Urban Hoot: What a Hoot!

This has been a long week. My son has been home sick from school for 3 days, and when he is home, I get nothing done! Wait, now that I think about it I don’t get a lot done when he is at school either…but I could if I wanted to! I have been stuck at home, unable to go thrift store shopping or to lunch with my friends. I mean, how terrible is that? Don’t you feel super sorry for me? I even had to postpone a girls trip to Hobby Lobby! :)

I am totally kidding…well kind of, but it was a long week and I HATE to see my son sick. Nothing is worse than having a sick child. The only positive thing is that he was way cuddlier than usual!

All week I have been wanting to make a burlap owl, but just couldn’t seem to motivate myself and was busy taking care of my child. Finally today, he was a little better and I found my motivation…yep with Hershey Kisses. NO, I am NOT addicted to chocolate! Sheesh, why would you think that?

This project was super easy, but it had a lot of little steps to it. For some reason, I took a picture of each step and ended up with like 15 pictures! Don’t worry, I won’t show you all the steps, just a few. Coolio?

Now, I am no artist so I needed some guidance in making my owl. My sister-in-law, Robin, gave me this adorable owl cutting board for Christmas, that I used as a guide.

Here is a list of things I used:

Burlap (which I did iron, ugh)
Cardboard
Scissors (mine are lame)
Adhesive spray
Felt – 3 different colors
A candy dish (to trace for the big round eyes, because I can not do perfect circles…I know it is hard to believe)
Buttons for the little eyes
Needle and thread
An orange sharpie (love sharpies)
Hot glue gun
A branch from outside
Yellow sticky stuff (no, that is not what it is called, but what I call it) to stick onto the walls