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This tutorial demonstrates how to repurpose a damaged cowboy boot into a rustic, patriotic floral centerpiece. By using moss to hide wear and layering red, white, and blue florals, the creator transforms a recycled item into a balanced decorative piece, emphasizing creative material sourcing and natural-looking design elements.
Hey, y'all I gotta just my camera, huh? I'm sorry
Welcome welcome
Come on in say hi
I was up and down the stairs
like
Now I'm out of breath
Hey Ria, how are you sweet lady?
All right, so we'll just give everybody a few seconds to come in here, and I will grab my stuff while we're doing that
I do need to find my clips real quick. I did take them over here
So what we're gonna do tonight
Fun I've done one of these before but I think it's gonna be
So what we're gonna do tonight, I've got this old cowboy
Table this is why my dog chewed up years ago
So I saved them
It's just a little foam gap we're gonna cover this up
And he ruined my favorite
She did
I forget which dog
Ruined my favorite pair of boots. Look at this. Cheap toe up right on the toe
favorite pair
So we're gonna take this and we're gonna cover
We're gonna cover the toe up with a little something something. We're gonna build a centerpiece out of top. Okay. Hey Nance. How are you?
We're gonna make this kind of a patriotic one a rustic patriotic one
Okay, I pulled out all kinds of flowers, I don't really know
We're gonna use some of this base, you know to have it flowing out the side
We want something to flow out the side
And then oh
This I got coming up
Mannequin head cowgirl
Might be that on my line
Let me zoom out so I can show you all these
Fun florals I picked out
For this tonight
So I want to add some deep reds
Okay, and I don't know if I want to do it the smaller
Like these little accent pieces or the bigger. Okay
I also want to add our white in a couple different forms. I
Use those I brought those out. I want to add some fun Twiggy stuff coming out of time
Well, that'd be so much fun. Oh my goodness
Hey Linda, hey Stephanie. How are you? We're gonna use something like that and we might use these and I've lost
They'll down on the ground y'all we got some of these
Hold please. I thought I grabbed the blue. I'm very good
Yeah
Maybe I decided I was unsure about these because they were kind of big I think I
Think I just changed my mind and we are going to use beats. You might just use a darker blue
We just pull them all out and we're just gonna start on this back, okay
So what we want to do first, okay, if I do want to glue some moss like stuff
My girl's head back there what I want to do is kind of glue some moss on this toe. Hey, how are you?
Because I want to look like she's the boot to look like to cover this, you know where the dog chew this tip up
I want to look like she just went
Hit some kicked up a bunch of grass or something, you know
So that's my idea
Don't look back and saw the grass
So what we're gonna do I'm gonna try I
Don't know if I can get a full pin in this hole
Try and then we're also
Okay, so we want to want to fix this tip of the toe, okay, we want it to look like part of our design
Okay
Okay, and I did pinch this floral pin
Pinch that just hair
Autumn up the night
Okay, and we're gonna hold this on here we're gonna try to
Get that
Yeah
I think that holds one thing. Yeah
Do over this
Can't see it
There we go
Okay, now we got that little pin in there just kind of hold it we're gonna add some glue and then just
Okay
Little scraggly piece here. How's that? Am I doing this week?
