DIY Dollar Tree All New Football Frame

hi guys welcome to my crazy life it's

lori and today i've got a dollar tree

diy for you that i hope

you're as excited about as i am i do

have

my hello pumpkin mug that i got at hobby

lobby for 40

off oh my gosh it is wonderful

it's so big and it's microwave and

dishwasher safe

hashtag not sponsored all right so we

are going to make a diy with

these items the pumpkin

frame and the pumpkin nose no

football we're going to use the football

frame

i have a few items in here that may or

may not get utilized but we have

some cream colored uh

felt a bunch of this dollar tree

nautical rope in the brown now i

couldn't find it

but i know they sell the nautical rope

in white

but i do have this so i'm going to

utilize this is just

very similar to the nautical rope um i

don't even know where i got this

but so i'm using this but you can use

the dollar tree stuff

and then i'm going to use some ribbon it

is football themed so we're going to use

some scarlet and gray

go box or if you don't want to make it

for a

team you can just use some burlap you

can also use this burlap

for what i'm doing so we have all that

now i do have something that was sent to

me to show you and this is from the

monvic

brand m-o-n v-i-c-t

it's a glue gun like the one i use but

it stands up

and it does have two temperature

settings which is really nice

so low and high

but we're gonna put it on setting one

it came with a dozen glue sticks and

their glue sticks

this takes the big ones not the small

but the big fatties

came with a dozen of those and also came

with some silicone fingertips which was

really great

i think it was like 25 dollars but i

like it because

it stands up on its own and i love these

that's my

my white one does that and this is just

a little bigger

and it has a plug so you can

you know unplug it if you need to run

some really quickly now

mine is battery powered as well this one

is not

just as a heads up and like i said this

was sent to me

um for trial so we're going to try it

today i don't have a whole lot of glue

going on but we're going to glue a

little bit

and that is everything i just need to

let that come to temperature

let's reset and again you can use

any color of anything to do this this is

where i'm coming from

but you could also use ribbon and weave

through to do what i'm doing

but i'll show you

all right so what i'm gonna do is remove

the tag

and you can do this circular but i'm

choosing to do it flat i want to hang it

or use it for a center piece or as a

part of another

wreath but honestly all i'm doing

is feeding my rope into this end and

we're gonna weave it

i'm not even gluing it yet because i

needed to have

some flexibility um so i'm going in here

now if you see these are real small i'm

untwisting the rope just a tad so it

gets into that corner

and then we're gonna go over under over

under just a basic

basket weave and i think i'm gonna need

about five of these ropes

so over under right so let me show you i

have got one started just so you can see

a little better

and so that's what the bottom is going

to look like right we're doing the over

under now that i'm at this spot i am

going to glue down

this little tail that's in in place if

this is hot enough if not i'll come back

i don't know

see this is the first time i'm using it

all right i got that in there the handle

i can tell you the handle moves pretty

good

so let's see oh yeah oh guys that comes

out

really well

that's interesting i like it i would say

it's definitely

in line with the one i got at joann it's

a little bigger it has larger glue

sticks and i like that

the heat control so you can make it more

you know hot or less

but that got me a really big glob oops

don't touch it

i'm not burning myself because it's not

it's at that stringy temperature

but we'll leave that to cool in there

and we're going to continue and i when i

get to the end i just wrap it over

and we're going to go one more time

across on this and then we're going to

cut it off

and change it to the white so

we're just going

oh and it's just a basket weave however

you think you could do this the quickest

maybe sit in front of your tv now i do

give it a good

tug i want it nice and tight

and eventually i may go back in and glue

but at this point i haven't really glued

anything

to the together there we go

and that's the last row i'm using these

vertical rows

as to where to put my white um oh you

need scissors

and i am gonna give myself a fairly

large tail

to glue because i want to glue this

and i want it to be very secure so we're

going to get the glue gun out again

i am enjoying this guys um i will have

to buy

more hot glue for sure

and then we're just gonna hold that

right there and let it cool

and set up right easy peasy

lemon squeezy i don't know where that

glue came from

but there don't take a second so that's

what my inside looks like

you could even use this if you did

everything on the outside and put this

on a base you could use it as like a

bread basket

or snacks or for a football game or you

could put some

false stuff in it and not even call it a

