I’m a member of a yahoo group called Bits of Goodness. I’ve just started my first swap with them and I wish I had found them YEARS ago “I TELL YOU!” (…anyone know that movie line?)
Please if you’re in this swap and want to be surprised…don’t peek. Also…my element mommas if you read this…fair warning! 😉
I signed up for the Wish.Wonder.Surprise swap and made 6 sets of Gnome or Fairy sized table with 4 chairs with a confetti type look to them. I also made gifts wrapped in little bows and a cake that just happened to have icing the same color as the bows on the presents at each individual table. You were to send 5 and a hostess gift as a thank you to the hostess for well…hosting! 🙂
The girls and I painted them after I’d glued them with a non-toxic hot glue. I’m proud to say I never burnt myself! 🙂 (Yes. Burning myself with the glue gun happens a lot. For some reason I’m always getting the molten lava they call glue on my fingers. And, I can attest it’s not toxic ’cause any time I hurt my fingers right into my mouth they go. There isn’t any ill effects like double vision or double vision or anything. 😉 ) Sunshine globbing the paint on is where I got the idea for my little nativity sets shepards hair. I have to say she still did a better job of keeping herself clean than I did. Paint’s like a magnet to me. I just get covered in it.
So, they were glued, painted and then I popped pretty little dots of colors on top of the chairs. I didn’t put anything on top of the table ’cause when the gifts and the cake were on it I didn’t want it to look too busy. Yep..I’m Martha Gnome-rt.
The gifts were wrapped in ribbons and the cake was painted to match. Pretty simple and adorable when put on a plate and set upon the table just waiting for the little ones to make a WISH as they blew out their candles, WONDER if their presents held their wish and be SURPRISEd when they open it and discover what’s inside. To me Wish.Wonder.Surprise is a child’s birthday celebration.
I love everything! I would also love to know where you got your tree? its amazing!
Oh, Honey, you don’t stop to surprise me! Everything you made is so cool! And that log is amazing!
Hi Ali! I LOVE the log. I hope we can find some more ’cause I have so many ideas to do with them now!
Land of Setting Sun is actually told by me. I designed it one day while the kids were playing with some legos and I was painting. Tyler brought over his creation and he had made a hearth with pot for soup and everything. It had a loaf of bread baking in the oven, even had an oven door that opened. It was about 12×15 inches (one Christmas was a Lego Christmas) and I had these fall colors before me, had soup on the stove and sourdough bread and apple pie cooling on the rack. Tyler said he loved when everything was done and we could just be as a family together doing stuff. It just sparked a story. I never tell the same story. It’s always different and it always works with what’s going on in our life.
Honey
Hi Honey, I too belong to Bits of Goodness” and I just had to visit your blog to hear about your creations for the the elemental swap – awesome. That log cut is so cool. Who is the author of the book “Land of Setting Sun”? it sounds really nice.
Blessings on you and yours.
Ali,
New Zealand