Squishes
All right
Leave that on there, let's sit
Okay
Push some of that back and
Some more of this around the top we can always trim some of this off
Excess you can always add more take away
Feel like need to add some down in between
We're gonna add a floral on here
I just wanted this to kind of look kind of like a
Trimmy trim hair trim here. Okay. We'll see
Little bit around that tip of that
in
Okay, right there
And there we kind of got a grip it's like she's picked up some cracks
Okay, kind of covered our tip we are gonna add a flower later I just want to get the design done before
Before I go that far
All right, so now let's get just started on this boot. Let me zoom in a little bit more again, okay
Hey Lee, how are you? I'm hope you guys like this design. I think I just thought
Guys when I ain't crappin getting captain crappin, whatever you call it. Yeah
So my
I got good at it. Now. I'm lost the probe. I took this
Knife and I had to cut it all out because I had it all down the sides
I had to scrape it off clean this boot up dig dig dig all that stuff out
Just save the boot. I was not firing in the back
What happened? I'm just saying
Okay, so we're just gonna trim a few of these off I got these at Walmart y'all I think these are pretty nice
getting grapevines and what not and
They are taped
Can kind of pull them apart and get a little bit longer
So we're just gonna trim a few of these off
Okay, just want a few Drapers Drapers, whatever you call it
That's a season isn't no Drapers. Oh, and there's the new one
Hey first
Let's start out with that mini, but yeah, these are from the Walmart
Who has bloom y'all
Nope, I lied. That's from Joanne's. It's a bush
I did just get it this year. So they should have it
Okay, so let's start putting a couple of these in here real quick this shouldn't take too long y'all
Who's gonna look at my good side? I want to find my good side. I think
It's kind of leaning that way. So I want this
I think I want lean in my way. Okay, see how it's kind of
So we're gonna glue these in here
No, I might not have to pick them but I do need to cut them down. I didn't want to cut them down until I absolutely had to y'all
So anyway, hey Dawn, hey Brenda, we're just gonna kind of put these in
here
Kind of stuff them in. We just kind of want like I said, we want a few little Drapers
In there
Okay, and we're just kind of starting
Go on the right way
Okay
And we're just going around the outside for now
Feel like you want to go back and add some in later. We're gonna build like a little skeleton here in just a sec
Think we might need a few more of these
Okay, so see we're just kind of giving it the little then we can go back
And we are gonna put a bow around the side
Okay, let's put another short one in the back here
Okay
Oh
This is really simple because you don't need a whole lot of
Okay, we want the big economy or focal point
The boot-scooping buggy here and show off our design
See how we just got this coming along down here
Okay, we'll just use these last two
Yeah, how are you
Tonight I was doing something different something fun something different. I'm using the old boot to boot
Season four of them on y'all
This side I said
All right, yeah, we got that done got her outside and that built
Indies steam steam a little bit once we get the other stuff in here. You might notice that so much
Yeah, let's build our skillet. Okay
Let's start the design
I'm gonna keep losing
This is my good side
It's come to throw me
Okay, let's start with our own skeleton I want to use a few of these big
hydrangeas, I got these at the old-time pottery our old-time pottery finally had
Some florals and stuff. I'm our old-time buddy was being like there
for you
So I kind of put it on there
You know, so I'm gonna cut for these okay if you want the numbers
It's a lot of blue
Penny and you get eight of them. I don't know which number I'll give you see now. It's eight five seven nine five
one zero eight
And these are not a push-up, okay, these are not a push-up leave so I'm gonna leave some of these leaves all
Take away. I have to use some it's this
Greenery, but in this a pretty color
I'm not a pretty color. It's really gonna go good with a rustic
Ribbon, and we're gonna add some more of that dark blue man. Just join more of that. That's a red deep reds
In some whites, okay, so what I want to do to start here on this one I want to get
We're just gonna take this
Okay
Hey Sherry, how are you? I don't want one straight down in the center
Glue my leaves. Like I said, I don't want this design to go super high
Okay, but I want my top one to kind of be my highest point
Okay, then I'm gonna make some smaller ones
Think we're gonna use four on here
And we're gonna come off right off at an angle
Okay
Angle
I
Don't hit a spot of glue area. Okay, we want these coming out around like that
This one I want on the side too
Okay
Now in one about even out, okay, so see how I'm doing that out
I like that
Get this one right even over here. Hey
Working tonight
Oh
And we just need one more
There we go, so this will be I want it goes right over here at this
Anger hey, Erica, how are you?
