I woke up around 7:30 and had my coffee and caught up with Instagram and Facebook. Isn't it weird how we check social media like our parents read the newspaper? Lol
Last night my husband hung our new curtains! So I had to include a picture for y'all. I'm sorry you have to scroll down when I post from the app because I don't get to position pics. We moved into our new place 3/21/13 and it's already starting to come together. The main colors in the living are going to be blues but I will add yellow accents and maybe a rusty red. I'm not 100% but that's what I'm thinking right now. We also bought 2 throw pillows and a doormat. Jim and I both agree a doormat makes your place more inviting. Actually Jim said it means "we're open for business". Lol
I've wanted to make a spring wreath for a few weeks but needed to wait until we were more settled. Today seemed like as good a day as ever. Besides light housework I didn't have anything planned. I browsed Pinterest looked at tons of wreaths and found one I liked. On my way to hobby lobby I started thinking I wanted to try and make this wreath for $20 dollars or less. My original idea was to use hydrangea flowers or Peonies but then I remember seeing paper flowers that look like Peonies. The Peonies were made out of coffee filters. So on my drive (I know not safe but I waited until I was at a red light) I googled "how to make a flower out of a coffee filter". I found this site www.sheknows.com/living/articles/986085/diy-coffee-filter-flowers it gives you a step by step how to make the flowers. Easy as pie! Best part is you can make a ton of flowers for $1.
I got to Hobby Lobby and found a wreath I liked. I decided to go with one made out of dried tree branches. I'm sure it has a technical name but I'm unaware of it. It was the most expensive thing I had to buy ($6.99 ) with my 40% off coupon I paid under 5 bucks. :) Next I had to buy the numbers to display my apartment number. I paid $1.49 each (I needed 4). The numbers were wooden and unpainted so I picked up 2 bottles of paint for $.77 each. I went with navy blue and mustard yellow. I also picked up burlap ribbon in yellow for $5.99 (it was several feet). I already had paint brushes and sponges and a door wreath hanger but you can buy them for $2-3 at Hobby Lobby. I also already had coffee filters. If you aren't a coffee drinker just got to A dollar store because they are $1 for like 200.
The first thing I did was paint the numbers because I knew they would need time to dry. I thought polka for burlap ribbon would look better so I rolled out my yellow burlap ribbon and used a circle sponge to make navy blue polka dots using some if the paint I bought for the letters. I then painted some designs on 2 of the letters. I now realize I should have painted designs on only one of the colors. I would have preferred it to be solid, design, solid, design. Oops. While everything was drying I created my coffee filter peonies. If you need a tutorial use the link I mentioned earlier. Super easy. It takes about 5 filters to make one flower.
Once I was done with my flowers (I think I made 6) I arranged the letters and flowers to my liking and used my handy dandy hot glue gun to keep everything in place. Last was to tie the ribbon and hang it up. :)
I was pretty happy with the end result. I hope you like it. I'll post a few pics so you can get an idea of how everything progressed.
All in all I had a relaxing day off but still made time for things I enjoy. I'm actually in the process of making cake pops for tomorrow's bake sale so I better get to that because its getting late.
XOXO
Amber
No comments:
Post a Comment