Butterfly Mobile

I was working today and was asked to post some tutorials on all the fun crafts that I have been doing lately.

Supplies:

1x 10" metal hoop (like what is used for making dream catchers.)
120x Glass beads
card stock scrapbook paper (enough to cut 80 butterflies with punch)
needle and thread
1.75" butterfly punch
4x 8" pieces of 3/4" ribbon
hot glue gun & glue
craft knife or paper scorer

Directions:

Step 1: using butterfly punch cut 80 butterflies its better to cut a few more just to practice.

Step 2: I used a craft knife but a scorer would be perfect. Score two lines one on each side of the butterfly's body and bend the wings. Do this to 1/2 of the butterflies.

Step 3: Put glue on the body of the butterflies that were NOT scored and attach the scored butterflies lining them up so they look like one butterfly flapping it's wings.

Step 4: Take your needle and thread and tie a knot around your first bead.

Step 5: pull the thread through the center of the first butterfly and put a dot of hot glue on the top of the butterfly. The bead should be on the colored side of the paper if you are using one sided paper, and the glue dot on the opposite side. drop a bead onto the needle and thread so it rests on the hot glue knot another bead about an inch above the butterfly and another one an inch above that, and repeat. at the end of this step you should have 4 butterflies on 4 x 9" and 6 butterflies on 4x13" pieces of thread. (each thread should end with one bead floating an inch above the last butterfly.)

Step 6: Take one of the 4 butterfly threads and wrap it around the hoop until the floating bead is 1" away from the hoop. Put hot glue on the thread on top of the hoop to keep in place. Repeat this step opposite the first one and 1/4 the way around the hoop on both sides.

Repeat the previous step with the 6 butterfly threads in the middle of the 4 butterfly threads.

Step 7: Attach the ribbon the the same basic way the threads are attached, but cover the glue with ribbon and wrap it again covering the glue again making the ribbon point towards the cealling because that is how the mobile will hang.

Step 8: Sew together the ends of the ribbon make sure it hangs level.


Here are a few pictures of the one that I made... I think it turned out rather well.

 




 

I um yeah...

I am feeling a bit down today. This weekend has been a really good one but as of about an hour or so ago I just got really down. I feel like all I do is cook and clean... I don't even have a fully stocked kitchen. I am working on it though! Every week I am buying something new this week was a hand mixer... and some wonderful photos that I am actually designing my kitchen around. Next week I think I am going to get mixing bowls. Depending on our tax return I am getting my knives and/or my pan set...

I feel like I am always cleaning. I know people say that a clean house is pretty much impossible when you have children but I hate that I am so sick of my house being messy all the time. I feel like I am so far from the person I used to be. I didn't want to be that person forever but I didn't think I would be so far from it... I don't know what I want. And I don't know how to get what I want when I don't know what it is that I want... I feel lost and confused. I feel ugly and unimportant. I am also so sick of winter I could die!

So here is my rant for the day sorry it was so... Blah.