| Wishing Well & Rocking Chair Do you recognize what I recycled to make these (imho) adorable decorations ? Clothes pins ! Yes clothespins, and lots of them... Only thing was I never figured out what to do with the middle metal bits..... so if any of you have an idea for them, email me. Anyway, down to the how-to part: I happened to have some old juice glasses kicking around in the back of my cupboard, but when I needed more they were very cheaply purchased from the dollar store. I ended up making lots of them ! They made very nice gifts :) ......sorry for rambling. You need, lots of clothes pins, Extra Tacky Glue (hot glue won't work as well) and the juice glasses. Take apart the clothes pins, and glue the flat side of the 1/2 clothes pin to the glass, working all the way round. (On some of these I covered the base with twine, because the glasses were slightly taller than the clothes pins, and it was more visually pleasing to not have a gap at the top of the wishing well) I'm afraid I can't explain how to do the 'roof' part except that you start with two 1/2 clothespins flat side in towards the inside of the glass, near the top, this part takes patience. Don't start building the actual roof on them until the glue is dry and they can support the weight. Once these Wishing wells have sat overnight and all glue is dry, you could go ahead and paint them, be creative ! I purchased boquets of 'holly' & 'poinsettia* cut them apart and put one in each Wishing well, after filling them with 'Hershey's Kisses :) or any other assorted holiday candy. Sorry ~~~There are no instructions for the 'Rocking Chair' at this time ~~~ |
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