I've been wanting to do a fall wreath forever but I guess I had just never got around to it.
Now that we finally have a place were proud to call home I've decided it was the perfect time to give it a try.
I got the twig wreath from a craft store for $3.00 which I thought was a great buy. I also bought some of the leaves for it there. I bought them on the long garland because I got more for less. I also bought the letter M there. It was just plain wood.
I decided that maybe I need some different colors of leaves and hit up the dollar store because that's how I roll. I wish I went there first because they had a much better (well cheaper) selection of leaves and I found that the colors were much nicer.
I started by taking some left over fabric from the Rag Quilt I made and used it to cover the letter M.
It took a little longer to do then I thought but I think it turned out pretty good. It probably would have been easier to paint it but oh well.
For the rest of it I just cut the leaves of the branch and stuck them in throughout the wreath and then glued them in place.
I tried to make a pumpkin for the bottom of the wreath out of raffia which I used the same deign that I did for the Wire Pumpkin. You can't notice it much in the picture but when you are up close you can see it.
This was very simple to make and the cost was about $15.00
Here's a look at the finished product.
Since my evening did not get off to a good start I did not get done what I had planned. Sew what? That's how I roll...
I started the afternoon off with my camera not working right... which I need to post pics on my blog so I couldn't go any further until I fixed it. I fixed it all right. I decided to take tape (I only had electrical nearby) and cover the lock button on my memory chip because some how it went missing. I popped the chip in and great it takes pictures.
I then remove it from the camera and the tape is not attached to it, aghhhhhh. I knew electrical tape was sticky but not that sticky. I spent about an hour and a half after that trying to get the tape out and tweezers were just to big to fit in. I got some chunks out and had to give up.
We made the BIG trip to the city (us country folk have to plan these kind of trips hahaha)
I found some great things at Michael's, WalMart and GoodWill. I was so excited to get home and get something made so my one follower could wake up to a post :)
We made it through the door at 9:30 and still hadn't eaten supper my little projects were going to have to wait. I finally had to choose.... which one I was going to do first.
I decided to make a pumpkin. I'm still not sure if I'm happy with it and it may end up torn apart by tomorrow but for now I am going to post a picture of it.
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