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Kitchen Mini Makeover ~Topiary

Here is one of the projects I made as part of my kitchen window makeover. I really wanted a topiary to sit on one of the shelves. I was hoping to find a styrofoam ball at the dollar store, but all they had were square ones or the wrong size.

I was determined to keep this project really cheap, so I bought a bag of balloons, blew one up to size and wrapped it is yarn-covered glue. I let it sit for a day until it was dry and solid, and then I popped the balloon. You can see it pictured below.

For this fund little topiary, I used my yarn ball, an unsharpened pencil, a flower pot that I painted gray, and lots of red felt. I spent a dollar on the pack of balloons, so this project was basically free, because I had the other supplies (my mom gave me the pot).

I was skeptical about using the yarn ball. I was really worried that it would collapse. But, I used lots of glue, and about a month later, it is still sitting strong. :) To cover the ball, I cut up a bunch of red felt strips and hot glued them on. I stuck the end of a pencil inside one of the holes in the ball and hot glued. Then, I secured it by gluing felt to the pencil and anchoring it down. Surprisingly, it was a pretty tight hold.

I was going to cut a bunch of circles and make little pom-poms to cover the whole thing, but I changed my mind really fast, knowing that it would take way too long! I decided to use squares instead. I just eye-balled them, so they are about 1" squares.

I ended up using all of the red felt that I had leftover, and had barely enough. I just love when this happens. Anyways, fold the square in half two times and place a dab of hot glue in the center.

I started hot gluing the pieces to the ball side opposite the pencil. I turned them random directions so it didn't look uniform.

I secured the pencil a little bit better with more felt as I got closer to getting the ball completely covered with felt squares.

I wrapped some burlap around the pencil several times to add some fun texture and color. I wrapped it a couple of times to make the base look thicker.

I filled the base with rocks that I bought at the dollar store...oops, I guess I spent $2 for this project. Still awesome though, right?

Here it is all covered and almost finished. There is just one more finished touch...

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Filed Under: DIY, felt, Kitchen, Red, Topiary, Yarn

Kitchen Mini Makeover ~ Paint

One weekend I decided I needed something fun to do. Actually, back up...a couple of years ago, we bought our first house. The window in the kitchen looks like this, with the original red paint. I like red paint, but these shelves needed some love. The top shelves usually sit empty except for major holidays (mostly Christmas), or they have something weird sitting on them. I have had a really hard time coming up with a way I wanted to decorate them. Well, I was so sick of how boring it looked and decided this was the something fun I needed to do.

I have been planning on doing my kitchen red and teal for about a year now, and just haven't really done anything to add some teal. So, let's meet the teal...

Well, the first coat at least...

I was a tad bit worried after the first coat I must say. I was really hoping I didn't just make a big ugly mistake.

Once all the red was covered up though, I knew I loved it! It is so bright and fresh. I used to sort of hate...not entirely hate...the "fancy" woodwork bordering the whole shelf/window. After the paint, I love it. And I like it even more now that things are completed!