Picnic Themed Trashion Necklace

This picnic themed necklace for Day 13 "Picnic" theme for 30 Days of Creativity www.30daysofcreativity.com.  When I think of picnics I think of gingham table cloths, plastic utensils, 2 liter bottles of sodas and ants.  

Fortunately, I had all of the item in my stash and it is is made entirely of recycled/upcycled material except for the crochet thread holding it together and glue from a hot glue gun.

The ant is off a purchased cake, the fabric "bead' from scraps of two different types of gingham, a washed knife and spork, two diet coke caps.   I have now posted a "How To" over at Cutout + Keep
and would love to see any inspired pieces that someone else would come up with.

I was excited to see this featured on One Pretty Thing

Happy Crafting!

White Paper Bag Mushroom

This is another version of the paper bag mushroom for my garden. Here is a link to the original one that has links to where I first saw this on Dollar Store Crafts and a link to the complete tutorial on how to make this.

http://craftsandcreationswithkathy.blogspot.com/2009/08/paper-bag-mushroom.html

For this one, I used a McDonald's bag that I immediately removed a Big Mac box from one I got it from the drive-thru so it would not get contaminated.

I used white shimmer acrylic paint for the top of the mushroom.

Instead of rubber bands to secure the top and bottom, I used white twist ties and for the stake in the ground, I used a white plastic knife.

One it was put together I sprayed the entire thing with clear acrylic spray to protect it from the elements.