football just make it like a

a table top vessel if you will but i'm

making mine just like a football because

i have high hopes guys if there will be

football this year

ohio has determined that the kids are

practicing

however they haven't really done much

other than that

all right i'm gonna do two to three rows

of this

white i obviously i can't feed that

whole thing through so i'm just going to

give myself a fair amount

cut it off

down here and then decide where i

started i want to

or where i stopped i want to start now i

do before i get moving here

i do want to put a little glue here

i'm just going to attach the one end i

don't want to do them all but i feel

like i need to

just on this last little loops

just get a tad bit of glue okay guys i'm

loving this glue gun

i like it because it gives you a good

amount of glue

just saying all right we are going to

start

on the same side that i finished

just to make things easier and it also

gives me a nice

place

to secure this white rope because i

don't want it

um you know unraveling itself

now the white robe is smaller and it's

cotton

but you just do whatever rope you can

find and you know what else would work

if your store has clothesline

you could do that in clothesline if you

can find one especially for your sports

teams

colors or the paracord would work for

this

so you could do like maybe some if you

wanted to do a football team

you could do the ends in brown some

white and then your team's color i mean

there's really no

there's no rhyme or reason here you do

this how you want

now i could have went with two

thickness of the white to kind of mimic

but i think that would be too big but i

could if you want it to go faster

you can do that so here's what i'm doing

i'm just going to weave it in

and out under over under over

now i knew i was going to have a little

issue on this one side but i'll get it

in there

there we go and there's your first row i

think

three or four is gonna be with these um

just because i can tell already that

this white is much smaller

and then we're gonna just weave it i

mean this is it's gonna be a little time

consuming but to be honest with you

it's the easiest thing you're going to

do i've seen a lot of this going on on

youtube and pinterest

this style of weaving with the metal

frames

this one woman i wish i could remember

her channel did something similar but

she

cut it off here and hung them as like

light sconces

um i'm not making sconces but i am

making a football

that i am going to use i think as a wall

probably a wall hanging so there that

feels better to me

so now i'm going to go this way and if

you want

you can take your end you can maybe even

tape off your ends i didn't

but depends on your rope too

so let's go

so i think we'll go two more one more

time around

all right and it's in there now i need

that to set up and then we're gonna go

back

to this color and i'm gonna weave it all

the way across and we'll come back when

i get over here

okay we got everybody up here to the

white

now see how loose that is it's okay it's

because it's going downhill

now what i'm going to do i made sure i

had plenty of

slack to tighten it up but we want to i

don't want to do the brown

into this corner i want to start in this

corner because it's such a tight fit

and one of my little prongs pop but i

think we're going to be okay

so i'm going to stick this piece and

untwist it a little bit just like the

other end

in here now what's funny is i have a

couple

um or one of the 13 foot

older of these

and then now i have um oh wait actually

you know what i want to do start out

here

and then i have the rest are nine and a

half feet so i'm using

almost four but that kind of just

depends on which size

rope you have so we just want to really

get this in here now because this one

wire is broken i'm going to glue this to

that one

wire

there we go i just want the rope to hold

on to that one

wire that popped loose sorry if you're

not seeing it

super well um but then we're gonna come

up and around and the ends i'm not

overly worried about

and we're gonna just weave it in and out

in and out

it's fiddly at the bottom but

once you get all of the rope in place

it will um it's not bad you just want to

make

sure you get it kind of tight down here

and really in

oh you're not seeing me i'm just weaving

hold on let me get this one row done and

then i'll show you

i'm going to put that right there

because that's going to get glued up

there

all right let's glue this end in place

so i'm going to glue that just like the

other end

i'm just not waiting at this point

because it's frayed

so let's see let us twist it

and pinch it now watch your fingers this

glue is hot

obviously it's a hot glue gun and again

i'm going to get this tightened in here

it's i'm going to have to take out

another piece of rope

but i don't want to waste either and i

wouldn't have a use really for this tiny

piece

so while that's drying i'm just making

sure everybody's tucked in place

and you just want to like pull it it's

fiddly at first

but again once you

start getting the rest of the rope in

