Saturday, August 16, 2025

Make a Super Cute Cornucopia and Bow Table Decoration for Fall

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 With holiday gatherings near, here's an easy and quick DIY on how to make a super cute Cornucopia and Bow Table Decoration for Fall! Impress your family and friends with this lovely decorative piece. Imagine it overflowing with seasonal items such as leaves, acorns, nuts, candies and other goodies! The possibilities are endless! 

Supplies Used:

Instructions:
Start with a sheet of burlap paper 12"x12"

Grasp one of the pointed corners facing up, and roll together the burlap paper into a cone shape, with the bottom forming a point.

Once you line up the burlap edges and point into a cone, run glue along the edges where they overlap to hold the cone in place, to make .  .  . 
 the cornucopia shape.

To dress up the cornucopia with ribbon, take a 50" piece of wired ribbon and . . .

fold together lengthwise. Use clamps to hold ribbon together. Pull the end wire on each side gathering the ribbon into ruffles.

Continue pulling the wires and gathering the ribbon until you have a ruffle long enough to fit around the top inside of the cornucopia cone.

Adjust the wires on both ends of the ribbon ruffle, tie in knot and cut off excess wire and ribbon. Glue on the ruffle around the inside top of cone.
To make the Bowdabra Bow, cut a 15″ piece of Bowdabra wire, fold together and place in the Mini Bowdabra, tucking the ends under. Cut an 18" piece of matching ribbon, creasing the center and place down into the Mini Bowdabra.

Dovetail the ends of the ribbon by folding the ribbon together and cutting at an angle from the fold down to the corner tip.




Next, leave the ribbon on the roll and crease about an inch from the end of the ribbon and insert down into the Mini Bowdabra. Then fold over a four inch loop and press down into the Mini Bowdabra.
Fold the ribbon to make a matching loop on the opposite side, down into the Mini Bowdabra.
Then make two more loops on either side for a total of four loops.  
To finish the bow, make a button loop to cover the bow wire, then scrunch all the loops down using the Mini Bowdabra wand and cut off excess ribbon.
Remove the Mini Bowdabra wand and thread the two loose ends of the bow wire through the loop, pulling tightly and gently pulling it out. Take the bow wire around to the back, tying the wire in two or three tight knots, and cutting off excess wire.
Fluff the bow loops and center button that looks like a ruffle! So cool!

Attach the bow to the center base of the ruffle using glue.

Have fun filling your cornucopia with autumn and fall goodies that will surely impress everyone!
                 
Thanks for stopping by

and take a little time to enjoy,

Happy Crafting!








Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Twinkling Bling Floral Wire Pumpkin

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I love looking online in high end stores to see what inspires me! And recently I was on Frontgate and came across an adorable and quite unusual pumpkin as seen here:


It's called "Gemstone Pumpkin" and is described as being "covered in hundreds of warm white LED lights and gemstones." It retails for $429.00! All I can say is WOW!!!! It is really pretty but I truly believe given the simplicity of it, it's not worth over four hundred dollars or even close to that amount! If you look really hard at the picture, you can see the wires of the lights and gemstones wrapped around the shape.

I would never, ever spend that much money or anything near that amount on a pumpkin but it did inspire me to create a decorative pumpkin using crystals rocks, LED twinkle lights and other items I already had on hand!  

Hello and Welcome to this month's Creative Craft Hop!  I'm so glad you're here! We have two wonderful hosts - Donna @Modern on  Monticello and Sara @Birdz of a Feather  who take turns every other month! The talented and inspirational Donna is our host this month!  

If you're coming over from Cecilia @My Thrift Store Addiction, wasn't her crochet chenille daisies absolutely adorable! 

Let's get started with the items I used to make my 

Twinkling Bling Floral Wire Pumpkin!

Supplies:

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How To:
Begin by arranging two floral wire rings together at the center and .  .  .
add the remaining two by criss crossing or intersecting the first two rings. Secure by wrapping the top and bottom with wire at the middle top and bottom.  I'm using a tape ring temporarily to allow the rings to stand evenly upright until the crystals are glued on.
Here are the floral wires grouped together at different angles for the shape of a pumpkin:


Once the floral rings were connected using wire, I used my hands to press the center of the rings down a bit to mimic the oval shape a pumpkin.


Next, I used the fifth ring to fold and shape the pumpkin stem using a ruler and a wire cutter and then .  .  .


hot gluing the stem wire to the center top of the rings.


After that, it was time to start hot gluing the clear crystal rocks to the base of the pumpkin stem wire. 

I had some elongated crystals in my stash that I glued on each ring first extending from the center.
Once the center was done, which looked gorgeous by the way .  .  .
the stones were hot glued on each floral ring, one at a time .  .  .

as I moved around and down the metal rings.
Once this position of glued on stones was reached about three quarters of the way, 
it was time to turn the wire pumpkin upside down to finish gluing on the stones on each ring.
Here, I'm getting closer to gluing on the crystal rocks to the bottom center.
Don't you just love how the crystal stones look once the rings are covered.
Smaller crystal stones were glued onto the stem to .  .  .
complete the crystal stones look! Invisible thread was used to tie on the LED lights around the stones on each ring - one ring at a time. Sorry, I didn't take a picture of this - but if you look closely, you can see some of the thread wrapped around the stones and ring. Remember, the thread is suppose to be invisible or transparent, lol!


