So pretty! Now they were ready to do their duty, and hold up our family collection of cookbooks. To finish off the bookends, I wrapped ribbon around my bookend where the fabric-wrapped quarter and the boxes meet, and added some pretty foam flowers on the front that I found in the scrapbooking section of my local Michaels. Then I attached the two together using my glue gun, with the t-pin side down. I filled each small gift box with rice for my weight. You would be right! That is where the small gift boxes come in. Now, you may be thinking that a one foam quarter is not close to being heavy enough to hold up books. Once I was happy with how the fabric was wrapped around my shape, I cut off the excess fabric and secured the rest down with more t-pins. Using t-pins, I secured the fabric on one of the straight sides of my foam quarter, securing in place along the way. I wrapped each foam quarter with fabric – treating it like a present – making sure all of the sides were smooth, tucking in fabric where needed and pulling it tight around my foam shape-except for one of the bottom edges. I picked coordinating fabric that matched the gift boxes I picked out.
Next, I cut two pieces of patterned fabric, big enough to wrap two of the foam quarters – about 18″ x 18″. 2 Pcs Wood Bookends Rainbow Book Ends,Decorative Book Ends for Holding Books/Cookbooks/DVDs. 4″ small gift boxes (I found my in the party/gift section at Target)įirst, I started by cutting my cake foam into halves, and then into quarters. Target gender Unisex : Material Type Wood : materialcomposition.Here is what I used to make my homemade bookends: Rainbow And Cloud Childrens Bookends By Lola & Alice. I love how they turned out, and they were so easy to make! 23 Things From Target To Help Make Your Home So Much Cozier Nursery Clock, Nursery. Well, I turned my cake form into cute fabric wrapped bookends. Some of my other fellow bloggers turned their cake forms into hearts, like this fabulous feather covered Valentine photo prop or this faux Valentine pinata, or into a cool football utensil holder-just to name a few. This month’s challenge? Create something with a foam cake foam… that isn’t a cake.
But my favorite so far has got to be the rainbow crayon heart wall art that hangs above my bed. A lot of friends and teachers received the Santa and elf hat candy jars over the holidays. Remember the foam heads? That was my first month, and I turned one into cupcake centerpiece stand. I have absolutely loved being a part of the Floracraft Make It: Fun team for the past six months! Every time I get my box of foam goodies, I am always delighted to see what my crafty challenge will be for the month. As always, ALL photographs, ideas, and opinions are my own. While I do not know what is on the other side of a rainbow, I do know that placing books between two sides of a rainbow makes any bookcase look cheerful, welcoming, and radiant.As part of the Make It: Fun Team, this post is sponsored in part by FloraCraft. If you do not want to commit to reorganizing your house like a rainbow, consider adding a pop of color with these colorful rainbow bookends. Chic instagram influencers even encourage organizing books, toys, and other household items by rainbow order.
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Families in Brooklyn hung rainbow art in their windows to cheer up their quarantined neighbors. My preschool students love painting rainbows. Musing the answer to Kermit’s query, I think there are so many songs about rainbows because rainbows simply make people feel happy. Rainbow Connection, Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Rainbow Ballerinas, the theme song to Reading Rainbow, and the Youtube jam Double Rainbow popped into my head. In The Muppet Movie, amphibian philosopher Kermit asks, “Why are there so many songs about rainbows?” As I took my fourth walk around the neighborhood the other day (walking is my new coronavirus shutdown hobby), I thought about Kermit’s question and listed all of the songs about rainbows that I know. Read Across America Day is her favorite holiday! When she is not in the classroom, Katherine enjoys building wooden train layouts with her three-year-old son, playing board games while drinking IPA’s with her husband, and taking part in pub trivia. The Plot (from Goodreads): The Hunting Wives share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, Read More. Katherine Willoughby lives is Richmond, Virginia and teaches Junior Kindergarten at the same school where she discovered her love of reading.
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