I was wanting to make a soft white whispy flower to go with my very subdued Valentine banner. When I came across this picture of cotton I knew I wanted to make my own stem of cotton (without the thorns).

I saw this pom pom craft that Carolyn from Carolyn’s Homework did. SO CUTE.

I started out by cutting out some leaves in a black card stock paper that I had on hand.  I grabbed 3 black pipe cleaner, dark gray wool yarn, my hot glue gun and some cotton balls.   I made  tiny hole at the end of each leave and pushed 3 leaves up towards the top of 2 pipe cleaners then folded over the pipe cleaner so the leaves would stay in place.  (I used 2 for a little more strength).  I then took the last pipe cleaner and folded it in half then wrapped it onto the main stem.  I added 3 leaves to each of the branches.  I curled my leaves and molded them to hold my cotton.

I then took 6 cotton balls–2 for each one of the plants.  I loosened up the cotton, hot glued it to the bottom of each “pod”.  I then wrapped the stems with the gray wool yarn.  The last thing I did was add some little feathery grayish green fake greenery to the bottom of the underneath side of the leaves.

I put the stem of cotton into my weathered jar that I made {here}

I am entering this into this party: