When cleaning my craft room, I found some wooden acorns. In keeping with the use it or lose it mentality I am approaching with my crafts, I decided to use these on the wreath.

I wanted some bling, so I tried to color the acorns gold with a Sharpie. This is doable, but takes awhile. So I found a partial can of gold spray paint and sprayed the other acorns using a cardboard box for a spray guard. I used up the paint too! One less thing in storage, yay!

I used a small gimlet to drill holes across the tops of the acorns, then used gold colored aluminium wire (because it is light and very malleable) to make picks. I have more precise control of the gimlet. A drill press or hand drill goes faster but I usually slip at least once. For just 7 holes, the gimlet was perfect.

To complete the picks, I twisted the wire. Here is a demo.

With the picks complete, I tucked them asymmetrically into my wreath. It does add a little shine.

The final frontier…. oh wait no. Extra space in my craft room, which is infinitely more exciting to me. I turned my storage bins 90 degrees and increased the shelf space by 30% or so. That there is space gold.

And yes, I am a serial crafter. I’m working on it, really. I have plans for stash busters, and I’ve been going through the bins, removing partial projects that I won’t go back and finish. There are some interesting things tucked away in those bins. Things I obviously stuck in there because there was room and I didn’t have to think about what to do with it at the time. Storage is both a boon and a curse. I filled a garbage bag with bits and bobs and each thing that went in there went with the thought “Why in the world did I keep that?!?” And the answer in all cases was that I could.