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100% FROM RECYCLED MATERIALS…

AND IT LOOKS GOOD!

UPCYCLING AT ITS BEST!

From How To – Wreath

AND DOES NOT SMELL!

SUPPLIES YOU WILL NEED:

– Toilet Paper and/or Paper Towel Rolls (lots of them)
– Old Magazines
– Glue Gun
– Scissors
– Spray Paint
– A paper plate

START CREATING!

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1) CUT ROLLS!

Toilet Paper rolls can be cut into 5 pieces. They do not need to be perfect or the exact same size.

The paper I buy seems to stick to the roll at the end, and taking it off is the hardest part of the whole thing!

2) START DESIGNING WREATH!

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Start to lay pieces around the plate.

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Get your design down.

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3) GLUE PIECES TOGETHER!

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4) START YOUR MAGAZINE PAPER FLOWERS!

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Tear out pages of magazines, I go for the most colorful. I cut each page into 3 strips.

4) FOLD STRIPS OF MAGAZINE PAGES.

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Fold them in the width that you would like your flower to be. Honestly, they do not need to be the same size…I just fold them up, and used the glue gun to keep the edges down. I have done it without gluing them down…saves some time.

5) ROLL YOUR FLOWERS!

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Just start rolling. I glue down the last edge of a strip and then the beginning of the next edge strip. And you can make them as big or as small as you want!

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6) LAY OUT WHERE YOU WANT THE FLOWERS TO BE ON YOUR WREATH.

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Do not glue yet!

7) SPRAY PAINT YOUR WREATH.

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I picked yellow, which worked well on that white paper, but did not come out that yellow on the brown paper rolls!
So pick your color wisely, or test it. Or you can just go plain…I have another piece hanging in my living room with no color!

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Let Dry!

8) ATTACH YOUR FLOWERS!

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CONGRATS!

You made yourself a Garbage Wreath! Made art and saved stuff from the landfill!
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Stuff made from free things!

Okay, made with free things…and cheap stuff I bought for under $1.00!

From Twigs and Things

VINTAGE FRAME AND COOL BRANCHES!

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TWIGS, TWINE AND A GLASS…

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AND YOU GET YOURSELF A CANDLE HOLDER AU NATURAL!

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A BOOK, TWINE…

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AND CUTE THINGS….

MAKES FOR A NICE LITTLE  TABLE DECORATION!

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IF I CAN WRAP, BUNDLE, BUNCH IT…I WILL!

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Or someone like me will find it!

On a recent walk-about in nowhere Florida, my husband and I stumbled upon a skeleton!

No worries folks…it was not a crime scene.

It was a skeleton of a cow.

We have to believe a panther took it down…a long time ago.

And then of course the ever-present Turkey Buzzard cleaned it leaving just enough for the Dermestid Beetles do their jobs!

So, I did what every curious, not easily grossed out, crafter would do.

I TOOK IT HOME!

From How To – Clean Skull

Although the panther, buzzards, bugs and even the sun did their jobs really well, it still needed a deep de-bacteria bug cleaning.

And a cleaning I did!

Click on the photos to see “How to Clean a Skull.”

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Always curious, I explored the inside and this is that I saw…

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And this….

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Pretty, huh?

It is now a patio decoration, until I gather the gumption to build it some blinged out horns!

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I make things.

I make them from other things, such as…

Antique stuff, vintage what-nots, old do-hickies, divorced fragments, unwanted morsels, and plain ole’ garbage bits & pieces.

LIKE THIS:

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AND THIS:

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AND THIS:

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