Fall Moss Garden Centerpiece

Here is a really fun centerpiece you can make for your Halloween/Autumn table. And....it's so simple!! To make a moss garden you need:

large clay saucer 

fresh moss

gravel

coffee filter

drill

rich soil

Paint (optional)

Mod Podge

• Take your saucer and paint it the color you would like. Once paint is dry, give it a coat of mod podge
• Drill a couple of holes into the bottom of the saucer for drainage.
• Line the bottom of the saucer with a coffee filter (to keep the dirt from draining out).
• Put a layer of gravel on the bottom of the saucer for drainage.
• Add a layer of wet dirt.
• Place moss (that has been carefully removed from the earth) on top of the gravel and lightly water it. Misting is the best option. In fact, to keep the moss healthy, you should mist it everyday.
• Add fall or Halloween decorations!!

 For my decorations, I used some polymer clay and made the shape of a Cinderella pumpkin and a great horned owl. Then, I painted them. The sign is made from a toothpick, a craft stick, some wood glue and some paint. 

The moss really provides a great setting for an autumn centerpiece. It is so verdant and plush, and kind of eerie at the same time. Let me know if you make one...I'd love to see what everyone else came up with!!

I joined these linky parties (Check them OUT!!):

Frugalicious Friday

Works For Me Wednesdays
Whatever Goes Wednesdays @Someday Crafts
Thrifty Thursday
It's Party Time@ Pony tails and Fishscales
Frugalicious Friday 

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Rabbit Hutch

Isn't it just awesome what a little wood glue and some popsicle sticks can do?? Here's what I made last night. It's a little rabbit hutch for my Munchkins collection of plastic bunnies. It's the perfect place for a rabbit rendezvous.  I also made her a new lop eared bunny out of polymer clay (another medium I **love** to work with), paint, and a coating of Mod Podge for durability:

Aw. Isn't he just the sweetest? I'm not really tooting my own horn (that just doesn't sound appropriate to me) when I say he's the sweetest....I'm saying I love lop eared bunnies in any form!! Love them. 

Here are some of the lop's friends in the hutch. These guys, I did not make. I used some soft screening material to make this part of the hutch. The door also has a hinge on it, so you can swing it wide open and let the bunnies go crazy in the clover. 

Lop's pretty happy, I'd say. So is my Munchkin. :-)

Here are the parties I linked up to:

Works For Me Wednesday
Thrifty Thursday
Flaunt It Friday
Frugalicious Friday
It's Party Time Thursday 

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