with what you've done. I thought it was good advice.)

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Okay, off to make more seasonal holiday decorations to fill gift shops with assorted seasonal holiday decorations and provide you with further lame-o blog posts :)

Happy Monday to you! XOKelly 

 

Comments

[Julie]

I love your tone-on-tone trees! Very serene and pretty! Like a quiet snowy day! :)

That little weinie dog had a blast at your place, sounds like! How funny.

Red fire hydrants are always more cheery than the yellow ones we have in our area. And polka dots?? Brillient idea! Hope it catches on!

[Julie]

Brilliant. Now I feel much better having corrected my spelling error. ;)

[Maria]

I think your trees came out really pretty! I like the soft white and the pearly glow. They have style! :)
Puppies...oh my.

[Ainsley]

Mom what a cute picture of Frank! Thanks for taking such great care of him :)

[Brenda Just a bed of Roses]

I love the name Vintage Serene for the trees...see a little brainstorming going on here.

Glad you were able to have creative thoughts after or while DOG sitting...wow, three dogs.Sounds exciting though. They are going to beg you to do it more often (the dogs, the kids) Cannot wait to see what you brought in! Tis the season for sure!

[cindy geilmann]

You are so brave to Dog sit. And, I think your trees a beautiful. The cutest new christmas thing I've seen this year.

big hugs
cindy@stitches