Up, Up, and Away

Yesterday I started the first of many crafts to decorate Addy's new room.  I am trying to use materials I have around the house so that I do this redo on the cheap.  I saw a post on pinterest where the blogger took string, dyed it using food coloring and mod podge, after soaking it they wrapped it around the ballon and let it dry.  After all was said and done, they had beautiful little hanging balls.  After much consideration, I changed the process a bit, and got started on my ballon ball.

Materials Needed:
Yarn of any color enough to wrap around the ballon numerous times

Ballons of any size and color

Mod podge (or glue and water if you want to make your own)

A paint brush

A bowl

First I found the color yarn I wanted.  I used red, because I knew where the red yarn was, but any color will do just fine.  I tried submerging the yarn in mod podge and wrapping, but that was a complete disaster.  I decided to wrap my yarn around the ballon dry. It was a little hard to keep it from slipping off, but you will get the hang of it after a few wraps.  It isn't important that the yarn is perfectly tight or even across all of the surfaces.  The more random the better.  In the end it will look great no matter how the yarn goes on the ballon so try not to stress about perfection as I tend to do.

 Next I began painting on the mod podge.  It is important to make sure you cover all of the string with the mod podge.  You want it to be wet and sticky.  I poured the mod podge in a bowl and painted it on using an old paint brush I had laying around.  At first I just held the ballon by the top, but after a few coats of glue, I used a chip clip and hung the ballon from one of the cabinets in my laundry room.  It slipped off and fell many times before I finally got it to stay and shockingly, it didn't manage to damage the ballon in the slightest.

After you are completely done applying the mod podge, simply leave the ballon to dry.  I did mine around noon and let it dry overnight.  It was perfectly dry and ready for popping by then, so if you can manage to be patient, just walk away come back

tomorrow,  It will be heavy and look white, but don't worry, the glue will dry clear and shiny. 

 The next morning walk in and check your ballon.  Touch it and see if it is still tacky and soft.  If it is stiff and shiny, take a needle and simply pop the ballon.  Then pull the ballon out from the interior of the yarn ball.  See the pictures below to see how it turns out, and find a wonderful place to hang and enjoy!!  I will show pictures of how I used the balls to decorate when I do the final room redo debut.  So once again, you will have to be patient :).