Paper Parasols.

I love them. Bright, colorful, cheap and versatile. I made this wreath some months ago, you might remember it, or maybe you´ve just seen it somewhere on the net, there are quite a lot of versions of this:

I´ve been such a black and white person during the last years, but this year, I really begin to appreciate the beauty of all shades of the rainbow, and this project is just adding one more colorsplash to our home.

And I´m loving this wreath so much I made it something to go with:

This baby took quite a while, and it got finished shortly before we went to Moscow. Basically, you cut off the sticks of the paperparasols, and glue them, with a hot glue gun, to a white rice paper lantern. I stole mine from Miro´s room. Souns simple.
But it´s quite timeconsuming. It took me several afternoons, especially because I underestimated the amount of parasols needed (I needed around 150), and because apparently they aren´t equally colordevided in their packs - there are always more red parasols than any other color. And since I didn´t want same colors to touch, I had to buy quite a lot of parasol packs.
But hey, my kids liked sorting them for me, opening them and snipping off the little sticks.
And the result?

I really like it. And it looks a lot better in real life than on the pic. But maybe you go and try this yourselves?

Music for today?

I hadn´t known this song until I found it yesterday in some craft video about folding stars. It was in the charts, actually, at some point of history, and I think it really deserves it, because it´s awesome! I´m surrounded by Tyrranosaurs Rex and Transformers all day long, oh, I can so relate to this!