Projects — PattieWack

Make plastic eggs ready for Easter with embroidery floss and pompoms.  So pretty, you'll want to keep them around every day!

The kids will love these for Easter!  Grab some cute dollar store socks and items out of your craft stash to make these darling Easter Bunny Sock Puppets.

When you have that ugly chair, and don't know what to do with it.... here's a solution. Reupholster it in burlap and personalize it with a painted monogram for a charming NEW chair! 

Here's a cute little card for the kids to make on a rainy day.  They will have fun drawing the stick figure, and making a fan that turns into an umbrella! Gather your supplies of paper in raindrop colors.   Cut and fold card in half. Cut paper for umbrella and fold into 1/2" pleats. Apply glue to one edge of the pleats.   Fold in half and glue together to form the fan/umbrella.   Glue umbrella into crease of card.   Draw a stick figure hold an umbrella handle.  Cut out.   Apply glue to back of stick figure cut-out....

  Quilled Wall Art   This wall art made with simple quilling techniques will be beautiful displayed in your home.  The paper strips are 1-inch wide, and create a very dramatic statement when formed around a bowl, glued together, and hung against a brightly colored wall.    Step 1: Gather Supplies – Large Bowl 12” x 12” Scrapbook Paper Plastic Wrap White Craft Glue   Step 2: Cut 1” strips from the scrapbook paper.   Step 3: Cover bottom of the bowl with plastic wrap to protect when gluing.   Step 4: Create coils, beginning in the center bottom of...

  Turn a chiminea into a fountain, covered with broken dishes.  A miniature tea set added to the design gives it a surprisingly unexpected whimsical touch.         Supplies: Chiminea Broken ceramic and china dishes Miniature tea set Aleene’s® Liquid Fusion Glue Grout Sponge & water Hammer Drill Fountain pump Clay pot (sized to turn upside down in the chiminea) Sealer & brush   Steps: Seal the inside of the chiminea to enable you to add water for the fountain.  Let dry. Drill a hole in the back of the chiminea above water lever, for the cord to pull...