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Monday - March 16, 2009
From: Tomball, TX
Region: Southwest
Topic: Wildflowers
Title: Bluebonnet stencil for furniture
Answered by: Nan Hampton
QUESTION:
where or who would sell furniture stancils of bluebonnetsANSWER:
Well, Mr. Smarty Plants usually deals with actual living plants, but was willing to try googling "bluebonnet stencils" and came up with several promising sites for stencils of bluebonnets that could be used with furniture. The most promising turned out to be Stencils by Nancy but there are others that popped up using the above search terms.
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