Crafting: Beautiful Spring Topiary!

I got to do another awesome craft with my mom!

I'm down here visiting while my hubby is away for work.

Here are the things you will need, except I ended up making a few trips to Hobby Lobby to get some more things:

3 bushes of boxwood

1 block of floral foam

1 styrofoam ball

some moss

1 planter or whatever you want to use for the bottom

a dowel rod

brown paint

paint for pot if painting it

ribbon for decoration

We worked on our pots first, so they had adequate time to dry..

Here's mom working on hers.

After the acrylic dried, we added crackle, and then added green.

The crackle was a rip off, it never worked. LOL

But the green was beautiful! We added a thin layer of that, & let it dry.

Here's mine!

Then I sponged some brown paint on there, and sanded the pot down to distress it a bit!

I love the finished look!

And onto the tedious part! So you cut these sprigs of boxwood apart, and place

them in the ball, ONE BY ONE. Oh my goodness. We each started off with one

bush, we ended up needing 2 1/2!

My kids thought I was nuts! This took up about 4.5 hours of time over a span of

3 days. It was getting old for sure! But so worth it!

When I reached the end, I really needed more sprigs, but instead I opted

to glue gun some scraps onto it! Worked perfect and I didn't

have to go buy another bush!

Here it is after I got it put on!

And here's mom finishing hers up!

And here they are! Aren't they beautiful?!

Mine's the yellow, and hers is the purple.

Had another great crafting time with my momma!

I love them! And it saved alot of money by making them ourselves.

I think we spent right over $20 making these, whereas the regular boxwood topiaries from

Ballard designs, run $49 & up! I'm all about saving the money!