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Today’s the $10 on the 10th Blog Hop, this month’s theme will be summer party!  Which I messed up the theme, I have my calender all messed up.  I had the theme written down as summer fun!  I am sharing some summer fun that can be easily used as a decorations for a summer garden party. 🙂   I am joining 4 talented bloggers to share our summer party ideas for under $10.  At the bottom of my page I will have all of the blogger’s summer inspiration for you! 🙂

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Do you like to decorate your gardens?  If you do, I have a little garden decoration for you today!  This is such a cute addition to your garden or even indoors.  This turtle made out of terracotta pots doesn’t take long to make and is super easy.  Below is my tutorial on how I made one for our garden.

Here are the items you will need:

• 4 mini Dollar Tree terracotta pots
• 1 small terracotta saucer
• 1 small styrofoam ball.  I used a Christmas ornament
• liquid nails or power grab
• two shades of green paint
• white and black paint
• something in a triangle shape for the tail.  I used a piece of potpourri

I mustard up enough energy to go up into the attic and get a Christmas ornament for the turtle’s head.  I found an old ornament that fell off of a wreath I had.  I am removing the foil covering.

Finding something for the turtle’s tail was a little challenging.  I looked through all of my crafting supplies, I had a box of potpourri.  I looked through the pieces to see if there was a piece the shape I needed.  I did find a couple pieces that would work perfectly for a tail.

Now that I have his head, tail and body it’s time to paint all the pieces.  The first paint I am using is the darkest shade of my green paint.  I painted two coats to each piece.  The ornament took about 4 coats to fully cover.

Once all the pieces were dry I added several pentagon shapes to the bottom of the sauces.  I made a template to make sure all my shapes were the same size.  I left a little space between each shape.  I made sure to do the sides as well.

Using the lighter color of green I outlined the shapes.

To fill in the pentagon shape I used a stiff brush and tapped on the paint.  I did a light coverage, I didn’t want the shapes filled in completely.

Taking some liquid nails adding it to the bottom of the mini terracotta pots.

Sit the 4 mini pots close together and place the saucer on top of all 4.  I added weight to the top to help secure the saucer to the pots.

Taking the painted ornament I painted a face on it with white and black paint.

Adding a dot of liquid nails to the saucer where you want to place his head.  I propped his head up until the liquid nails had time to set.

I added liquid nails to the end of the potpourri piece adding it under the saucer where I wanted to place his tail.  I used a clip to keep it secure until the glue dried.

I let it sit 12 hours.

I sealed him with two coats of spray sealer.

So….I forgot that spray sealer will eat styafoam.  So next time I will use a brush sealer. 🙁

Anywhere you place him he steals the show.  Doesn’t he look so darn cute?

You can make the turtle any size.  My baby turtle cost less than $5.  I purchased 2 packages of the Dollar Tree mini pots, (package comes with 3 pots).  I have 2 mini pots for another project.  I had the ornament on hand and the piece of potpourri.  It is such a cute craft to make with the kiddos too.

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