The girls and I had an absolutely marvelous summer. We crafted and created and swam and played and I just enjoyed them so much. It was a refreshingly recovery from last summer since much of the past year has been a blur of going through the motions as I tried to get a grasp on the grief that I was experiencing from all the tragedies that our family and friends experienced in the year or so before. I'm finally beginning to feel like myself again.
Anyway, I have a lot of catch up posts to do including Emma's "real first day of school". But, this is what I did on her first day back to school with a little "help" from my little hot mess that I call "My Chloe Girl".
I had been searching around Pinterest for a cute wreath idea for our front door. I'm just not your typical flowered wreath kind of girl and I was looking for something that just struck my fancy. Well, eventually, I decided to compile a couple of ideas together and this is what I came up with.
I posted a picture of this on my friend Jay's facebook wall and my friend Heather requested a tutorial. So, I'm going to do my best to give you one.. I always have intentions of taking pictures step by step when I do something like this and then I get in the zone and get in a groove and I forget... But, this was so unbelievably easy that I think it could be done with no picture instructions at all. But none the less, I do have a couple..
Chloe and I went to Hobby Lobby yesterday and we started out with a ball of scrap fabrics in fall, green, browns, yellows and reds and an initial which was on sale for 50% off of 2.99! Score!
Side Note: though I've become a bit of an organizing junky (not by nature but as a coping mechanism to my husband's ADD), you could never tell it by walking in our front door because my dining room is always functioning as either an art or a photography studio and more often than not, looks like this.
I spray painted the "E" with Krylon spray paint that I used to create the Shrek head pieces for our Christmas play last year. The color is "Ivy Leaf" but we affectionately call it "Shrek green" and that's a more appropriate description. I tied a piece of yarn to the "E" before I spray painted it so that it would also get painted and would serve as a way to attach it to the wreath
I was delighted to find a wire hanger after digging through all of the closets. I'm not sure why I had it but you can usually get them free from the cleaners.
I sort of shaped the hanger into a circle using wire pliers. Then I just went to town tying on scraps of fabric. (This is where I got excited and forgot to take pictures).
Once I got it all together, I decided that the "E" looked too plain so I pulled out the white circle stickers that I used to make everything polka dotted for Chloe's "Pink Polka Dotted" Birthday Party last year.
And waa laa, a polka dotted E..
And there you have it, a wreath that is me and cost about $7.00 to make and is very much my style. Could be cheaper for you if you actually sew and already have scrap fabric!
LOVE!
ReplyDeleteToo cute! As always, you are very crafty and creative. I'm going to check out this Pinterest site. Maybe I can find my inner "crafty" self!
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