Yes, what
I'm older not
Now papers
Try this
There
You'll make
Hand the way to
Hey, so there we go. We got one up now. You got all this greenery going on. Most of the next greenery will probably take on
Okay, so let's add some
Let's add some red
Let's cut one off
These are these are Hobby Lobby
I really don't think I want this much red
Let's try
Comes in three little
Stands you have to pick these
Longer
Let's try it. Let's try it and see how it goes. Okay. I just want a little bit of tabs and red in there
So I'm just I'm not gonna glue these in just in case I don't like this
Okay, I just kind of want these
Sporadically coming out just as a little accent
Coming up in here. You see that I
Think I like that
I can get through without wasting any
Oh
There we go
These are from Hobby Lobby, okay, these were Hobby Lobby items you should get these
Lovely
I like it because it's a small accent
That's kind of what I was trying to go for with this red
Looks about all I had so
Hey Annie, how are ya?
Hey Debra
I know right Erica in the old boot crazy. I love it. It's like why waste the old boot?
Like I said, I did one last year
I might have done it for the group
I think I might have done it for the group
It's on my page
But it was real fun and I got that one and I just sold it recent
Somebody bought it for a gift for somebody
We're just gonna kind of stick these around I mean you got one or five so that kind of works out
I'll see wherever you go here
Want to see
See if I like
I'll take a quick look
Oops
I'll get that
I'll get that white pencil
Let's do this one
I'll also leave it on that
I'm not going to use them it should screen it
But I do want this color
To shine on me
So I'll use that
Add that
Here
This one
Take out
Here
And this one
We're going to stick it over
We're going to make sure we use all of those
Okay
Now we're going to go back in with some of this
White
Okay this is a
You know what guys
I really don't know what this is
Doesn't have a tag on
I know I ordered it online
So I apologize
Hey a Regency product
Ordered it
Online
We're just going to add some of this
Like I said we've got some greenery
But this is going to add some more white
In there
Okay
Don't know how long I want these
Hey Carol Anne how are ya
Do you like it Rach?
Hey Rach
What's going on girl
Alright so these are push up
So I'm going to try to push some of these up
I don't think I want them up all the way
I think I want to keep these
Let's see
Yeah
I'm going to leave these long
They're sticking in kind of nice
Thank goodness
Nothing else has been
Everything else has been kind of fighting me
Okay
So here's where we're going to add some more white in here
And then like I said when you get that bow on there
Oh my goodness
It's all kind of cool
Okay
So just go back in here with some of this whiteness
Okay
Push these up
Like I said I'm not pushing them up all the way
I'm just going to sporadically
Add these
I don't know how many
I've got three so far
If I start hitting glue
I'm going to have to start
Picking these
Which
I hate doing because you know
We all don't get along with that pick machine
I'm just saying
But we're going off tune tonight guys
So that's
That might be a record
We'll see
Let's see
Just move some of your leaves out of the way
Okay
Stick these down in here
Okay
Just fill it in until it kind of looks nice
I'm kind of going to try to keep it symmetrical
As much as I can
And you know
Very even numbers
For my design
Okay
And we'll just kind of play it
Until we like it
Knock one
Peanuts
There we go
Okay
Put that one down there
Put that one coming out front
Put that one in there much more though
Scoop some of those up
Okay
Whoops
I just lost a little piece
And then I think we need one more over here
It has a whole lot of white on it
I'm not liking this
I just thought it would be something different to show y'all
Oh I'm sorry
I'm Donna, welcome Donna
The name of my page is
AC Inspired Reese
Inspired
I don't know what my name would say
Or season
Okay
There we got that white that's going on
I think I need
What do you think
I think we need one more
I think we need one more right there
And then we're going to add a little bit more blue
Okay
And that's going to be that darker blue
Okay
Yeah Dawn just put it in there
Thanks Dawn
Dawn just put that in there
I'll tell you guys
If you want a good laugh
If you watched my live from last Saturday
Oh
My granddaughter came in
And crashed my live
