Check me out...I totally just legitimized myself as a blogger. Okay, not even close...BUT I definitely completed some sort of blogger “rite of passage”. I made my own wreath! Woot woot!
I was really trying to get this done as a holiday project...heck, I even bought two wreath forms because I was certain I’d have time to make one for me and one to bring up to my sister’s as a house warming gift. HA! It just didn’t happen. I should have known that if I wanted one done for the holidays, I should have started well in advance. Oh well, there is always next year, right?
So I was left with two blank forms, and lots of felt. What was I to do? Welp, make a wreath for a wintery mantel, of course! Adding a little something to the mantel could help to combat the inevitable post-holiday-décor-blues!
I wanted a wreath that was grey and white, and well, wintery. I wasn’t exactly sure what to do until I saw Mallory's wreath.
It was a total inspiration for me. So I headed over to Michael's, picked up some varying sized pearls and got to business.
I cut charcoal grey felt {that I already owned} into strips. I wrapped them around the form in an overlapping pattern, hot gluing things in place as I moved along.
Once the felt was done, I started gluing various sized pearls in a random pattern on the wreath. I didn’t have a method, I just went with it and tried not to think. When I formed a big enough cluster, I used a couple of the smaller sized pearls and glued them around the outskirts of the main cluster.
Then it was time to add a ribbon to the top so I could hang it from my mantel mirror. I tried white ribbon first, but it was just too bleh. I knew the tiffany blue ribbon I used to DIY a bunch of stuff for our wedding would be perfect, so I dug through some old supplies and found just what I was looking for. The ribbon may be a little wrinkled, but it’s nothing a little ironing can’t fix. {Clearly, I have been too lazy to bust out the iron to fix the ribbon...maybe I'll get to it one day. For now, just ignore it in the picture. ;)}
I really like how my very first wreath turned out, although I'm not sure it stands up to the beauty that Mallory created! :) Head on over to her and Savannah's blog to see more of the awesome things they do!
PS - In the last picture you can catch a glimpse of the other mirror that I was priming on the back porch. Hopefully I can share that makeover, along with my winter-ish mantel, very soon!
