Happy Valentine's Wreath!

Happy Valentines Everyone! (Or Singles Appreciation Day for my single folk!)
Hope your day was filled with love, laughter, and lots of chocolate! hehe

Alright, so I think this is going to be my last wreath for a bit.  I have officially made about 8 wreaths so far, and I am going a bit stir crazy for a new project.  I think I have found the new project too....will update you later this week (its a big one and I am pretty nervous about it!)

Anywho, here is my pretty Valentine's Heart Wreath....its oh so pretty!

Oh, I love it so much!  I think it looks pretty luxurious, and believe me its as soft as it looks!  I originally found it here.

So here is how you make it. You will need

1. 1 Heart Shaped Wreath Form (found mine at Jo-ann's for 4 bucks, they will probably be on sale now though as its Valentines.
2. Straight Pins (I bought a package of 700, though you will not need that many)
3. Red Felt (maybe a yard and a half or less?)

That's it! So easy.

Directions

1. Cut out circles.  I used a cup to measure mine and traced with a marker, no I have no idea how many I cut out (honestly I don't want to know).

2. Fold circle in half, like-a soo

3. Fold again.  (Thanks to my boyfriend for being a delicious hand model :)

4.  Now stick the straight pin through the pointed end of the circle.

5. Pin into form

6. Repeat a gazillion times!

And there you have it!  If you don't like the heart idea (for all you love haters!)  feel free to switch up the pattern and do a circle wreath with different colored felt (just make sure you get the wreath forms that are rounded).


Hope you all like it!

P. s   I have been tossing the idea around of selling these bad boys, anyone interested?  I need opinions as to whether I should open an etsy account or not, and name ideas!

Have a great Valentines!

Cro -  out!

Caroline and Logan's Valentine Blog

Sorry I was a bit MIA this week, I got ANOTHER cold from the little man I nanny, so I have literally bed bound for the last couple of days with a roll of toilet paper in one hand and all matter of cold medicine in the other.

Despite the lack of blog activity I have finished count um' 3 new wreath's that are going to be sent out to there lucky owners tomorrow morning! woo hoo! I am so excited!!! I truly hope the people that get them, love them and maybe they are kind enough to take pictures with them for me?? I would also love pictures of them hanging on your doors!!

So the first one I am going to show you is the first in my series of Valentines Wreaths for the lovely Caroline and Logan Kennedy! Let me tell you, I am so glad I used these two as my first guinea pigs because this wreath is quite possibly my favorite thing I have ever made...ever. So Caroline and Logan are two of the sweetest people that I met when I first moved down here to North Carolina. They both went to NC State, got engaged on campus (Logan proposed with a ring pop....um...precious), and I have been so lucky to stay in contact with both of them over the years.  They also recently got married (you can find their supa cute blog aqui) so I thought how fitting for a Valentines wreath to be given to this happy couple!!

So here it is, Hope you too like it!

Oh my gosh, this thing is so precious I cant even stand it!

For the full directions on how to make a wreath like this, check out my previous post! But here are the pictures of the wreath, through the creation process.

Here is the wreath form (what a boring picture)

So the first step to make the wreath is wrapping it in ribbon. I chose this beautiful Valentine red, that I love! As you can see this is also the start of applying the coffee filters.

Man, oh man did this turn out nice!  I love how the white filters make the wreath so fluffy, its just so girly. 

One of my favorite parts of this wreath is the sides; I am pretty proud of the ingenious idea I thought of to fix a problem I had with the last wreath.  So with the last wreath I didnt like that you could see through the ribbon to where I had hot glued it to the form.  I thought it just looked a bit messy, so I thought of colored straight pins.  This way I could pin the ribbon to the wreath and it was much more clean to look at.  Also, if Logan and Caroline hate the ribbon they can just un-pin it! 

I also pinned ribbon to the inside.  Tim thinks the back of the wreath looks like a flower (how artsy of him) and I agree.  This wreath is just so clean looking, I love it!  

So Logan and Caroline, I hope you love your wreath as much as I do!

Happy Valentine's!