68)Blobs of Frozen Pudding.
So, I kind of resigned myself to the fact that the nests would have to happen next year, and I’d have to come up with something cute with what I had on hand.And then I had a nest-piphany!.
I took one of the packages of moss that I had bought to use as filler here and there and started to kind of mold it into a nest shape.I think these were so successful because of the type of moss that I happened to pick up.It’s kind of got these long, twisty strands that lock together nicely the more you coax them into shape.
And it also happened to be the cheapest kind of moss at the craft store!Here’s the label.. No fancy specialty mosses for me!
Plain and simple.
I think it was around $6 Canadian for the big bag, which, with the exchange rate, probably works out to roughly free in US dollars.. To make a nest, all you need to do is cut off a small blob of moss.You can leave it like this, which looks perfectly nice, or if you want it a little darker, just color it in with a Sharpie!
Don’t forget to place a sheet of paper underneath so the ink doesn’t bleed through!Just look at that mess I made the first time when I didn’t have the sheet of paper!.
Color, color, color.. Hmm, now what to do about all those little ink marks?Now it’s a turkey in the grass!