After spending so much time thinking about children's art it was fun to spend Thursday afternoon crafting with some friends at the Portland Elks Club. We had been talking about the up-coming Valentine's Day Dance and the centerpieces for the tables when it was suggested that it might be fun to create some of our own. Always ready for an art project I volunteered to come up with an idea.
After a quick trip to the Christmas Tree Shop, I returned with some glass heart shaped vases ( 4 for $1.00), three packages of hearts on stems ( a package of six for 99 cents) some peel and stick hearts, a few bouquets of silk roses from Micheal's craft store ( two for $400) and a collection of foam letters, glitter and heart shape stamps from my own supplies. We were all set.
We had no specific plans for the decoration of these vases. We simply looked at the materials and started experimenting. We had a bag of candy hearts with sayings on them and used them as resources for our words.
The results were quite pleasing. I was thinking that this would also be an easy and inexpensive way to make a personal gift for young children to give to grandmothers for Valentine's Day gifts.
The final picture shows some of the vases. Not too bad f I do say so myself. We added some shredded mother of pearl paper inside the vases to finish them.
It is really fun to sit with friends and share a creative activity. We talked and laughed. We offered each other suggestions and we gathered a crowd of interested by-standers who were quite amazed with our artistic abilities. A fun afternoon with friends for very little expense. Have a great Day!
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