Fall Wreath...check!

Since the time has finally come and it is my last official week of summer vacation, I am living it up. Okay, not really, but I am trying to get everything done that I had planned on doing this summer, even the not so fun things. I'm a total procrastinator and have had things on my list since the first day of summer that I have yet to do. But, this week will be different. I WILL finally change my name on my social security card, I've only been married almost 3 years...I think I might have put it off a little too long? I will also go through that box sitting in the basement that has yet to be unpacked from moving into our house. I hate things that have no place and EVERYTHING in that box has no place. Maybe the garbage is the place for it. I started on my list yesterday (the fun things of course), laying in the sun on the deck, playing with the dogs, lunch date with the hubby, planning a dinner with my dad, covering the last of my pillows, working on this years Christmas gifts, and making a new fall wreath. See, I got a lot done yesterday!

Today I'll start my day with showing you how I made my new fall wreath, because lets face it, after this week it's fall. So I'm sure you all need a new wreath for your door to welcome the lovely fall weather. Anyways...I've been dying to try the yarn wreaths that I see everywhere. So I bought some orange fall colored yarn last week and decided to try my hand at this pin I found to make the foam form that I would wrap the yarn around.

This is from here.

It's more difficult than this pin made it look. Maybe I bought the wrong foam, but I figured it out. When I just connected the two ends of mine it didn't make a circle shape, it looked more like a squished and bent oval. So I got creative and started cutting it and piecing it together with duct tape to make a circle. It was all going to be covered anyways so I didn't worry about the duct tape. Once I got that figured out I had a genius idea!!! I didn't connect the last piece. That way it stayed as one long tube while I wrapped the yarn around it. This seriously probably saved me HOURS of wrapping the yarn! Because it wasn't connected, I was able to wrap my yarn way faster around the tube than it would have been to pull the whole yarn 'chunk' (I don't know what you call it) over and over through the circle. It only took me about 20 minutes to wrap the entire thing and from the tutorials I've read it's taken people 2 or more hours to wrap their wreath! Crazies. I would have definitely lost my patience. Once I got close to the ends I left a little room to duct tape the wreath together and then wrapped over that part. Then I made some fabric flowers out of canvas and burlap and added some fun fall ball/berry things and an acorn and now I have 'new fall wreath' checked off my list!


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