Easter Topiary

Around the blog community I kept seeing wreaths made from cupcake holders. They really caught my eye. They are just adorable. Well one day I was at my local thrift store and happened to come across these little topiary foam thingies for $.50. I couldn't pass them up. They made me think of the wreaths everyone had been making for Valentine's day. I thought I could make a topiary instead. Then a few days later I had to run to the drug store and they just happened to have the small Easter cupcake holders marked down to 3 for $1.00. SCORE! I couldn't pass those up either. The lady asked me what I was going to do with all of them. She was very interested when I told her I was going to make a topiary out of them.



One night my friend Andrea from Do's to Choose and I had a craft night together. I knew this would be an opportunity for me to actually finish a project.


So I just twisted the bottom of each cupcake paper and applied them to the foam with hot glue. I ended up using 3 packages of 75 holders. So 225 cupcake holders. Yes my fingers hurt after a while. I think it turned out pretty darn cute. Grand total spent$2.00. I already had the green grass (from a gift,) buttons and ribbon (also from a gift). I spray painted the $.50 pink pot that was in my thrift store loot. I used Heirloom White by Rustoleum.


Here it is sitting in our house. Another idea I had for it was to use moss instead of the shredded easter paper. I didn't have any moss so I used the paper instead.



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