it's not as

fiddly

just like that and then you just each

row

when it's down here and tight you really

want to give it a good tug

and then around sorry around

up under over

under over there you go

and it kind of down here it also

tightens itself

when it gets into that little groove all

right

so i'm gonna finish and then i'll show

you

when i get back up here to where it's

tight but i gotta change off my string

my rope so now what we're doing

i've got it attached i'm at the under

we're gonna actually thread it through

because i want to get it in there really

tight

so i'm underneath i want to go

over the top of this one

right so i'm just literally just like

i'm threading a needle

just like i'm threading a needle here

give it a good tug and what you're going

to do

is go in between them all

and i use my other finger to make the

hole now

pulling it here will help

and then here i can go over under

because i really want to get this in

here pretty tight

and pushing the white back we're gonna

go over

and then under this one and i think i

probably will need to go around two more

times

and then i should be in there tight

enough that it will push

the white over to make

it nice and tight in there so on the end

i'm at the top i'm going to feed it

under and around because remember we

like to loop it around

and then we're going to go here so under

over and we're just using the wires in

the frame

to take care of this for us now i think

i have a different

idea instead of doing ribbon up here but

we'll see if i can make it

work i got to work on that and then i'll

let you know

over here we're going to go under

and then over right

i think like i said one more pass

so i'm gonna feed it in that hole and

the good thing is it's rope we're not

the only thing i did was pop my one

metal by being a little rough with it

so i'll be more careful they're not

fragile but

they do break and have i've known that

before i would have

and you know maybe glued it down or

something but

you definitely don't want to try to get

the end

last you want to start with your ends

and work towards the middle

it'll just make things much easier

for you all right i think

this will be it this is the last

pass that i'll need to make it's in here

pretty tight

oops make sure you're on the right side

of everybody oh

guys look at that isn't that awesome the

one p

in the middle is kind of loose but i

think

um there we go that i can

see here i can also put the

um what i'm going to put on my pump

or my football now let me cut this

so i did use four spools and i have this

much left but remember one was 13 and a

half feet

so if you're buying the nine and a half

i say exactly

four of the nautical rope so i would buy

five

honestly especially if you want to use

the same

rope to do a hanger and you want you

don't know how you know far your white

is going to go

those are things you have to look at so

i'm just tying that down

now wouldn't that be a fun bowl for like

a table top and you could put balls

in it or decor if you're going to use it

as a bowl instead of a football i would

glue your strings on the outside

unless you're completely filling it i

got a knot in there oh well

so here i have a knot i should have

pulled tighter i didn't

so i'm gonna glue it down

so it doesn't come loose

right in the middle of my

so that'll take a minute to set up i

just put a big blob

okay for the laces i took a piece

i'm using cream color felt because

everything on here is just a little

off-white

and i literally cut out

really rustic looking laces

you can be more specific with yours or

eat better but i really wanted them to

look that way

and then what i'm gonna do i just need

that to

set up for a second all right what i'm

gonna do with the laces

is put them across the top and you want

them i'm doing mine at a curve

like right across the tippity top

so we'll just do a touch here a touch

here

and if you get little strings it's okay

because you can just pluck them off

after but i want to do that

there and i'm not doing it all the way

down i like it kind of

so that is a football right there if you

want to put your team name

you can do that if you want to

decorate it you can do that if you want

to leave it plain you don't even have to

put the laces on i just think they look

cute and then i'm going to hang it

like this

on my door i know you could put like

deco mesh around it you could put this

in the middle of a wreath

maybe i'll just set it on a table i

don't know yet

where i'm putting it in my house because

big things are getting ready to happen

but let's see what i can do to put osu

on here

and there's the finished product i took

some ribbon and that's scarlett and gray

those are the buckeye colors

and i did the ribbon and then i posted

sorry that's wellington i posted uh i

painted the letters osu

in black and there's your white and then

i have at the top

the laces i just love it i'm probably

going to hang it up but i haven't

decided yet

so for now it's just going to

possibly sit on my coffee table all

right everybody well i hope you enjoyed

have a good one

bye