Decorative art pillow
Categories: Gifts, Pillow
During the last week living in our North Carolina residence our kids were feeling sentimental. To give them one last taste of living in the city we spent an afternoon checking off our things “to do one last time” list. We chose to kayak down the intercoastal, dine at our favorite waterside side restaurant, walk on the beach and go to our favorite ice cream shop. We took plenty of photographs to remember our 6 years in North Carolina, but the children wanted a little something more. Over the years and many walks we collected shells of every shape and size, sea glass, fish nets, drift wood and shark teeth. We went through our collected finds from the sandy shoreline and we decided to save the shark teeth and small shells for jewelry and make a memory pillow from the things we had collected. My sons favorite find was a chunk of netting found after a storm. We had to incorporate it into the pillow and that was when we decided to make molds of the seashells and starfish. We were not sure how the shells would hold up to a 700 mile move. So our pillow creation began and it developed as we went along. The very last touches were the stamped images that my daughter thought resembled seaweeds. Little by little the pillow came together.
What you need to make this project
- Materials
- Nature-Fil™ Corn Fiberfill
- Cotton Napkin
- Netting
- Supplies
- Basic sewing supplies
- Americana SoSoft Fabric Acrylics - Indian Turquoise, White, Grey Sky, Black Starfish in two sizes
- Starfish in two sizes
- Original Sculpey® - white Polyform™ Sculpey® Mold Maker, 8 oz
- Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks