Blue Felt Tree

Robert's Mom's birthday was last month and I wanted to make her something unique.

I have had these styrofoam cones that I had been wanting to try crafting with.

 Browsing through Pinterest, I saw quite a few different ideas for trees made from them.

Using those for inspiration, I came up with my own tree idea.

I took the base of a ribbon container and traced circles onto two different shades of blue felt.

I cut the circles out and then attached them to the styrofoam cone,

using sequins pins.

I alternated between putting a seed bead a sequins on the sequins pin and putting a seed bead and a button on the pin.

I found those cute, sparkly blue birds in the dollar bins at Michael's.

I thought they would be a great touch to this project!

I adhered them with glue dots!

Bird Nest Brooch

There are so many pretty bird nest jewelry pieces floating around on Pinterest.

I decided to take inspiration from them.

I made four brooches for my Mother-in-law for Christmas.

She loves birds and anything dealing with Biology, she also likes brooches.

I started off each brooch by picking three beads.

I then threaded them onto 20 gauge wire.

I wrapped the wire around the beads until I got a thickness that was appealing.

I then took the wire end and threaded the pin back onto the back of the bird's nest.

I used that same end to wrap around the wire "nest" twice between each bead.

This also helped to secure the pin back.