Alright, after a much unanticipated hiatus, I'm back! I've decided that since I'm now a stay-at-home mom that I've got time here and there to show what I'm interested in, making, crafting, cooking, reading etc.
Since it was the Fourth of July just a few days ago, and since I have been on a crafting kick, I decided to finally get into the spirit of things since 1) I'm no longer working retail which kinda sucks the fun out of holidays, and 2) Last year I was UBER pregnant and just wanted little man to make an appearance.
So I got on Pinterest.....Btw, I'm a major Pinterest junkie. I check it everyday. More than once. More than twice.... okay I'm a total addict. I can't help it - there is so much to make, cook, exercise (though I rarely do this one) and just yeah - I love it. Plus I think it helps me continue to be creative and exposes me to some seriously talented people out in blogger world that I wouldn't know of and having found them, I feel like I'm a better person because of them. Deep, I know. :)
Anyhow, I found this awesome pin for a holiday wreath (HERE) and decided that I could do that my way for our door. So I went out to Michael's and got all the stuff I'd need - foam wreath, yarn, and stars. I already have a glue gun and sticks, and ribbon to hang it with. Now, I learned some good and bad things with this craft; one is that it takes a surprisingly longer time to do than I thought. I figured I could do it while little man was taking his two hour nap and be done - nope. It takes longer for reasons I'll go into.
Here's my crafting loot -
Now don't go crazy with the yarn - one bundle is PLENTY. I got a 12" foam wreath, some simple wooden stars, and yarn in a deep red, a dark blue and a sort of creamy white - to match the wooden stars better since stark white looked odd with everything else.
The foam wreath was a blessing and a curse. The yarn loves to stick to it, so wrapping the wreath in the yarn was a serious pain - and the main reason why this took so long to do, but the one major advantage to having the foam was that since the yarn loved to be connected to it so well, it meant that i didn't have to glue down my yarn all the time - just when I was starting or stopping a color - so that part rocked. But the foam did get everywhere and I had to sweep up a bit so little man wouldn't crawl along and eat the foam snow that ended up all around me. I've seen it done with straw before, so I'll leave it up to you. Pros and cons to both methods.
After having done this, I would definitely recommend you mark where you want your yarn to start and stop to give you a better chance of making the wreath look uniform. I didn't do this til the very end and as a result my wreath is a bit off, but it's not bad.
See my super tiny marks?
Alright, one quarter of the wreath is straight blue, and I wanted red to be the color next to the blue on both sides, so after marking it all out, get wrapping. This takes a while. I just glued down a little bit of yarn and put on a movie and went at it. Now since there is no way to get it to line up evenly since the inner circle will always be smaller than the outside, you will overlap. Try your best to make it look uniform and still keep the yarn straight. I did pull my yarn super taunt on this one, so it could have gone by quicker if I hadn't, but I liked the more polished look it gave to the project.
Now I bought five big stars, since the little ones ended up looking so much darker than my cream/white yarn, but only ended up using two on the wreath itself. But you could do buttons, smaller stars if available or whatever you happen to think of. The button version of this is pretty cute.
Then just position the stars however you think best and hot glue those suckers on. And Bam! Fourth of July wreath!
You can hang it however you want with ribbon or dangling down. I just glued a strip of ribbon across the back that my hanger can slide into so that a ribbon wouldn't get in the way of the yarn or detract from it in any way.
To also help me get into the Fourth of July spirit I found this adorable printable (HERE) and put it in a white frame I have out for the seasons. Then I made some cute sugar cookies and called it good. The sugar cookies were inspired by this blog (HERE) and I made them using this cookie genius - Sweet Sugar Belle. Her cookie blog is awesome.
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!! GO AMERICA!!
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