Crafting the Perfect IveyCraftHouse for You

One of my greatest-longest friends asked me about a hand made turkey. She had told me that she recently attended a craft show and couldn't find a hand made turkey, what!? So of course i challenged myself to make one. This guy, believe it or not took some thinking because i had never really thought about making a turkey before. After a couple days, i came up with a plan.....

***This is a list of tools and materials i used***

1.) I found the metal sunflower at Dollar General

2.)Metal cutters, hot glue gun, pliers, paint brushes & sponges

3.) Paint- i used red, white, yellow, orange and black. I also used some dark stain

4.) Small wood beads and a piece of twine for the hanger

5.) Round or any small piece of wood-about 4 inches in diameter

6.) a piece of wood to cut/shape into a triangle(nose)

7.) A piece of wood to cut/shape into a waddle

1. I took my metal sunflower and separated the front flower from the back. I had to use my metal cutters here because there were a couple of places that were soldered together. Then i took the front flower and cut it in half. I did take my metal cutters and tried to snip any and all jagged metal off and then i took a piece of sandpaper and smoothed all the edges as good as i could.

This is the final step, and that's putting him all together. I painted the center of the sunflower black and painted the "feathers" all white. Then i took my orange, black and yellow paint and graduated the colors up his feathers. Then i used my dark stain at the top and married it with the yellow and white paint. After that i painted the beak and the waddle. Next i found 2 tiny buttons and placed a dot of white paint on there for his eyes. My last and final step was to glue everything in place and thread my beads onto the piece of twine.

Get inspired to think outside the box like i did with this guy! My friend just thought he was the cutest little guy and i still have the other half to make another one.

This next DIY is a tray I redid that I found a couple years ago at Dollar General after Christmas. I believe I got it on clearance at 70%  off.....score!! Usually any time I find trays on sale or clearance, I snatch them up .

1.) Wooden Tray

2.) Plastic or Vinyl Placemat 

3.) Ribbon 

4.) Flowers 

5.) Hot Glue Sticks

6.) Glue Gun

7.) Paint

8.) Scissors 

9.) Sand Paper 

10.) Ribbon & Flower w/ Greenery 

My tray was all white with "Eat, Drink and Be Merry" painted in the center. I sanded the gold  script down as much as I could and used white acrylic paint  in a thin layer just on the body part of the tray to cover up the writing. Then I used black paint to paint a border on the top and sides of the center of the tray.

After the black border dried, I then took my placemat  and cut it to fit the area I wanted to cover.  I hot glued the placemat to the tray. I wasn't sure if I wanted it to be permanent and knew with hot glue, I could pop it off if I wanted to change it later.