Birds of a Feather

Welcome to crafting hour (as my husband so lovingly called it). I’m finally getting busy working on some decorations/crafts for the “Rainbow Owl” shower scheduled 9 days from now. Time is going so fast! We got in all the materials to decorate, but unfortunately I thought I’d be able to find little drink umbrellas in the store to make this cute “shower” wreath and they were nowhere to be found. We literally went to 4 stores. Oh well…some day you will be mine cute umbrella wreath.

What we did do is make an owl and rainbow baby mobile and a cute little owl family. Take a look.

I made the rainbow mobile by covering the inside of an embroidery hoop with embroidery floss in the colors of the rainbow. This was SO easy and really inexpensive. Then I colored this pattern in paint and printed out the little owls on white, thick scrapbook paper. I like that this is a decorative theme piece that can also be used later in a very functional way.

I got the idea to make a little owl family from Basic Grey. Instead of using an oatmeal canister, I used some empty toilet paper rolls. We’re planning to make a little baby owl to complete the family just as soon as I have another toilet paper roll. For the eyes I had Josh cut small circles of tissue paper that we crinkled around hole puncher scraps. A definite plus for making these smaller owls—three sheets of scrapbook paper make 3 owls instead of 1. (No idea why this picture looks stretched…)

Some other notes…I mentioned that the invites came in. Check them out! I specially ordered them from Zazzle. I just love Zazzle because they let you customize everything. Obviously I added the rainbow and the rainbow text to the original design. I just love it.

The invites aren’t actually blurred on the bottom, I just realized it’s probably not the best idea to be putting our home address on the web.

One final note, I bought these little guys at Michael’s today intending to put them in the shower wreath. Since the wreath is nixed do you have any suggestions?

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