Football Mum

Freshman cuties!

Let's start out with the finished product!  Here is my son with his beautiful girlfriend wearing the mum that I made for her!  Aren't they precious?!

 Here is a closer pic, although I know it is a bit hard to see, I think because of all of the black items that don't show up too well.  Anyway, the mum itself was white and gold.  I put a little black teddy bear in the middle of the flower.  She had her OWN little mum, and I made it light up!

 I spent quite a bit of time and effort on this one!  I think it was getting borderline gaudy, even then, I put a few more items on it!  ha

 Here is the whole thing, but again, all of the parts aren't even showing up.  I put around 5 lights on it, and it was "lit"!  lol
Thanks for looking!
~Shelley

Football Time in Texas...a football WREATH

 As soon as football season started this fall, I tried my hand at this Football/Mum wreath.
I purchased the base wreath at Michael's with some ribbons already on it.  I added a few more ribbons to get the colors I wanted...Gold and Black...colors for Mansfield High School, where my son attends and plays football!

 I knew I would want something on the wreath to add interest, so I made this small mum to put on the side of it.  I used a little tiger in the middle, and it has lights(you can't see them)!

 I was really practicing up, as I knew my son would be asking his girlfriend out for Homecoming, and that I would get to make her mum.  This one was a small one compared to the one I made her, but it was fun, and I liked the way it looked on our door.

As not to leave my daughter out, I let her put a couple of blue ribbons on the wreath to represent Wester Middle School, also!
 Overall, I was pretty pleased, and I'll be pulling this wreath back out again next year at football time!
Thanks for looking!
~Shelley