Tuesday Tutorial–Snowballs

Hi Friends,

Taking another look back at a fun winter tutorial today!

Snowballs!

This post is from last year. Enjoy!

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I wanted to share with everyone how I made my snowballs. 



I did mine a little different than what I have seen out there. Same concept but being the thrifty queen that I am… I used what I had. And what I had… was 125 silk covered plastic ornaments. (If you don’t have ornaments you can buy Styrofoam balls. Try to get them on sale because they aren’t cheap.)



I decided these would work just fine. So I pulled all the silk off…




And gave Phat Boy a wonderful head of golden locks. Ha!



He did not appreciate it as much as I thought he should.



“I’m a boy. This is ridiculous.”



Ok… enough messing with the kitties. Back to the snowballs.

Mr. Primcat snipped the plastic nubs off the ornaments with heavy duty wire cutters. The ornaments also had holes in them so I just scotch taped them up.



And then came the messy part. Joint compound.

Put on some gloves… grab a glob in your hand and start smearing it on.



You get these. Let dry for 24 hours and repeat where needed. Let dry another 24 hours.



See how pokey they are...



Snowball fight anyone????? :)



I have my ammo prepared!



After drying… The snowballs will be pokey and pointy and you don’t want that. Hubby and I decided to sand them with 80 grit sandpaper to take those nubs off.

And here is the finished result.










Put them in bowls, jars, and baskets, under shoofly’s, on plates and tucked into shelves. I also found they are really cute sitting in the branches of your Christmas trees. Might theme one with them next year.

Another reason I really liked this project is that this is winter themed and can stay out months into the new year.

Merry Christmas!

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats

Primcats Homespun Candy Cane Tutorial

Hi Friends,

Thought we would take a look back at my homespun candy canes and how to make them. Enjoy! 

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Today I’m going to show you how to make these cute little homespun candy canes.

You need:

Plastic Candy Canes

Fabric

Hot glue gun

Embellishments: Cheesecloth, Sweet Annie, Bells

So we start with this…

And some fabric…

Rip fabric into 1/2 strips then hot glue onto the end.

Tuck end corners into the first wrap and then just keep wrapping.

End it the same way you began… with a dab of hot glue.

After many hours… you will have a bunch of wonderful Candy Canes and a worn out cat from stealing all your ripped up strips of fabric.

Poofie says “Phew, Mom. That was exhausting. Lets nap now.”

Awwwww… sweet little kitty!

And wala… candy canes.

If you want to dress them up… I did some with sweet annie and cheese cloth, though I am severely allergic to Sweet Annie I know my prim friends love it so all my sweet annie ones are leaving, or have already left here.

Achoo! 

They are so cute though. Wish I wasn’t allergic!

Wrapped up and ready to sell and gift!

You can also add bells. Super cute too!

 

These are great as bowl fillers, jar fillers, ornaments and even gift toppers.

Have fun with it!

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats

Tuesday Tutorial ~ Bells

Hi Friends... 

Found another old post back in the drafts! 

Remember last year when I bought this ever so ugly gold bell wreath and said I had plans for it... well here ya go. 

Tracy... helping. :)

EW! Shiney. No No NO!!!! 

So I had Mr. Primcat string them all up and paint them black for me! 

As you can see we had LOTS of GW bells to do. Not just that big wreath. I had been picking them up here and there for a long time! 

Now I have a whole tote of black bells for less than $5.00! 

Here are the little ones he did! 

Obviously we did this on a huge scale by stringing them across a whole room because we had so many but you can do this smaller scale in a box of any size. Just string them from side to side. 

Cheap ugly gold goodwill bells made 

Prim Perfect!! 

Until next time...

Carmen and the Primcats

~ Wax Pantry Cake Tutorial ~

Hi Friends...

I thought we would play with some wax today!

How about a tut on how to make these pretty pantry cakes!

 

     

 

Lets get started.

Start out with a thrift store crock pot. I paid 3.99 for mine.

Also pick up some thrift store candles. $.99 cents for the brown big one. $.50 cents for the small white one. I also added in left over candle bits I had from old candles.



If you melt the wax... and let it reharden... it will do this, cave in. The reason I let my reharden is because the color was to light so I turned off the pot and came back later when I had better supplies.

Below the pot here you will see walnut crystals. I added some of those but it still wasn't dark enough.



I ended up buying this Black candle dye from http://factorydirectcraft.com/catalog/products/1302_2580_2581-3357-12_oz_black_candle_dye_block.html

Next... you need some molds.

Any size or shape will do.

Again... Goodwill. Cheap.







I used a metal ladle to scoop my wax into my molds. I did not put anything on the molds for nonstick. I just took my chances.



I let them cool. Then popped them in the fridge for a few minutes then flipped the molds and the wax fall out.

And you get these...



You can see here how light the wax was before I added the black dye. Bottom is no dye... top is black dyed.

 

 

Here is a wax pantry cake before dusting.  

After it cools Rub it in cinnamon, coffee and cloves as much or as little as you want to.

You can even make big ones.

This one is 9”.

Arap with cheese cloth or brown paper. That’s it. Pretty easy!

 

 

Simple and fun to make!

Until next time…

Carmen and the Primcats