My take on a Tussy Mussy

I was enjoying a post over at A Cottage Industry where Tracey had made some darling Halloween hats.  She had been shopping at one of my favorite stores "the dollar store".  For the cost of $1 you can purchase a package of party hats, the package I picked up had eight hats in it.  Anyway....looking at Tracey's darling hats got me to thinking about what you could do with the same party hat by turning it over and filling it with seasonal greens and flowers much like a tussy mussy. I love the results and will do a few more of these for Christmas, the fillings are endless, candies and cookies to be given as gifts for the holidays rather than greens and berries.
I followed Tracey's directions using liquid starch.  I actually had to go to three stores before I could find a bottle of it, I guess people who use starch at all now days use spray starch, I know I do.  I picked up some decorative sheet paper at Hobby Lobby, again by using different papers your tussy mussy can take on any decorative direction.
I cut the paper into random pieces and dipped them in the starch and then placed them on the party hat. Couldn't be easier, just overlap the papers making sure the decorations from the hats are completely covered.  You may see a bleed through of the hat under the paper when its wet but this will disappear once its dry.

A paper punch was used to put a hole in each side of the cone and I used a pretty fall colored ribbon through the two holders, tying a knot on the outside for a little extra decoration.  Do this before you start to fill your tussy mussy as its much easier, we won't discuss how I know this. 

Next I hot glued a chunk of floral foam inside to give me something to push the floral picks into to keep them upright and stable inside, continue to add leaves, berries, pine cones, whatever you have in your basket until you think it looks finished.
If you were going to fill the tussy mussy with treats you will need to either line the inside of your tussy mussy with more of the starch paper our you could use tissue or shredded papers as liners.

So we went from this....

To this with very little cost involved.

What a great little gift to leave hung on someones front door knob during the holidays.

I am participating in
Metamorphis Monday
with Susan