Project Pinterest -- Valentine Wreath

Up until a week ago I still had our evergreen wreath on the front door, and it was definitely time for a change.  I found this wreath on Pinterest and decided to try to make it.

I first gathered my supplies:  a coat hanger, some fabric scraps and my rotary cutter.

It took a lot of scraps and a lot of tying.

I finally finished and I like the result, but I think the one on Pinterest is a little fuller.  Maybe I should have only knotted the fabric strips with single knots.

But it's on the front door and looks a lot better than Christmas greenery.  Of course, now that Valentine's Day is over, it's time to start thinking about another project for the front door.  I'll have to search Pinterest for some spring/Easter wreaths!

Project Pinterest

Katie Lloyd has been blogging about Pinterest for a few weeks, and I finally was able to secure my own account.  So now the challenge is to find something on the boards, pin it, and try to do the project.  I chose this: (originally posted here)

First I gathered my supplies.  The only thing I had to buy was a wreath form (hers was styrofoam, mine is straw -- it was cheaper!)

I stained the edges of the pages with cheap acrylic paint (to give it a more vintage look)

Then I started rolling the pages and hot gluing them to the wreath form.  At first it didn't look great.

Twenty-four hours later (with numerous interruptions), I finally finished.  I was so involved with it that I forgot to take pictures during the process.  I went through a whole 300 page book!  And this is the finished product:

and this

I'm pretty excited about the way it turned out!  Check out the Pinterest button at the left to see what others are doing!