Music Covered Vase

 In case you didn't see my remote crate from Monday it is here.  I need something to go on the other side of the cabinet from it and I wanted some color so this is what I came up with.

I had paper flowers that I made a couple of years ago for entirely different project that is going to happen now since we are moving in the next few months.  The directions that I used are here.  I painted them red, the painting was probably the most time consuming part of the entire project.  Then I glue the flowers onto wood skewers that I painted green.

Onto to making the vase.  I used a cardboard box that I had laying around the house and cut four matching pieces.

Then using packing tape I taped them into a square.

I also taped a bottom onto it.

My son loved this part I Mod Podge'd chunks of sheet music onto the vase I had made.  He stuck the pieces on for me.

When it dried completely I added the flowers and some moss on top.

Here it is all completed.  I'm trying to decide if I'm going to put some fabric underneath everything or not.

Firecrackers

My mom came to visit for a couple of weeks and brought a set of cut dowels for me to make these firecrackers.  They made these for a Relief Society activity one night.

Season Blocks

Last year before we moved, I made blocks that had all of the seasons on them, so then all I have to do is turn them for the next season.

I did these way before I had my Cricut so they took a lot longer then they should have.  I traced out all of the letters off of the computer screen, then onto card stock paper and cut them out.   After gluing the letters to the paper I then mod podge them onto the blocks and let dry!  Have fun making some.

Magazine Holders

I have been wanting to make some of my own magazine holders for a long time.  I have seen ideas using cereal boxes, and other stuff.  We were cleaning the house the other day and I saw a one of those flat rate boxes waiting to go out to the trash, I thought why not use that and I can get two of them!

The next thought was what do I actually want to cover them with, I looked at my scrapbooking paper and my fabric there wasn't anything that was really jumping out at me.  Then my amazing husband mention why not do what you did with the music box from Here  I looked through my music for more copies that I made and should have destroyed and began tearing it into pieces.

I drew out what I wanted them to look like on both sides of the box. Then began to cut along the line, I would suggest to use an utility knife, we have one but it doesn't have a blade right now, so I had to use scissors, either way be careful!

This is after I cut them.

I got out my torn pieces of music, mod podge and brush.  I decided to start on the edges first I did both of them at the same time, so allow the mod podge to dry on one while I worked on other.

I didn't go very far down inside because I figured that it would be covered by magazines or what I decide to put in them.

I then continued to cover both them completely with the music and then one last coat of mod podge to seal everything.

I didn't check before I did it to see if it fit the magazines exactly but I'm okay with it, one of them will have my magazines and the other will have other stuff but I still love how they turned out.



I'm linking up at these parties:



Everything but kitchen sink link party

Lil' Luna Link Party

Music Covered Box

I had this box for years, but it was Minnie mouse riding an unicycle on a tightrope. I bought it when I was a teenager for some strange reason. I was cleaning some things out with my sheet music after graduating from college and found some copies of music I had made for my accompanist so she could play for a recital I was doing. You are suppose to destroy any copies of music you make so I though why not do it this way, I don't have to feel bad for wasting the paper and nobody is able to play the music because its been torn up.
So out came the mod podge, lots of torn pieces of music and a strangely decorated box and together we created this:
I have since then kept it on the piano with pens, pencils, my metronomes and my receipt book for lessons. It has been great to have and to keep me a little bit more organized.