I also love decorating. Sometimes I think I should have gone to a college with an interior design program and majored in that instead of my what-in-the-world-do-you-do-with-it degree in communication. But, that's another blog entry. Anyways, I am, somewhat to my husband's chagrin, constantly looking for new (and considering we are on a budget these days, CHEAP) ways to decorate our house. I have for a while been looking for some new kind of wreath to put on our front door. I don't want your typical spring or summer floral wreath- not that there's anything wrong with those. I just wanted something different. I've always wanted people to feel welcome when they walk up to and into my house. Perhaps that's why I am always looking for ways to decorate and re-decorate my entryway...and why I've been on the lookout for a cool front door hanging. While searching Pinterest the other day, I came across a really neat square yarn wreath. I loved the idea because: 1) A square "wreath" is different and 2) I pretty much had or could very cheaply get everything I needed to make it. The idea came from THIS BLOG, but I put my own twist on it.
Here is the finished product:
All it took was a plain picture frame (I found two of these collecting dust in my closet and was about to throw them away...but why waste them?), yarn (I chose colors to coordinate with our door and living room, but anything would work), felt (for the flowers), buttons (for the centers of the flowers), a coat hanger (for the letter "B"), and spray paint (to paint the coat hanger).
Using a hot glue gun, I glued the end of the yarn on the back of the frame and started wrapping. I put dots of glue occasionally as I wrapped to keep the yarn in place. After that was finished, I cut several flower shapes out of pieces of felt and glued these down and then glued buttons on the center of them.
The final touch was adding the "B" (as my daughter says, "B is for Buskirk!") in the center. This I made by simply cutting a coat hanger with wire cutters and then bending it into the shape of a "B". I then sprayed it with a double coat of blue spray paint and - Voila!- I had my letter "B".
I attached the B with yarn and glue to the frame so that it wouldn't flop around too much.
I am rather proud of my new "wreath". I think it looks quite welcoming, and hopefully our guests think so, too!
My next craft involves the second of the two unused picture frames, so stay tuned for that... :)
