Wednesday, October 28, 2009

How to Make a Moss Ball

I love the natural look of moss spheres…pbmoss Image taken from Potterybarn.com

ballard Image taken from Ballarddesign.com

I was over at a friend’s house helping her with a project when I took it upon myself to redecorate her mantel she asked me to help her with her mantelscape.

She had this little vase/urn thing with nothing in it. So I took it home to give it a little makeover and to give her mantel a little more height and texture.

Dollar Store spanish moss + styrofoam ball + a hot glue gun

IMG_0597 I was careful not to burn myself and that moss stuff makes a MESS!

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After I had all the moss in place I have her a haircut…

IMG_0599 and tied a little ribbon at the bottom to give it a little sumptin’ sumptin’.

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15 comments:

  1. I love moss, and I have worked with it many times. Your project turned out so nice! Lovin it!

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  2. Cute! I love moss balls. Must have more.

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  3. Adorable and do-able for even this non crafty mom!

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  4. they have moss at the dollar store?? who knew? it's really cute!

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  5. Ahhh, "height" and "texture." Two of my favorite words! I love the look of moss, it's greenery without the required "green thumb." (which I don't have...:))

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  6. That looks great!! Thanks for sharing! I may have to attempt this :)

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  7. Looks great. I didn't realize how easy it would be.

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  8. I to think that I bought my mossy ball. Maybe I can give mine the much needed face lift that it needs.

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  9. It turned out great!! Your friend is so lucky you took it upon yourself...I mean she asked you to redecorate!!

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  10. This looks great! I wouldn't never thought to make those myself.
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  11. Oo la la!! I have some of that Dollar Tree moss...will give this one a whirl sometime. :)

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  12. This is too funny. I was cleaning my barn (full of florals, crafts, xmas) today and saw a box of styrofoam balls and thought "I need to make some moss balls!" Then I check my emails and here's your post. Too much. Thanks for the inspiration (kick in the pants :)

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  13. Awesome idea! Awesome tute! I featured these at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com

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  14. What a nice friend you are! Love how it turned out. Thanks so much for linking to me, I appreciate it!

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  15. I love this idea. I love the idea of bring outside in. I want to do this.

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