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How to Make a Mini Mary Garden

Our local moms’ group did this really fun Mini Mary Garden craft on a recent retreat. It was so much fun! Everyone could customize their gardens to include different combinations of rocks, flowers, and moss.

This would be such a fun craft project to do with your women’s group, Bible study group, for teens/tweens in youth group, or a fun “mom and me” project to do with a child.

All of these supplies were generously donated by my local moms group. If you would like to support future videos, you can donate via my Buy Me a Coffee page or purchase something from my art supply wish list: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/amyheyseart

Mary Garden:

Single Glass Terrarium: https://amzn.to/3mUlPWh

Group Set of Glass Terrariums: https://amzn.to/3opjseo OR Set of 12 or 24 https://vasemarket.com/6×4-inch-hanging-terrarium-tealight-holder-orb 

Bulk Mini Car Statues: https://faithshop.com/products/bulk-lady-of-lourdes-adhesive-car-statuette-171-60-0246p?_pos=33&_sid=c81d8c16b&_ss=r&sca_ref=3626719.WlrO2sVFGq 

Single Mini Car Statue: https://amzn.to/3LiRoCC

Craft Moss or Super Moss: https://amzn.to/41JEraR 

Small Fabric Flowers: https://www.michaels.com/product/recollections-signature-flower-embellishments-10190367?michaelsStore=9976&inv=5 

Hot Glue Gun: https://amzn.to/3AkRIdK 

Other Glue Options: Tacky Glue (great for fabric flowers) https://amzn.to/40oxtq4 , Super Glue https://amzn.to/3KVJ1LH , or https://amzn.to/3KPOLGU 

Wood Rounds https://www.michaels.com/product/wood-discs-1-12-10049505?cm_mmc=PLASearch-_-google-_-MICH_Shopping_US_N_Craft+%26+Hobbies_N_PMAX_BOPIS_N-_-&Kenshoo_ida=&kpid=go_cmp-18514199759_adg-_ad-__dev-c_ext-_prd-10049505&gclid=CjwKCAjwuqiiBhBtEiwATgvixJDS281Kykx_bVtdzyXIhntPG_1K5eEo4P6QpMnsChUPsHjYqTYvrxoCCe8QAvD_BwE and https://www.michaels.com/product/creatology-wood-circles-10206352?com_id=AlsoLike&path=youMayAlsoLike 

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Word of the Year and Saint Name bracelets

For the last few years, instead of picking a New Year’s resolution, I have liked picking a “word of the year” instead. The idea is to pick a word for a year and see how God is speaking to you through that word.

In the past, some words I have picked have included “be” and “discover.” For 2022 my word of the year was “teach,” which ended up playing out with me teaching Catholic inspired art tutorials on YouTube.

There are different ways to discern your word of the year, but my go to method has been picking a word at random using Jen Fulwiler’s Word of the Year generator. To me, it takes the guess work out of deciding my word or at least gives me a place to start and further discern my word in prayer.

I thought with 2023 right around the corner, it would be fun to do a Word of the Year inspired craft tutorial. I used Jen Fulwiler’s Word of the Year and Saint’s Name generator to randomly select a word and a Saint and I used a bead kit I found at TJ Maxx to create a matching word beaded bracelet.

Supplies needed:

Holiday DIY Bead Kit (I found mine at TJ Maxx) https://jewelrymadebyme.com/ (Here’s a similar type of option on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3hMu3Nz)

Elastic Stretch Cord (mine was part of my kit)

Scissors

Masking Tape

Super Glue https://amzn.to/3HXxXxY OR https://amzn.to/3WhLDrD

Toothpick

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