In the Wrong Season...

I swear I always take on crafts for at least 2 seasons away from the current one, then once the current season is about to its end, THEN is when I start thinking about stuff for that one.  *sigh*  I'll just called myself "Well prepared" for the next year.

As for my current project.  I undertook a very time consuming one.  This one is for Christmas.  Here is a picture of the "Idea Sparker"...

I love it.  It is made with craft pearls.  I didn't want mine to be exactly like it, but I didn't know what I wanted it to look like...  I dragged a friend to Hobby Lobby to buy the supplies.  Come to find out, craft pearls are pretty expensive when you need a lot of them.  So.... I needed another way of doing it.  Hobby Lobby is "Well Prepared"  like me, thank goodness!  They have their Christmas stuff up already.  *Ah yeah!*   So wandered through that stuff for awhile.  I thought about a red wreath but it just wasn't really striking my fancy.   Then I saw blue, and my brain wheels started turning...  The image that came to my mind was The Snow Miser.  If you don't know about him, or need a refresher, here is a video of him....

Trust me to find a most weird inspiration.  ;)  So I knew what color palette to follow.  Now the craft pearl problem.  I found this Christmas pearl garland and got the idea to cut it apart.  Instant pearls!  Here is a collection of pictures of it from beginning to (Almost end).

First off, you need a foam wreath form.  Then you wrap ribbon around it.

 Then you take three or four nights to cut apart 3 containers of this pearl garland.  I used 2 clear, 1 silver, and 1 dark blue one that was not this big of a container.

 I wanted ice sickles so I bought these plastic ones and broke them to the sizes I wanted.

As for the finished product, I spent about 3 night hot gluing all the beads on.  So here is the (almost) finished product!!!!

Ta Da!!!

 

I say (almost) finished because I can't figure out how I'm going to hang it.  The ice sickles make it almost impossible to hang with ribbon from the middle...  So hence, almost, finished. I'll get something figured out.  Also, the lighter blue pieces are actually Christmas vase filler they had.  

P.S.  This thing weighs a lot.  Just a warning if you ever want to make one.