Spring Flower Crafts

My Marine left yesterday for a 5-day mission and will be back sometime on Monday.  So while he's gone, I need to keep myself and the girls occupied which isn't too much of a problem.  But I decided to do a "5 Crafts in 5 Days" challenge with Nani.  While Daddy's gone, we're going to make a craft every day!

Yesterday we did a spring flower craft.

I gave Nani some scrapbook paper, glue and buttons and asked her to make some flowers.  I wanted to see what she could come up with on her own.  And she did a great job!  I was too busy watching her work that I didn't get any picture of her in "action".  But here's a picture of the completed project.

After Nani was in bed, I added some wire "stems" to her flowers and put them in a glass that I found at Goodwill for .49.  I added some blue decorative stones and a pink bow.

After I did that, mommy got to work on her craft!

I found this frame at Goodwill too.  Obviously, the fish motiff really didn't go well with anything in our home (thank God!) so I decided to recycle it.

I repainted the frame a Caribbean blue, popped the glass out, and covered the mat with yellow felt.  Then I made 4 felt rosette flowers.  I thought they looked a little plain as is, so I cut out some circles from some other fabric scraps I had laying around.  Add some buttons, ribbon, and felt leaves -- and viola - a perfect flower garden!  I also had some butterfly buttons that I found buried in the bottom of my button box, so I added those too.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!  Now I just have to find somewhere to put it!