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Rolling Pins as Art?

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If you have limited drawer space in your kitchen or just want a new decorating idea that for your kitchen, here’s an idea –  Hang your rolling pins as art!  My daughter did this in her kitchen.  She bought decorative hooks and placed them to hold her rolling pins.  These are the kind of hooks you would use to hang clothes or towels on.  Make sure they are open enough to fit the rolling pin handles.  This is both storage and art. You can hang other items as collections, too, such as ice cream scoops, sieves and colander, serving platters, coffee mugs, etc.

Quick Window Decorating

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If you are as busy as I am and you just can’t find the time to decorate for Christmas, here’s a quick solution.  I cut out Cardinals and snowflakes and tape them to the windows.  They look great from the street and are inexpensive and fast to do.

I found a Cardinal shape that I liked from clip art and photos and traced it on to heavy red paper.  You can use card stock, construction paper, or scrapbook paper.  I used 2 colors of red paper.  Once I cut them out, I outlined the edge with black marker and added the “mask” and wings.  Mine are about 6 or 7 inches.  I used one for the smaller windows and 2 or 3 for the larger windows.

I cut the snowflakes from heavy white paper using my Cricut machine.  That made the job go very fast.  They range in size from about 3 inches to 6 inches.  You can also buy stick on snowflakes or cut them from paper the old-fashioned way, too.  Then, just tape them up randomly on your windows.  The tape won’t show from the street.  Put as many as you like.

Pumpkin Topiary

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What’s better than something a little unexpected.  Here is an Autumn variation of a topiary.  The measurements of the supplies I used are in parenthesis.  You can adjust them to your needs.

Clay pot (2 ½-inches high, 3 ¼-inches diameter)

Styrofoam blocks

Wooden dowels (10-inches long, ¼-inch diameter)

Green floral tape

Craft moss

Ribbon (1 ¼-inch wide, about 2 feet long per bow)

Artificial pumpkins (2-inches high, 3 ¼-inches diameter)

Scissors

Tacky Glue

Cut the foam blocks to fit in the clay pot.  Glue these to the bottom of the pot being careful not to let any glue leak out of the drainage hole.  Wrap a dowel with floral tape and insert it into the foam block using a small amount of glue for security.  Carefully push the pumpkin onto the top of the dowel.  Start a small hole if needed and use a small amount of glue to secure it.  Tie the ribbon in a bow on the dowel just under the pumpkin.  Put some glue on top of the foam block and cover with the moss, so none of the foam shows.  Group these in odd numbers for display.  (see my article, Rules of Three)

Rules of Three

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I’ll share my (not so) secret tip on arranging, decorating, and placing just about anything in an eye-pleasing fashion…use odd numbers.  Simple as that!  And 3 is the best odd number to use.  When you are picking colors or decorating, pick a light, medium, and dark.  To mix prints when picking fabrics, pick a large print, medium print, and small print, in light, medium and dark shades.  If you are arranging flowers, several “3’s” apply: use large, medium, and small flowers, use dark, medium, and light colors, use 3 different textures such as spiky, fluffy, and cluster.  When you are arranging items for display, such as on a shelf, group them in odd numbers – 1 or 3 of an item work the best.  For example, group 3 frames and 1 decorative box.

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