Stake Project

This is a project I've been working on for the last 2-3 months. The theme of our stake relief society women's conference was "Be Your Own Kind of Beautiful". I had a committee of 5 in the end and we decided on a mirror decor theme, but wanted a few "different" types of centerpieces.

Now, remember, we were using church money and trying to spend as little as possible by borrowing or re-using goods from friends or previous activities. For starters, the table cloth linings were found in the stake relief society closet, not the prettiest, but good enough for this event.

We managed to scrounge up 6 candlesticks for these mirror topiaries I has envisioned. After putting one together with rhinestones one night, Landon laughed and said it wasn't going to work, not that I asked for his opinion. So I resorted to these paper flower topiaries since I was already making some for Kiki's All About Easter Event, then threw it on a mirror base to make it work for our theme.

We also rounded up 24+ frames that I cut mirrors for then hung wreaths from(made by one of the committee members).

Not sure why I took a picture of the crooked candle vase, but here it is, I used a shiny silver material to rest the candle in and rhinestones around the candle (hot glued to ribbon, then to the candle) for a reflective accent.

And last we found 6 square glass vases, wrapped some reflective cellophane around (for the mirror look) and threw in some flowers.
In addition to the centerpieces we had a couple of LARGE mirrors in the chapel and foyer also with large hanging wreaths and made 225 mirrors with a scripture theme written on top as a handout for each of the sisters that attended. I was beyond nervous for how it was all going to come together (real flowers, fake flowers, paper flowers, cellophane, ya know?!). But it was okay in the end, I was more concerned with trying not to spend too much!

Four Ways to Easterize Your Candlesticks

I've been featured on Kiki Creates!

Which is hilarious to me because I don't condsider this a real craft blog, it's just a collection of things I've made and where I found the ideas. So here are a few Easter ideas I've found and re-created.

This is what our "mantle" looks like most of the time...with plain, boring candles.

Now with a few Easter twists...

#1 - Candlestick Nests

I had this little combo sitting in an apothecary vase on the kitchen table and thought, "why not on a candlestick?" So here it is...just some thick moss from Joann's and some speckled eggs from Hobby Lobby.

The next three projects are all relatively similar to each other. I found my egg shaped styrofoam at Hobby Lobby. First you'll want to shave off a little of the egg from the bottom, so it can easily sit on the candlestick.

#2 - Moss Eggs

These are so simple, I'm sure we've all seen these and the next project done all over the craft blogging world with the round styrofoam balls. You simply glue the moss on to the styrofoam.

#3 - Rosette Eggs

Simply glue or pin rosette flowers all over the styrofoam egg. Kiki gave the best rosette tutorial I've seen just a couple of weeks ago. Check it out here.

#4 - Paper Flower Eggs

This idea spurred from Martha Stewart's Hyacinth Topiary idea. I didn't have the fake flowers lying around, but I do have an abundance of paper, so I cut out a few flowers, stacked two at a time and pinned them on.

Ta-da! These ones were my favorite and made the final cut to sit on the mantle for the season!