Button Topiaries

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 I got my first blog award today!  I'm somebody.  

Thanks so much to Brittany from Love Stiched for honoring me with the Sunshine Award.

The requirements of this award are:

1. Put the logo on the blog within your post.

2. Pass the award on to 7 bloggers.

3. Link the nominees within your post.

4. Let them know they received this award by commenting on their blog.

5. Share the love and the link to the person from whom you received this award. 

I nominate:

Christina @ Ruby Red Studio

Molly @ Pastor's Wife Redefined (better getting blogging again Molly!)

Beckey @ Hippo Brigade

Bird @ Bird Crafts

Sandi @ Lucky Thirteen and Counting

Lisa @ Jomestic Doi

Alissa @ Rags to Stiches

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Okay, I promised a craft today... and here it is.  

Please excuse the pictures.  

My good camera was over at my sister's house and I didn't feel like going all the way over there to get it {yes, and by 'all the way over there' I mean the twenty-five yards across the street was too far}.  

Whatd'ya think?  

It's a cute little topiary.  

I thought it would make a great little Get Well gift or even a cute shower centerpiece.  

You can use any color buttons and ribbon to go with whatever color scheme.

To start, I purchased the small clay pot, a wooden dowel {which I broke with my hands... I know, I'm Shera} and Styrofoam circles at Michael's.

I put one of the foam circles in the pot to hold the stick, then stuck a slightly larger circle on the top for the topiary.  In hindsight, I think I would wait to put the top circle on until you have covered it with buttons, just be sure to leave a little area at the bottom to stick the dowel into.

Also in hindsight I would have painted the dowel first... aren't you glad you get the benefit of learning from my mistakes?

I used gold paint, but with the quality of this picture I know it is hard to tell.  Alternatively, you could buy a green dowel, like the kind they use as plant stakes, then you could just leave it green.

Then I just started pinning buttons on.  I started with the largest ones that I had so that I could cover the majority of the open space.

I filled in the empty spaces with smaller buttons until the whole thing was covered.  

{Although... truth be told, I ran out of buttons before I finished so I took all the buttons from the backside and moved them to the front for the purpose of this posting.  Next time I go back to Michael's I will finish this project.  

In other words... buy two packages of buttons.}

Lastly, I took a little green felt that I had lying around, cut a strip, wrapped it around the bottom foam and pinned it on with some buttons.

Easy, peasey, lemon sqeezey... as my son would say!

I'm off to be the Librarian now.  A mom's day is never done.