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Deconstructing - Repurposing - Redesigning

Deconstructing - Repurposing - Redesigning

a great way to save money is to repurpose materials from an old wreath.  My customer had this wreath in her storage and it needed to be repaired and refreshed. I deconstructed the wreath, sorted through all the materials salvageable and then flipped it to a new design. All the yellow tulips were faded and half the greenery was brittle. Added some bright green ficus leaves, fresh bow and little bird. What change!!

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Ukulele Lei

Ukulele Lei

Here’s another first time creation for me. Well,  I think I made this one several times with different types of elastic until I decided that the clear stretchy string worked the best for me. This ukulele lei is made with the elastic string, silk flowers and beads..and one flower has a little pink button in the center. I learned that there’s a particular way to string the beads in the center of the flowers so the flowers lay flat....facing forward. This was fun to make and it had me humming a Hawaiian song for daaaaaays! This lei turned out so...

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Christmas Wreath on homemade Grapevine base

Christmas Wreath on homemade Grapevine base

I was so excited for Christmas season. I've been wanting to design a Christmas theme on this 24x39 grapevine base I made earlier this year. Back in the summer a tree fell in our woods during a storm.....and we didn’t hear it...the tree. LOL.  My husband said he found it on the ground and saw the grapevine growing in the top of it.  He asked if I would like the grapevine for a craft......ummm YES!  He pulled a lot of the vine out ....so sweet.  We was able to make three oval wreaths.....yes he helped..that was also sweet of him....

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Wood Block Birdhouses

Wood Block Birdhouses

Well you know how I like to repurpose....these were the black/white buffalo print Christmas block packages that was made out of the Fall block pumpkins. So these blocks have been used for three different designs.  To make these birdhouses, I removed the black and white vinyl material, then painted the wood blocks white, painted on a fake round door opening and added the wood roof....wood was also repurposed from a privacy fence. Another season of cuteness!!

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Merry Christmas Evergreen Wreath

Merry Christmas Evergreen Wreath

This finished 31x31x9 "Refreshed" wreath was made from new and refurbished materials.  To help maintain cost for my customers, I am sometimes able to reuse a customer's current wreath base and materials and add new decorative pieces to change the style or just freshen it up. For this one... I am using the customer's 28" evergreen base, the gold leaves and balls.  I added a custom sign, additional gold lattice ribbon, some more balls and did a glitter refresh on existing balls and gold leaves. It turned out so big, bright and colorful!! The wreath is going to make a...

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