pintrest projects as promised

I finally got around to taking pictures of my competed pintrest projects. The first is a wreath for my front door. This is all over pintrest but my favorite tutorial comes from an old blog post from 2009 from Fingerprints on the Fridge Thank you pintrest for helping me find it two years later!!

To make this wreath, basically all you have to do is bend one of those old school hangers into a circle and untwist the top to open it. Don't unbend the hook.

Take your trusty hot glue gun and glue the tops on your ornaments (I thought I knew better than the blogger and skipped this step, MISTAKE!!! They all started falling off once it got full) You will use about 100 ornaments plus I used about 25-30 small ones to fill in the holes.

Once they are all guled, you simply thread them one at a time onto the wire. At first it doesn't look like it will work, I got a little scared, but I promise it will. You will need to thread small ornaments here and there to cover the holes.

Keep twisting the ornaments around once it starts getting full so that they stack ontop of each other.

After my wreath was full I kept twisting and arranging to get the ornaments exactly how I liked them and then glued them into place with my glue gun. This helps to keep the wire covered. I even added a few small ones and glued them directly to the other balls to fill in the holes. The tutorial didn't mention this, but I thought it was a good idea.

Finally, attach a bow (I'm a terrible bow maker so I bought mine at Hobby Lobby 50% off) and hang it on your door. Look back, and marvel at your work :)