She's like doing her own vlog and live
And what not over here
I was going insane
It was too funny
It was just absolutely too funny
I just tried to keep going
I didn't know what else to do
Alright so this
Like I said I wanted to get
Let's see guys
Let's see if we like this
I'm going to have to take this one apart
Because it's got that green
That's going on in there
I don't want to have to mess
With that I'm just saying
So let's try this
Okay
Let's just cut one off right now
Alright
Cut that off real short
Uh
Oh did you
Eric
Stop
I have no idea
I don't know how I
My patience is just
Going you know off
Alright I don't like those guys
I don't know
I just don't like it
So guess what
I have a little change of plan here
I'm going to snip some of this greenery out
Alright guys
This is what you can do
If you don't like your design
Instead of pulling everything out
You don't like the greenery in there
You don't think you want to add that blue
I was hoping to use
I was hoping to use these dark green
So I'm thinking maybe
If I cut some of this greenery out of here
Off these hydrangeas
We might be able to pull that off
Okay
The design is never over until it's over
I'm just saying
Okay
Like that one
I'm just trying to get them out around the center
Cut that one off
The design is never over
Until it's over
Okay so now we've opened up
A little bit more room
To possibly add
This darker blue
I was hoping these would work
But I don't think they're dark enough
Okay so we're going to take this one off
I can't get this one off
I can but
This is going to take a while
Let's try
I think I like this darker blue
I do have a
Some white roses
But I really don't like these
So I'm going to have to take this
Cut that one down
Put that one in there
Otherwise I can't put myself
So yeah
Now I think I like this darker blue
Okay
Now I like this darker blue
I still made that a little bit
Too long
So I'm going to make my life a little bit easier
Here so let's just cut all these out
Okay
I'm going to pull these
Let's just cut a bunch of these off
These are another one from Hobby Lobby
Okay
Another one from Hobby Lobby
Get these out of your face
Okay
And we still have to put something down here
So that might be where we put
Some of those blue
Like I said I'm removing
This one I don't have to
That one I don't have to
That one I'm not using to
That one I got to push all the way up
Some of them are going to have this
Greenery on here and some of them
Will not
They've got two on there
I'm not going to use those
Okay
Now let's take a few of these
These ones here
I like that a little bit
Alright
Alright let's start adding some of this blue in here
Okay
I did that one
Too long
Eh maybe not
I don't know
I think those are
Too long
I don't like how long those are
Woop
I don't like how long those are
Okay
So we're going to
Try to do it without paper now
Go right back in that same hole
There we go
That's better
See now we're adding that
Darker blue
Back into there
Okay
I'm liking adding that little
Tad of that dark
Blue
I like that
Now we've still got to put our bow on
I'm going to add some more whiteness
We still have our little twiggies
Um
To add in there as well
Let's go down
One more time
There
Swish these around a little bit
Kind of like what we want
White
And everything
I think I kind of like that
By the time we add the bow it's nice and simple
Um
This I might raise
I don't know
I think these are good
I think those are good
So let me get these
Out of the way
Dang mommy I had a whole
Lot of red
I might just stick
I don't know
I might just
Stick it
I think I might
I think I just might
Need a little dab of red
Right in the center
I think we'll
Kind of do that
Alright so let's get a little bow on here
I think I've kind of got it where I want it
You know what I mean
I'll go back
Because I thought these would be fun to add in here
Kind of sporadically
Um
Because they're like the white daisies
With the
With the blue center
Um
We might
Add some of those around the top
I don't know I'll sit back and look at it
Um I don't think
I don't know if these
Would be long enough
I think I'm reaching
Girls here what I want to put in here
That's mainly because
I didn't have any white flowers
I didn't want to
Put the roses in there
We could do something
You know like
I don't know
I'm 100% on board for that
Let me grab a rose and see what she thinks about that
I do have these white ones
I think they're white
Are these white?
