Crafty Birds!

Taking a break from the Korea posts to go over my latest craft project to put the finishing touches on my down stairs bathroom. In my original post Tweet Tweet Birdy Birdy I showed how I decorated my down stairs bath room with birds.

I decided that the wall decals were not enough. I also was thinking about what I will do when we move. I will either have to get a new wall decal (because this one is not reusable) or I would have to find a new way to decorate this room. I chose to find a new way to decorate while following the same theme.

My original idea was to get a white shadow box with glass on both sides. I would rough up the sides a bit to make it look more worn and rustic. I would then place  a birds nest inside with a couple blue eggs inside. I wanted to hang this over the toilet. Well, I went to a couple local craft stores as well as Target and Wal-Mart and I was unable to find a reasonably priced shadow box let alone one with glass on both sides. So I had to change my plans again and this is what I came up with....

I got all my supplies from Ben Franklin, the local craft store. To make these two birds nests cost less than just the shadow box alone.

I got two clay pots and put dry floral foam inside so I wold have a surface to glue the dried grass down to. I then gathered separate strands of the dried grass and glued them around the rim of the clay pot.

Once I had made a circle of grass around the rim, I started to add more grass to fill out the nest. I wold weave grass into the glued down grass or I would cut small strands about six inches long and I would put hot glue on each end and glue them down.

Once the nest looked full I added the birds. I found them by all the dried grass. I originally did not want to add birds to the nests but I just fell in love with them at the store. On the bottom of the bird was a clip that I just pulled out and I shaped the wire into a point to go through the foam.

Next I added the little eggs I made out of foam balls. I cut each ball in half and shaped them in to an egg shape and I panted them blue. I put a tooth pick in to the foam for the egg to sit on.

The final product....

I also found two cute little bird canvas pieces at the Anex on base. My bathroom is finally done! This is the first room I can actually say is complete!