Crafty Sisters: Snowman Cubes

Snowman Cubes

I fell while keeping my camera, taking the pine cone wreath pictures. I stood up on an ottoman, and it tipped. I loaded the presence in.I was capable to pry the front lens back into shape enough for it to function, but the pictures are all blurry. Santa, do you believe you could charge me a new camera.preferably a Canon Rebel?

I have been coveting them at Costco. I was at a cub scout pack meeting and I spottedthe Costco cameraright away on one of the moms. She asked if I would hold a painting of her home while he was awarded. One shot, and I was hooked! I was swooping in left and right capturing thisgreat moment with their family! (he,he)I went into the camera store to get a little infoand found out they have built in HD Video. Is that enough to convince my husband.uh, Santa? :)

So, here are some blurry pictures of these cute snowman blocks!

Ear muffs.or no ear muffs?

I made a dozen of these guys for the boutique Nicole's been mired in. The ear muffs took some time to make, I gave up after three. The low day of the boutique, a lady bought the three with the earmuffs. Later that night,I spent a pair of hours making8 sets of earmuffs. Clipping pieces of felt with wire, then attaching them to pipe cleaners.

All of them sold, except one lonely snowman I missed.

They are extremely easy to make.Nicole gave me a 4x4 post that we chopped into cubes.

I gave them a good sanding, using a belt sander. (scary.but cool tool)

Chopped up some noses and pasted them on.

I afterwards gave them all a nose job, because their noses were too big for their face. :)

I pulled out my trusty celluclay and texturized them.

After drying, I sanded and then painted white.

Then I added Snow-Tex. Love this stuff. I wiped itaround the edges and the nose.

Then I Mod Podged and added some glitter. These snowman blocks are actually cute with plain old paint, if you don't need to hassle with the grain and glitter.

I think it'sreally tricky making a snowman's face cute.

I have made many, many ugly snowman faces. You can break it with the nose shape, or by the eyes.

To do it easier, I found some tacks and spray painted them black.

Nicole showed me this illusion of sticking them into cardboard for easy spray painting.

I drilled holes and pasted the tacks into the block.

Much easier then trying to make a look on. It was so funny watching my boy's faces when I would add the eyes, nose, and mouth. The small one would stop and laugh every time I added the earmuffs. I got a flush out of watching them.

We had our first small snowfall,

my boys managed to scrape enough snow out of the yardto make their own snowman. Cute!

Speaking of cute.here's a taste of what Nicole was making. I had to hitch a video of her tray full of infant Jesus ornaments that sold like hotcakes! Love these!