text: Paper Vernissage: Dollar Store Eye Ball
  Dollar Store Eye Ball
  I love visiting "dollar stores" as some of you may know. You never know what you're going to find there and how you might use it. Saturday I had some time to myself in the afternoon and was able to visit one of my favorite dollar stores - Dollar Tree. I was looking for something particular for Boss's Day but I came away with a basketful of things as usual. I was in the mood to do some Halloween crafting and I came up with this project - an Eye Ball.
  The ingredients included 2 bags of wiggly eyes ($2), one styrofoam ball ($1), a small ceramic incense burner ($1), a twist tie, glue, toothpicks, and screen scraps which I already had on hand, and some glitter (which was an after thought I'll relate below).
  I spilled out the wiggly eyes and started gluing them to the styrofoam ball, but I thought it needed a little more, so I got the glitter and also a pie pan to help control the mess. Once I decided to do that, I realized that I would not be able to hold it without the eyes sliding all around in the glue so I stuck a toothpick into the ball to help me hold it as I worked and used another toothpick to help spread the glue. After the eyes were on a section, I sprinkled the glitter on to fill in the gaps between them, tapping off the extra into the pie plate. I continued this until the entire ball was covered. Then it had to sit and dry for a while.
  While it was drying, I took the strip of screening (this is flexible plastic screening leftovers) and gathered it into a bow using the twist tie in the center. I used the tails of the twist tie to wrap around the incense burner and then set the Eye Ball on top. Voila! Total cost $4.
  I did take a soft brush the next day and gently brushed off the errant glitter. I'm planning to put this on my counter at school - do you think it's too creepy for 3rd-5th graders?
  Posted by Lorraine at 4:46 PM
  Filed Under: $ Store Makeover, General Crafts, holidays
  Sabrina 10/12/10, 7:06 AM
  Not being into Halloween really, I wasn't sure what to expect when I read your post title. But oh my - it's just totally fun, not creepy at all. The screen bow is brilliant! I bet you'll get loads and loads of comments from people who see it on your desk.