Christmas Wreath for Kitchen Tutorial

As the Holiday season draws near I have been scouring Pinterest for Christmas Crafts and Thanksgiving Crafts and ways to make the holiday extra special.  I found this pin about placing small wreaths on your kitchen cabinets and I pinned it and headed off to Hobby Lobby.

For less than $10 I bought the following items:

Pipe Cleaners that look like wreathlike

Decorative Cookie Cutters

Decorative Glitter Bows

Ribbon

First I used a cup, then I used a candle to create the circle:

 Then I measured my Cabinets and determined I needed 14" of string for the 12 wreaths I was going to make:

After that I plugged in my Hot Glue Gun and glued the pieces together:

Tada:

I took out the miniature cookie cutters and paired them up!  Then, I glued the on the wreaths:

Time to glue on the Sparkly Bow!

And Finished:

 Final Step:  Tape to your Cabinets:

The Finished Look 

 Merry Christmas everyone and Happy Holidays!

Preparing for the 4th of July!

I am addicted to Pinterest, did you know this?  Well, follow me and you'll see all my pins.  I've been especially pinning holiday decorations and what better holiday than to plan for than Independence Day!

I am a wreath person - I want a wreath to decorate my door year round!  I made a Wine Cork Wreath which I LOVE!  Every holiday I change the ribbon for the season because, well...I always drink wine.  My new home that I live in has a door that faces west, which of course is when the sun is the hottest..blah blah.  My corks were glued on with hot glue, and the heat of the sun was so hot it ended up melting my glue and my corks were falling off one by one.  :(

So I went on to Pinterest and started looking for 4th of July wreaths and found this one that I loved.  So I made it!  Here's what I did:

16" Foam Wreath
Red Yarn
White Yarn
Blue Yarn
String
Wreath door hanger
Wood Stars
White Paint
Hot Glue

First I wrapped the Red Yarn, then the White Yarn than the Blue Yarn

*I did 13 Red & White Stripes as per the American Flag! 

Viola!

I then took some wood stars from Michael s and painted them White, then I hot glued them onto the blue portion

I LOVE IT!  

But it wasn't enough...

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It needed something

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Patriotic

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So I took a canvas tote bag and CUT it up into mini flags: 

 Then I had to make sure I made the right size letters to spell out USA, so I traced my flag and wrote up letters.

I cut the letters up onto some Vintage Fabric, Hot Glued the letters onto the flags and then I cut up little strips and glued them onto the top to hand them from.

I placed the flag on the wreath and gued the flags in place (becuase of the incline) 

I LOVE IT!

God Bless America
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and Pinterest!