Ahem.  Ummm.  Yeah, well.  Ahem.  (whispering)…I started these 2″ Styrofoam fabric balls (tutorial here) last year, planning to gift them to the kids’ teachers at school for Christmas gifts.  I even purchased thin wooden ‘stems’ and a couple of branches of silk leaves to create a one-of-a-kind long stem prickly Christmas flower.  Ahem.  Yeah.  What you see below is as far as I got.  Epic failure on my part…but I assure you, I have already planned for this year’s teacher gifts and they are WAY simpler (and a lot less painful to your fingers) than these fabric balls.

I’ll get these done sooner or later…just not right now.  🙂