Leprechaun Trap

So I'm not a very consistent poster. I'll get over it. My latest project was completed with the 'help' of my 7-year-old. He was asked to make or draw a leprechaun trap for school. Being the over-achiever I am, I mean, he is, we decided to build a trap. Here is that story.

Here is our sad little shoe box. Since he didn't bring me a pair of shoes as perfect as advertised, he volunteered for our project to redeem himself.














G and I used Mod Podge. After reading all about it on various blogs, I decided this was the perfect time to try it. Mod Podge, G and I should never be allowed in the same room again. We were all covered - worse than the box. We covered the box with green and purple tissue with a maze design on it. (You can't see the design very well in the pictures.) Then we added some cardstock four-leaf clovers and a front panel (where we ran out of tissue).

We added a pot of gold (filled with glass marbles) and a rainbow to entice the leprechaun.

When he reaches for the pot of gold, the leprechaun will knock over the straw and be trapped in the box.

I'm glad it's going to school. I want G's teacher to have to explain why he couldn't catch a leprechaun. He's very excited about having one as his friend.


Suz

Pictures - How hard can they be?

I've never posted pictures to a blog, so I will be attempting it now. Here are the projects I was working on this weekend. Please note that we did get clips for the ferret hammock...at Home Depot.

Here is my sewing machine cover I made from One Yard Wonders



I love this fabric. How girly can it get?


Here is the hammock I made for our business (a group of ferrets). I don't have a before picture, just the picture of content animals.


Here is a close up of our babies.


Next up:
Another hammock
Aprons for Gabe and me (He has recently expressed interest in being a chef only until he grows up at which point he wants to be a police officer. Hopefully he'll grow out of that...Sorry dad.)
Painting the boys bunk beds (I've had the paint for a month now.)

I'll let you know how everything turns out!

Suz