Dollar Store Cross Transformation

 I saw this wooden cross in Dollar Tree and it spoke to me,

"make me pretty".

I looked around, surely I couldn't be the only one that heard that?

Too many days stuck in operation isolation?

Yep, my first day to the Dollar Tree in months.

I felt like a medium, but instead of spirits, 

I had all these goodies calling out to me!

I won't show a photo of what my cart looked like when I was done.

 Let's just say the little's had a huge box going their way too!

I had something for everyone....probably something they may not have wanted 

but I swear everything had sparkles and rainbows around emanating from them!!

But I digress, that plain little cross.

I got home packed up the little's goodies,

yeh, their parents are gonna kill me!

And started on the cross. The first thing I did was take off 

that burlap bow and thumb tack!

It definitely needed to get out of that drab gray.

A nice coat of Aqua Cool Pearl,

brightened it right up.

Next I pulled out my beads and embellishments

I found a medal with an Angel on it, which went in the center.

I surrounded it with metal lavender beads

Next I needed to put something around the edge. 

I had a bunch of bead caps that seemed just right.

So on they went with some

GE Silicone.

I lined the inside of the bead caps with a string of pearls.

Then filled in the empty spaces with 2 colors of clear aqua

bicones.  I ended up dotting the spaces between the bead caps

 with more metal lavender beads. 

The bottom looked bare. I covered it in rhinestone strips.

I really like the way it turned out. I only wish I would have gotten more.

It found it's home on top of my headboard shutters 

where it fits right in ♥

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