D.I.Y. Mossy Holiday Display

Hello lovelies!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  Today for our 18 Days Series we have a wonderful project put together by Cori of Cori Kindred.  Here's more from Cori on the simple how-tos for creating this fun Holiday decoration:

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This little holiday display has pretty much everything I love in it: lush moss, a pretty vintage dish, lovely vintage paper and a tiny little fawn.  Plus it's super easy and ridiculously cute!

Here's what you'll need:

• A bowl or dish
• Small block of floral foam
• Knife
• Glue (I like to use clear caulk)
• Scissors
• Moss (I used supermoss preserved sheet moss purchased at joann fabrics)
• Wire or toothpick
• Label (vintage or handmade)
• Little animal (I have vintage fawns for sale in my mushroom & moss vintage etsy shop)

Step 1: cut a block of floral foam that goes just a little bit higher than the dish you're using:

Step 2:  cut down the edges and cut little wedges to fill in the gaps.  glue foam pieces together and to the dish:

Step 3: cut out a square of moss a little bigger than your dish.  apply glue to the top of the foam.  while pressing the moss to the foam cut the moss a tiny bit smaller than the dish, and press down.  fill in any gaps with little pieces of moss:

Step 4: type or write on your label, and glue to the wire.  insert it into the moss and add your tiny animal.  yay!  so cute:

Thank you so much for sharing this adorable project with us Cori!  You can see more from Cori on her:
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Comments

[joanna goddard]

totally adorable!!!! thanks, cori! :) joannaxoxo

[Melissa de la Fuente]

Adorable! I love her and her shop and this little deer is the sweetest thing ever! :)
xo
Melis

[Morgan]

Very cute!!

[sabine, la marquise des anges]

this is so cute ... I have everything on hand reach and I will make it very soon . merci so much for sharing.

sabine

[sarah]

this is adorable!

[Laura Gaskill]

So, so cute - and it looks easy-peasy, too!

[vanessa]

Such a cute idea!!

[Madison]

I love it. What a wonderful idea. If only I had the time to do something other than complete presents for the holidays! I just realized this evening that I was putting off a present for a friend that's Jewish, but I'm almost out of time and only have 4 days to finish!!!

[Nancy Wolf]

Cori, this has to be the cutest xmas idea I've seen! I need to go find a tiny deer right now! Thanks for this!

nancy x
www.wolfandwillow.typepad.com

[pshaw]

Cori, you are SO creative!

[havepulse]

Um, the photos don't seem to match the topic

[Ez]

So odd. Thanks for letting me know about the mismatched photos. I have no idea how that happened. x Ez

[jules]

hey there,
absolutely beautiful! BUT, from experience working in the florist business I can only recomment you gals *not* to use floral foam - this stuff is nasty as hell, here a link to a blog (not mine) discussing this topic:
http://gorgeousandgreen.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/floral-foam-not-so-green/
i'll think of an alternative and will keep you posted!

xx,
jules