Wreaths!

So I was bored last weekend and couldn't sleep, so I thought about how I've always wanted to make a Christmas wreath, but it's summer. Then I was like well hey, an everyday/year round wreath would be a cool decoration to personalize the outside of my apt more. This particular one I made for a friend who loves animals, esp cats.

Materials:

foam wreath
yarn
hot glue gun
decorations (letters, numbers, flowers, etc.)

Instructions:

At the starting point, hot glue a piece of string to one side of the wreath. Press it down and make sure it's stuck. Then, begin wrapping the yarn in/out of the wreath.

This is a pretty long process (I used a 16" wreath and it took 3-4 hours) Once you've covered all of the foam, hot glue the end of the string to the wreath.

Now it's decoration time! For this one I used a bouquet of flowers (got them for 95 cents at Walmart) and cut the flowers from the stem. Make sure not to cut it too short though, because you're going to use the wire from the flower to stick it into the wreath. You could always hot glue it, but if you just stuck the wire into the foam you can always exchange it with different flowers as the seasons change.

I also painted some letters to add. The letters, however, I hot glued down.

And that's it! It's fairly easy (wood wreaths would be faster to make since the yarn wrapping is skipped and you just decorate it) and really thoughtful as a house warming gift.

I became a little obsessed with it so I'll prob have an overstock of wreaths lol. I plan on selling them either locally or on etsy. So look out for them!

Adrienne J.