So my epic fail a few days ago was salvaged with buttons, but being as my sister is not the only one who received all the perseverance in the family, I was determined to make my paper-pieced decorative ball happen. So I decided to google search Styrofoam crafts and low and behold I found this......Dow has a craft site...

I love cheap crafts. They make me happy because they usually look so much more expensive than they actually are. I was so excited when I saw two pillar holders and two taper candle sticks. I figured I could make a couple of altered hurricanes for Steve's lounge, and I knew he'd like them because they were...

Well my sister, Dana, and I salvaged our decorative ball project. We did not attempt the paper strips again, but instead painted two styrafoam balls bronze and then raided Mom's button chest. :) I think it turned out very well! Here some pictures of  the process. We pushed toothpicks into the bottoms of the styrafoam...

So I had planned a great post about how my sister, Dana, and I made some decorative balls to fill a great thrift find this week, annnnnnnnnd it was an epic fail. I wanted to wrap 3" styrafoam balls with vintage graphics (think paper mache') and it did not work....at all. The only thing we managed to do was make a mess...

Well we are back from Pennsylvania and the Baptism was wonderful. We could not have asked for better weather or friends and family to share it with. I do not have any good pictures yet of the outfit, but honestly I don't know that there were any taken. It was a whirlwind of a day and I completely forgot about getting any...