she made mushrooms from WHAT??!!!

it's my birthday month - and when you combine that with my crazy theme of 

March Mushroom Madness  

you come up with this festive creation!
since my bday is this week, i decided this is the right time to share them!

have you figured out what i used to make them yet?

continue reading to see the details...

yep, it's champagne corks!

while not perfectly 'mushroom' shaped, the resemblance is there...
and since i have a whole glass jar filled with corks, why not use 'em?!

i painted the corks two ways:
two of them are white and yellow, with some small gold accents.
two of them are gold and yellow, with some white accents.
it's all done with acrylic paint and alcohol paint pens.

on the right above, there's a wine cork painted gold...
my plan was to glue it to the bottom of the smaller gold & yellow 'shroom cork
to make it taller in a container - but it ended up i didn't need to.
still a good way to vary the sizes of a group of 'shrooms!

once painted and dry, i inserted short wood skewers into the bottoms of the corks
to sit deeper in the 'filler' and help hold them up in the containers.

i used mossy green eyelash yarn as the 'filler', to add texture.
the two containers shown above are a ceramic cup and a milk glass bowl.


a ceramic egg cup and a miniature cup are in perfect scale to hold a 'shroom each.

to create a tiny arrangement under a glass dome,
i added a wood lid from a candle jar under the cup,
and a stemless wine glass on top - it fit inside just exactly:

i've used this stemless wine glass as a cloche / dome idea before,
in some spring tablescapes:

see more about these tablescapes in this post!


related posts:

thrifted knit beanie mushrooms

pyrex bowl mushrooms

pom pom mushrooms

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