Anyone with children can understand this. Children take a lot of time. As they should. It is our job as parents to spend that time with them and on them. But *little happy dance* the master is asleep ... for now ... LOL. Yes, in this house we know who rules the roost.
One of the first projects I worked on back in March / April for Christmas was a gift for my mother-in-law. She is an awesome lady that I am very lucky to have in my life. And as with everyone else that I can consider "my people" (you know the ones that you are most protective / attached to? I love everyone in my family but my main focus is on my household family, and my parents back in Canada.) I listen closely when they mention wants and needs and store it away in my over crowded brain to pull out another day.
One thing that my mother-in-law has been in need of for while (she started really complaining about her need for something right after Christmas last year! If she had started two weeks earlier I may not have had a chance to do this project.) was some way to store her earrings, the dangily ones.
Well like the good little amazon shopper I am I went on a search. I tried every way I could like of to word the search, moved on to the expensive stores and google and I couldn't find something that I thought she would love. Well one of my other little addictions is Pinterest. After snooping for awhile I took a few different ideas I had found, combined them in my head, and headed to the craft store.
Please excuse the quality of the pictures. I was using my old phones camera.
Wall Hanging Earring Holder
Materials I used: Everything was from Hobby Lobby and I used 40% off coupons, and had my husband go though and pay for another part of it using his own coupon. Coupons = awesomesauce.
Cross stitching hoop (just a plain wooden one)
Lace (I got enough cut so that I would have some left over for another project.)
A hair clip with a purple flower on it (back with the ribbons in the fabric section)
Paint (I splurged and got some fancy dancy Martha Stewart metallic purple paint for this)
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Scissors
I choose to paint my frame unlike some samples I saw because I wanted something that looked pulled together and also to cover any imperfections on the cross stitching hoop.
Step One: Paint the hoop while it is apart so you can get some paint in the crack where the two pieces come together so you don't have wood showing through.
Step Two: Lay the outer half of the hoop down on a surface that is clean and won't have anything that will snag the lace.
Step Three: Lay the lace on top of the frame with the pattern how you want it. (I wanted the roses to look like they were going up.
Step Four: Place the inner hoop inside the outer hoop and tighten slightly. As you are tightening, gently pull the lace back toward you so it pulls taunt on the front of the frame. But be careful not to pull too hard, you don't want to rip it. Once you are happy with the tightness of the lace tighten the frame the rest of the way. Cut away the excess lace.
Step Five: (Optional) I decided to run a bit of hot glue all around the back of the frame where the lace was showing to A) secure the lace so it would snag and it would stay in place and B) so when the frame is on the wall the wood wouldn't be rubbing on the paint of the wall). Careful this part can get pretty hot, I burnt my fingers multiple times ... but that could be because I wanted my hot glue beading to be more flat and I messed with it.
Step Six: Place bow, flower, whatever decoration you liked on the front of the frame where the tightening screw is (That tightening screw is what you are going to use to hang it on the wall on a nail!) and hot glue that flower to the FRAME, not the screw.
And viola! All done. Really simple and I think she will love it. Choose colors that she would love and a style that will match her perfectly.
Here are a couple of pictures that I took, not much, this was before I realized I should take pictures of each step.
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