Here is the pumpkin lit during the daytime and .  .  .


 at night!
How cool is this!
I hope you like my Twinkling Bling Floral Wire Pumpkin! I'm loving it so much more 💗than my inspiration!

Up next, is Sara @Birdz of a Feather, and one of our fabulous host, sharing her amazing and lovely Coin Necklace!  

Be sure to visit all of this month's creative projects by the Creative Crafters  listed below:










Saturday, July 26, 2025

Lotus Flower Style Veneer Lamp

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Hello and Welcome to the 'Do It Over' Designers Blog Hop!!  In case you haven't heard, the "Do It Over Designers" is a group of creative bloggers who love to recycle/upcycle/ DIY, hosted by Anne @The Apple Street Cottage. It happens the 4th Saturday of every other month and it's all about taking something old and/or unused and 'doing it over' into something new. Once in a while, Anne will choose a theme for us to do over. This month it's Lighting! Thanks Anne for hosting this wonderful blog hop!

 

Wood veneer edge banding is usually used as an edge wood trim to cover exposed edges of furniture, cabinet doors, drawer fronts, shelves, etc. But the fun part for this 'Do It Over' project is using a very unconventional color style of the wood veneer edge band strips - one with a rainbow color painting on the band instead of the usual wood tones.  So for this month's 'Do Over' I'm going to shape the colorful wood veneer strips into a lotus flower style and add a light source in the middle for the lamp! Sounds cool doesn't it? I'm really excited about making the edging into a light source instead of using it to cover furniture edges! 

So let's get started!

Supplies:
Disclosure I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites, this post may contain links. I may receive a very small commission at no cost to you! Plus Google Adsense provides a platform for me to monetize my content by hosting ads from Google's network of advertisers. The money I earn helps pay my crafting expenses. Thanks so much for your support!

                                                                     

How To:

There are two parts to my lotus flower style veneer lamp - a small flower with 6 1/2" long veneer strips and a larger flower with 8 1/2" strips. Both sizes will be using a wood circle disc about four inches in diameter for the center. 
First, to help keep the veneer strips placement as even as possible,  using a ruler and pencil, divide the wood circle into four sections.  Starting at the 12 o'clock position, draw a line down to the 6 o'clock position. Then draw another line from the 9 o'clock position over to the 3 o'clock position. 

Next, cut out sixteen, 8 1/2" long strips of colorful wood veneer. There is a right side that shows the colorful wood design. And a wrong side which is rough and actually has glue embedded on it.

After cutting out the sixteen strips, using a ruler and pencil, measure 1/2" from the end of each strip and draw a line. Then turn the strip over to the wrong side and on the opposite end draw another line at the 1/2" mark. 

Begin gluing on each strip using the lines on the wood circle and the right side line on each strip as a placement guide on the .  .  .


12 to 6, and the 9 to 3 lines.

and then, glue on three strips in between each one the same way.

Continue gluing on the strips, matching the lines of the strips to the circle edge. 
Once all the strips are glued on, turn the wood disc over and .  .  .
take a strip in one hand and count three strips over and glue that strip together on the end with the strip in your hand. This will be your first "petal".
                                                                                

From the left strip that has been glued together, take the strip to the right of it and glue this strip together with the third strip on the left.

Continue gluing the strips together on the left - from the glued together left strip, take the strip to the right of it and glue this strip together with the third strip on the left. Continue going around the disc until all the strips are glued together as petals forming a lotus flower shape.


The petals are arranged in a symmetrical, overlapping pattern, creating a full, elegant lotus flower style.


The wood circle disc needs to be covered with strips of veneer to enhance the total look! *In hindsight, I should have covered the opposite side of the round disc with veneer strips before gluing on the sixteen strips. It would have been easier to trim and so much neater, too.


Once the strips are glued onto the wood circle, cut off the excess strips around the wood circle edge .  .  .


 The wood circle disc looks so much better covered in veneer!


For the smaller flower, veneer strips were glued on first to the wood disc (not shown) and then the excess overhang was cut off following the circle edge.
                           


 Then the 6 1/2" veneer strips were glued on, like before, and shaped into a lotus flower.

The two finished lotus flowers - side by side: 

Add glue to the disc in the center of the larger lotus flower, and then placing the smaller lotus flower inside the larger flower -  making sure to stagger the petals between the larger and smaller flower.

And finally, place the LED light in the center and .  .  .

enjoy the different lighting colors using the remote .  .  .


to set your decorative mood!



I hope you enjoyed my "Do Over" veneer strips lighting project! 

Before you leave, don't forget this is a blog hop and the team has some amazing upcycle/recycle/do-it-over Lighting projects to share with you.

Be sure to visit all of this month's creative projects by the  "Do It Over Designers"  listed below: