cool mailbox garland decorations made with that cool mesh stuff I had bought....good thing cuz HL hobbylobby is out of it-unless you want purple and yellow!
We went to get some of those over-sized plastic ornaments and found out they are also over-Priced! $10-20 a pop!
Soooooo. I went shopping in my garage for some wire, rope-left over from the move, old Christmas lights-found at thrift shops for a few bucks a piece!
While @ HL got a mylar tabel cloth 50% off. Stopped for some Deco Mesh tube from Silks a Bloom Hint, they also have rolls of decomesh too.
Mom, the decorating elf she is, got to work on the garland using this as our inspiration but rope and pipe cleaners/wire for our base. AKA FREE! We watched a great tutorial here. while Dad and I started forming the wire frames for the ginormous Christmas balls. We made 6 to 8 loops of continuous 16 Gage multipurpose wire. (hint the natural curve of the wire was the small ball. I grabbed the wire, counted 6 loops, cut on the 7th loop. Cut some 12" pieces to secure the top and bottom of the ball and started forming the ball by opening out the frame pieces one by one to make a 3D ball. They would have looked great as is or spray painted, or with garland or tinsil attached to the metal.....so many possibilities. I wrapped them using just one $4 table cloth and clear packing tape and wired them on.
Here is the finished product. YES! It snowed while my parents were here...I think they brought it with them!
I made the spiral pieces using the deco mesh TUBE with the same wire I used for the balls. Lots of fun! Tip. Secure each end of wire to tube by bending and cripming the wire to the edge of the tubing twice and then pulling the stretchy tubing up to cover the ugly fraying ends. Don't think about it just do it.
