Styrofoam Ladybugs

I feel like I've been off the grid since Thursday.  I'm dealing with insurance crud from the accident, DMV nightmares (I'm cramming to retake a driving test at 35 years old - good times), The Girl's birthday party prep, garage and laundry room purging/reorganizing, a sore body, and then the regular day-to-day stuff.  So I've been a little busy.

I thought I'd poke my head in and give you a little peek at another one of the birthday party decorations I've been working on.  I got a bag of mixed sized styrofoam balls at the Dollar Store.  Six in a bag for a buck.  I stuck toothpicks in the bottoms of them and poked them down into a piece of foam so I could spray paint them red.  I ended up running out of paint because it was a can I already had, so I hand painted them with acrylic paint. 

Here they are with just the red:

Next, for heads, I glued on some black pompoms that I had from another project.

Once those were dry, I painted lines and dots with black acrylic paint.

I'm still trying to decide if they need eyes.

 I think what I'll do is put a little wire loop in their backs and hang them from the light over the table.

If not, they'll make their appearance somewhere for party day.

Back to it......