Using Nature to Make Nature!
3 Materials
$1
45 Minutes
Easy
Nature inspired these DIY'd cotton stems. Halfway through making them I realized I was using nature to make nature! Wait! are cotton balls nature??
These cotton stems were so totally easy to make. I had everything needed...including those nature cotton balls! :?
I made these on a Friday afternoon. The next day I went to a vintage market event. So many people were walking around with handmade cotton stems!
These cotton stems were so totally easy to make. I had everything needed...including those nature cotton balls! :?
I made these on a Friday afternoon. The next day I went to a vintage market event. So many people were walking around with handmade cotton stems!
This turned into a mess first!
Then turned into these!
I took the middle pine scales from the cone and hot glued in a cross to a cotton ball.
Branches were gathered for the cotton plant. A dollop of hot glue added the cotton to the "plant."
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Am going to make these. My mom has been wanting me to do a ole timey tree as she puts it, with colored light. she says it don't seem like Christmas unless a tree has colored lights and colored balls.So i will be changing my tree this yr for her with popcorn garland and etc. Thanks for this idea ,all the cotton had been picked around here, an to expensive to buy a cotton limb.
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Great idea! Thank you!!!
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Thanks! A group of women got together and make them as a group. They sent photos of them making them. Warmed my heart. That's why I do this.
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