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I remember learning the song "America, the Beautiful" in the fall of first grade.  I still remember where my teacher magically wrote the lyrics and drew pictures to the song on the chalkboard.  Maybe it is because of this that I have such a love for this song, or maybe it's because as a young child I was taught and felt a great love for our country.  Several years later while I was trying to figure out how to decorate the "piano room", I saw an enlarged, framed piece of music in a magazine, and I knew I wanted to create something similar.   I had this old poster frame (size 13"x 37"), an old music book with "America, the Beautiful" in it, some butcher paper, a yardstick, and a half dollar. 

I penciled out the entire project first, using a yardstick to measure the staff lines, and a half dollar to trace the notes.  Then I traced over the pencil marks with a black sharpie and filled  in the notes.  I love how it turned out.  It has faded a bit, but I like it just as much.

Yesterday I shared some of my projects for the elementary school's holiday shop.  Unfortunately all the photos wouldn't load for me, so here are a few more of the things that I made.

My daughter actually helped me come up with the idea for these necklaces!  (I will give a tutorial later)  Between the glass beads are her turquoise sparkle snowflake sequins!  The pendants would look especially pretty on a nice silver chain, but again, this is for a kid's craft shop so I had to keep my costs down and use cording instead.

Here are some little wreath ornaments from the same Dollar Tree Christmas garland that I used to line the wand bucket and to shape the snow queen's head wreath!  I just gave the whole strand a trim and shaped into little wreaths.   Then I added red velvet ribbon bows and a little green foam holly leaves.

Poinsettia pins... I cut two "fat" stars out of felt (one larger than the other).  Then I stacked and hot glued the smaller one on a diagonal on top of the larger one.  I hot glued a silver sequin and bead on top, and then glued them to pins that I picked up awhile ago from Hobby Lobby for a birthday party craft.

So that's all for now, though I am working on some other projects (gifts) that I will share soon.  I hope you have a fabulous day!  Thanks for visiting!

~Robyn

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