I don't know guys
I thought these were white or not
They're all mixed in
Oh they might be
They might be
Blue
Those are too big
Um
I can't tell
Some of these are pink
That's probably not a flower
Um
I don't know about something like this
I don't know about something
Something
I might have to go find something
I feel like it needs
Another
A different type of white flower
I guess this one
Never mind
I think I like it
I think I like it a lot
Get some of those off
I'm going to use about four of these
Make sure your
Things are
Uh
Thanks
Me and my granddaughter
She's a huge
Knucklehead
She's wearing me out
Alright let's stick some of these
I think I like this one
That adds that little
Pop of white that I was talking about
Okay
That adds the pop
Of white
I was looking for
There we go
And we got just
Just enough
Oh my goodness
I panicked a little
Too soon
Get that in there y'all
Just kind of got to
Try to miss your
Leaves down in
Over here
Okay
Woo hello
I got to fix my painting
Alright
So I think I like that
It adds that pop of white
I want
Now all I got to do is glue something down here
Um what I was thinking
Is I'll probably do
One of those blue flowers
That we talked about
Um
That we didn't get to put in our design
Okay
So I think I'm just going to
Take that off
And we're going to add that to here
Make sure all our
Stuff is good there
I feel like I need some leaves
I'm going to need it
Um
Let's see
Let's see if we can find all these
To take off
Pop that top there
If I want the leaves guys
I'm just trying it
Okay
That one there
Oh no guys
You know what I'm going to fix it
Take what I'm going to do
There we go
It's not odd here
Okay
Stick that
Down in our
Like I said we want it
To look like she picked up some grass
And stuff
Okay we want to save our toe
So what I think I'm going to do
On that bottom
Is um
Take
I'm thinking guys
I'm thinking
We just added
I don't know if this will work
It's
It's not really going to
Stick
Hold it
I'm also going to try it
We'll try it
If they stay in
So my other idea
There we go
Was that we could glue in a couple of these leaves
From this
Okay
We can glue a couple of these
Just going to cut this apart
Okay
Try to stick these
Up underneath
I'm going to stick that one way under
Because we got a lot of glue on that one
And a fingernail
Okay
See how I'm just kind of
I'm just kind of adding that um
Another little
Trim there
Ooh
Kind of glue on this
Up underneath
Our flower
Okay
One more
Then we'll make a bow and we'll be done
Okay
So now we got our grass
And everything
And our little flower on the tip
Now all I need to do is
Add
A bow
Let me get these out of the way
Here
Ooh get out
My feet
Okay and then we'll be done
Everybody like this? I hope so
Oh I'm sorry
Oh yeah yeah the um
The retreat yes
Dawn and I will be there
Um I'm not sure who else is going
I'm going to grab something real quick guys
I think my dog is chewing something up
What do you got?
Hey
Stop it
Stop it now
I'm telling you what
Ah
Stop the chew on the barn door
Thing I made
Oh my god
I'm going to hang that dog
I'm telling you what
She gets into
She gets into so much stuff
So what I want
I want to use this
It's nice and rustic
I want to use this off white
Um and I want to use this deep red
Okay
So I think I'm going to start in the back
Here
With probably just
Let's do a nine inch tail
Okay
And
Whoops
Get that on there
And I'm probably just going to do about a five
Five inch
Five and a half inch
Okay
And I think on this one
I'm going to do
Make sure those are even
I think I'm just going to do three
Two on one side
One on the other
Okay
I'm just going to bring that
That one
Bring that down around the other side
Okay
That one
Now we're going to come in
I think with our
Let's try this one
We're going to come in the opposite way
This time okay
Tail there
Okay
And then we're going to come in this way
Put this one about the same
Same tail
Okay
And I love this red
I think we've got this
It's kind of got
It's got that off white
It's a real rustic color
Um and it's got like a gold
Okay
So this one we're just going to come down a little bit shorter
Come down a little bit shorter
There we go
Stop messing it up
Right
There we go
Okay
I'm going to twist this one
No I'm going to do three on this one too
Okay
We're going to end on the opposite side on this one
Okay
About the same length
Okay
Tail out front
Okay
Now we're going to go in with this
This is the same stuff
I love this color
Because it's a neutral color
And it will go with so many lengths
This one we're going to go
Off that way
And this one
We're only going to do that one loop in the middle
About two inches
Twist that
And we're going to come down here
Take that off
Okay
I'm going to water tie that
Long story
This is going down in that boot
Right here
We're going to pick this
To get it to go down in the boot
Okay
After we fluff this out
Okay
Oh will you be there Erica?
