Wreath-Making 101

Ok, this post has a little to do with college football. I know I'm breaking my promise from yesterday. Remember the Florida wreath from a previous post? I decided to make Stacey one for her door, since she liked this idea. So that's just what I did. Nothing I wouldn't do for Stacey Suzanne :-) Anyways, I went to Hobby Lobby and grabbed some stuff to make the wreath.

I bought a foam wreath, some floral pins, blue ribbon to cover the wreath, geo mesh ribbon, letters, spray paint, and some decorative ribbon. First, I spray painted the letters.

I realized when I got started that this was on one of the pages of newspaper I was using:

Yeah, that handsome little man in the middle is my nephew, Barrett. Oops. I couldn't help it that the only paper I had around was an old County Record.

Next, I covered the form with blue ribbon and then attached the geo mesh ribbon to the form with the floral pins.

Sorry for the crappy pictures. My camera battery was dead, so I just used my camera on my iPhone. Then I added the orange ribbon. And for the record, yes I realize that the blue is not navy like Auburn. But they didn't have navy geo mesh and everywhere I looked online was sold out. So she is getting a Gator colored Auburn wreath. Part her, part me. We complete each other. (and Stacey just gagged reading this, lol)

Finally, Stacey got impatient and hot glued the letters on. Guess I was taking too long to get it done. Haha. This is the semi-finished project.

I ran out of orange ribbon, so I am going back to Hobby Lobby today and hopefully they will have some more so I can make a bow. I also think I am going to get more letters and spell out Auburn and either get a tiger or some footballs kinda like in the photo below. Oh and fix that orange ribbon. It doesn't look even.

I do like the grape vine wreath too. Maybe the next one... And I feel better that whoever made that wreath also used royal blue instead of navy. At least I'm not the only one.

So that is my little project that I recently worked on. Guess our neighbor liked it so much, she wants me to make her six wreaths for her in her son's college colors. Sounds like I will be busy for a bit. Which reminds me, that I need to call her and get that set up. Happy crafting, ya'll!

Rammer, Jammer... no that's not right

Weagle, Weagle, War Damn Eagle!