• Insert screw hooks for hanging thread. See instructions for this below.
  
• Take 2 small dishes and add a teaspoonful of paint in each. It doesn't need to be a lot. You can eyeball this.
• Add an equal amount of water to each dish. You can also eyeball this.
• Combine paint and water in each dish until you have a wash.
• Using a small paintbrush and the cream paint wash paint your entire wooden mushroom.
  
• Let it dry a minute or two.
• Take your sponge and put a small amount of brown paint wash on it. Lightly sponge the top of the mushroom cap to get desired look. A sponge works well for creating color gradations and a natural look.
  
• Let it dry.
  
• Coat with triple gloss paint. I like this brand a lot.
  
• Using hot glue gun apply glue to bottom of stem on mushroom and place some dried moss on that.
  
• Loop desired thread in hook for hanging.

Inserting Screw Hooks

• Push tack into the top of mushroom a bit (just a bit; the tack doesn't go all the way in)
  
• Pull the tack out.
• Insert one screw hook in hole.
• Using pliers screw hook into hole as shown in photo.