Awesome
Oh good good
I can't wait to meet you
Yeah we always have a good time
It's always a good time
It really is
Okay so now we're just going to fluff these out
Remember we had one on each
Two on one side
One on the other
On this side
We kind of got the one
And the two of the dark red
Okay
Pulling all our tails
Forward
Okay
This one over here
Okay so just break that bow
Fluff it out
Pull this a little forward like that
So there's our bow
Okay we're just going to go and
Fluff all the angular tails
Inwards like that
Okay
Fluff these
This one
I'm going to go inward on the other side
And this one I think
Inwards
Okay so now
That's pretty tight
Okay so see how we got this
And here's the trick
You can pick this
Okay
You can pick this and put it down in your boot
So I'm going to leave about two inches
And see if that works
Okay
Let's see if that works
Okay so see how we pick
See how we pick this
Sorry guys I'm still zooming
Hopefully you can see the bow
Okay
Just straighten those out
Now let's glue this
Down
Okay
So it was my right side again guys
It was this side
Okay
We're just going to glue
The tails out of here
So I'm going to glue them in my glue pop
Oh yeah
Got it
Okay
And we're just going to go over
Stick this
Down into our foam
With our pick
Down as far as you can
Okay
There we go
Now we're just going to straighten this bow
Out a little bit
Pull the tails down
Straighten those out
Fluff that
And then we've got
Our
Rustic
I'm so patriotic
You know it doesn't scream
Fourth of July or nothing
It just
I'm going to cut these
These I don't want quite as long
So we're going to trim those down
I don't want these to come
Shaved
We might trim those down
Just a little bit
But here we go guys
Hopefully you like this project
You guys like it?
Hey Katie how are you girl?
I miss you
How are y'all?
So yeah this is our
Susan's old cowboy boot
She went walking away
We did one before
But this one was the one the dog
Chewed the tail off
So it's recycled, reused
And repurposed
Okay
There we go
Anyway I'll zoom in so you can kind of see that
But I hope you guys like this project
Something different
I thought it would be fun
It's pretty quick and simple
I know not everybody
Has a cowboy boot laying around
But you can go to Dollar Tree
The
Thrift store or something
If you want to do something like that
Or buy a cheap one
You know
Here's kind of like the top view
Okay
And then here's our all around view
And like I said we put grass on there
To make it look like she was kicking up some
Kicking up some grass with her boot
She
Boot stomping
So there we go
I love it, I think it turned out pretty awesome
And I hope you all like it too
Thank you LaCroixShack
Thank you
Lily and Nancy
Thank you so much
I do have some fun projects
Coming up with cows
And a big bow
And a wagon
I painted this wagon
I'm not done yet
But we're going to have a project coming up
With that
And
I've got a fun great bike coming up
And like I said I think I'm alive
I've got a cowboy
Or a cowgirl mannequin head coming up
I might do Friday night
So if you want to join me over there
That'd be fun, awesome
I'd love to see you over there too
Okay
Anyway, I know Lori's getting ready to come on
And get ready to hop on there
And see her
Thanks Katie for coming and stopping by
And thank you all for coming
And hanging out with me
We did it, we got it done in an hour
I do hope you like this one
It's something different
So I'm going to let you all go
I'm going to go get a drink
I'm getting dry
But anyway, laugh and live with a half full cup
When it's all black clouds and far to the sun
Be kind, spread it like butter
And just smile
Okay
Alright guys, I'll see you next week
Or hopefully I'm alive, bye y'all
Thank you all