Every year one side of Will's family does a gift exchange (too many cousins to give gifts to all of them) and it always has a theme, this year's theme was "Up-cycle". Well most of the projects I do aren't up-cycle - even though yes I do turn yarn into fashion accessories and ribbon into wreaths, that didn't really count - Will's projects are. We had two names, Victoria and Aunt Shellie, to make gifts for but he had the perfect ideas. Here are the two projects/gifts:
Twine wrapped bottles
Victoria is a Sophomore at The College of William & Mary. Will took a standard Champagne bottle and wrapped it in green landscaping twine, and then stenciled on the W&M athletic name "Tribe". And then he took two small Champagne bottles, wrapped them in Jute twine, and then stenciled on her graduation year "16".
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| "I was wandering through Lowe's one day and found their dark green jute landscaping twine" "Contact paper is my favorite stencil material for these projects; it's easy to cut with an craft knife and form fits the curved surface really well. It's also really easy to put through our Cricut for simpler projects, like our flower-stenciled bottles." - Will |
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| "When
Tori unwrapped her bottles, she wasn't sure if she was getting a 16 for
her graduation year or the "1693" for the founding of the school." "By the way, these are 187mL champagne bottles from Barefoot. I wanted to make sure that they matched the shape of the larger bottle, and Julie likes bubbly pink wine." - Will. It's true I do love bubbly pink wine! |
String Art
Will made the first last name string art for our friend's wedding last year and he had been wanting to make another. This time instead of picking a random script font in Pages, he conspired with his cousin's to get Aunt Shellie's handwriting - specifically "The Gums" in her handwriting. This turned out to be quiet the adventure (too long to type here).
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| "There
are just over 300 nails in this string art. They have to be closer together than some of my other ones to keep the curves of the letters recognizable." - Will |
Thanks for stopping by,
Julie
