Felicity McKane (she/her)

It’s all held up with hot glue!

is simply adorable and will add the perfect cozy touch to any home!We had a little adventure here a couple of weeks ago and it was pretty neat to watch actually, so I thought I’d share it with you!We have a lot of really big old maple trees on our property, with the four biggest ones kind of around the four corners of our house.

The very biggest one was right outside of our master bedroom window, but it had been dying a little more every year and making us more and more nervous with the big wind storms that we get out here all the time.It was a pretty tree though!.We’ve actually had three or four arborists come out to look at it over the last few years and they’ve all said that it really just can’t be saved.

Obviously you can’t tell when it’s mid-November and all the leaves are gone, but the whole front half right by the road was dead..So we had to have it cut down.

It was quite the impressive operation though!.

They started out by using this super-long chainsaw-on-a-stick thing to remove all of the smaller lower branches.. Then, we actually had to  have our power line to the house disconnected so that all the machinery could be moved in closer to the tree..I really should have remembered to take pictures when I had Kennedy helping me.

I need more hands!.You can also mix it up and do the same type of cuts on the non-folded side.. Use a bead of hot glue along the whole length of your strip to keep it folded in half .. Now comes the fun part where it all comes together!

Start rolling your flower up, using hot glue as you go to hold everything together.. Get the Kids Involved.When I made these with kids, I would have them cut their strips and cut their petals, and then I would have them come over to the “gluing station” so they could have me glue their flower for them.