Burlap Carrots Tutorial

Recently a friend of mine found these adoreable carrots on pinterest.

I went to pinterest and I thought I would type up my version of how to put them together. 

Cost me around $4.50 and is super cute to boot!!

isnt she just the cutest thing ever??

Step 1: 

purchase 1 yard of orange burlap for about 3 large carrots

 (I found mine at Hobby Lobby)

Find some fun spriggy fillers in the floral department

(Mine was left over from christmas decor)

purchase one roll of ribbon

If you don't already have any poly fil get some of that, or I have seen people use plastic grocery store bags as filler!

Supplies:

scissors, glue gun, pony tail holder

Step 2:

Cut the burlap into a triangle shape.

Then use the hot glue gun and glue the two angled sides and the bottom together.

Step 3:

Fill the carrots with poly fil

Step 4:

Gather the carrot at the top and attach an elastic ponytail holder.

Step 5:

Stuff the green "spriggy" filler in the top of the carrot and tie a cute knot of ribbon around the carrot.

Step 6: 

Attach a small piece of ribbon or twine to the backside of the carrot to have something to hang the carrot from.

Hang and enjoy!!

(somehow through an update the images have rotated and become distorted, locating the original image to repost for y'all!)

The other two are hanging on my gate!!

(and they need some filler!)

Love having something bright and cheery to drive up to!

Old Wives tales

Okay so i have been debating on this post for a long time now...

My dad is OBSESSED with the 1 trillion uses for Vinegar. Then today at work several of the ladies were talking about all that onions can do....

Here are a few things you may not know.

1. if your child is teething put an egg in a brown bag (place over their bed or near their bed) when they are done teething the egg will be completely empty. {i personally didnt know about this one till today, but seeing as we are still cutting our 1 yr. molars i think i will give it a try}

2. If you are sick fill a teaspoon with locally polinated Honey.

3. when planting roses plant a metal coffee can with it. The can will begin to oxidize and release zinc into the soil making the blooms much richer in color and the soil much healthier.

4. pour coffee grinds on ferms and they will grow like crazy.

5. old tagline: red in the morning sailors warning, red at night sailors delight. (my pawpaw was a merchant marine so he would always say that one.)

6. if you have eggs that are about to go bad plant them with some new plants and the raw eggs will fertilize the soil

7.if you have slugs pour a can of beer in a shallow round pan and the slugs will all migrate to it and explode, {preventing you from having to put salt everywhere}

8. and my absolute most favorite is..... if you have really really really dry skin, crisco!!! its all natural and your body wont have reactions to any chemicals found in lotions.