A Bucket of Fun!

Last week on Crafting Tuesday you barely got anything, because I had a tough week and didn't have much time for crafting. This week you are going to get some links! Why so many links? My amazing friends shared the with me when I was having trouble deciding what to do with all of these pine cones! So let's get started!

Martha Stewart

Craftaholics Anonymous

A Fanciful Twist

Why didn't I do any of these amazing things? Because they all, everyone, require more than just some pine cones and some ingenuity. Did I try?  Yes.  Did it work? Nope. Why no pictures?  Because I am too lazy to go into another room to get my tablet and photograph crafting disasters. I have some nice painted cones that I will probably mix with the lilac scented wax ones from last week into a bowl for decor in a bathroom this winter. Other than that Operation Bucket of Pine Cone was a total meltdown.

However, I did do a thing! Last weekend I purchased a hand drum. Similar to a tambourine but no cymbals. This one boasted a natural skin that I was dying to paint.  A field of grass and a field of stars with borders painted in red and yellow for fire and air. The paint improved the tone of the drum and now I have to decide if I want to play it or sell it.

Over the next couple of weeks I will be highlighting some amazing folks who do crafts.  One or two of them are much more than crafters, but would never see themselves that way. Love what I am doing and want to see more?  I am now on Patreon.

What DO You do With a Five Gallon Bucket of Pine Cones?

My family is moving!  We are relocating to the great Southwest. Tucson to be precise.  We don't know when yet, but Sar has the job and we are ready to go! Before we do though there is one craft project that has been lurking in the craft cabinet for so long I don't even know when we collected them.  A five gallon bucket of pine cones.  I know that one of us probably said oh we can do something with them.  They are pretty and they smell good.  Then they sat, and sat...and well you get the idea.  We have been in this house for just over two years, I don't know how long this bucket has been sitting; I'm just hoping we didn't move them from Michigan!

So step one:  Waxing nostalgic...if there is one thing that I am never short of it is candles...right up until I need/want them for a project.  I did manage to find four.  They were even in Lilac my favorite scent.  I melted the candles (5 minutes in a microwave safe bowl for four votives) and rolled the pine cones in the wax.  I then poured the left over wax over the nine cones I had managed to coat.

Result?  My house smells amazing right now. Light purple is not darker then brown and thus the cones just look a little shiny.

I haven't tried burning them yet, but I have been told that they will make great fire starters...and they will smell great too!  That's all I am going to have for this week due to time constraints.  Hopefully we will have much more next week.

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