{One Project Down...100 to go!}

Finally finished a project last night that I had started over a month ago....



I worked on it one night, had half of it done, but didn't get around to pulling it out to finish until last night.

I got the wreath at Hobby Lobby for around $2 or $3 I think? It could have been on sale. It's a straw wreath. I left the plastic wrap on the wreath and wrapped it in yarn, somewhat sloppily {that's a real word}. Pretty self explanatory, but if you need help there, check out this post.

The flowers were inspired by this wreath done by A Pretty Life in the Suburbs.

The welcome letters are metal scrapbook letters, hot glued right to the pennant.

PS, I might be the last crafter out there to use pennants in a project.

One month to finish a project is better than never, right?

What projects have you been putting off finishing?

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Yarn Wreath Makeover

I've outgrown the colors in this wreath since I changed the colors in my girls room...

Rather than tossing it, I decided to give it a little makeover

I tore off the flowers and ribbon off (I hot glued those suckers on pretty well!) and wrapped new yarn right over the yellow yarn. You can see the original tutorial I posted HERE. Then I wrapped the yarn in sections over the white. easy. peasy.

Added a branch I found out front, not so easy. I'm sure there's an easy way to do this, but I just started shoving it in and before I knew it I had snapped the darn thing in half.
Nothing some hot glue and strategic yarn wrapping can't fix.

It sat like this for a couple weekends...

 

Cute, but it was missing something.

Then at Dollar Tree I spotted this... 

 

(Can you believe Christmas stuff is out already?)

After a few seconds of dissecting the christmas spray, a couple dabs of hot glue, and some tulle, she's done!

 

Almost.

I still need to paint the weird red beaks on the birds brown...

then this will be one piece of a larger project I have in mind.

PS, don't you LOVE our avocado skin textured walls?

Yeah, me neither...

*sigh*

Breakdown cost on the makeover...
$1

The yarn was leftover from a few hats I had crocheted. The flowers I already had and attached with pearl corsage pins left over from our wedding (I did all the flowers for our wedding..fun!).

If you don't have have any supplies, you can still make this for around $5. The wreath was originally from the dollar store, and you can buy cheap yarn at Walmart. The flowers came from a small bunch of flowers I got on sale for a $1 at Hobby Lobby (their flowers are almost always 50% off).

I love a good cheap project makeover!
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Have you revamped any old projects lately?

{Guest Blogger}

Remember this wreath?

No? It's been awhile...

Melanie at The Crafty Cupboard has my {version} of the yarn wreath tutorial up on her blog today.

If you haven't seen it before...

Or need to refresh your memory.

Go check it out!

If you haven't visited The Crafty Cupboard before, then you really need to go check it out!

Happy Crafting!