Fleece Christmas Wreath

Howdy there. Pull up a stool and I'll tell you about this fuzzy wreath. It is based off from the Nonna Wreath from Jones Design Company.  SO very fun to make and I am loving that shaggy festive look. I found the material at Goodwill. This is the perfect time of year to look for blankets/fabric for the Holiday's there....they have a boatload of funkiness. I used a red fleece blanket and a green fleece one for the holly. The button for the holly I had on hand. You've gotta try this!! Check out the link above: there is a tutorial on the site. 

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 My little dog can fall sleep in just about any position. It's amazing to me how much sleep a puppy requires (and the places she ends up when she decides it's time to rest). 

For Instance:

 A day without a nap is like a cupcake without frosting. 

~Terri Guillemets

  Oh sleep!! It is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole.

~Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head
And kick every worriment out of the bed.
~Edmund Vance Cooke

 Sleep is the best meditation. 

~ Dalai Lama

 

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.  

~Anthony Burgess

Sheet Music Christmas Wreath

I'm in love with sheet music nowadays. I'm sorry, I just can't help myself. There is no project a little sheet music couldn't improve and I challenge you to find one. :-) Seriously, though....take me up on this challenge and I'll do my best to prove you wrong and me right. Because that is the natural way of things....you're wrong and I'm right. Right? Right. ;-)

This project was pure "kitchen dinner craftiness". While my Munchkin munched, I chatted and crafted and came up with something strange. Here's the run-down:

You Need:

Sheet music 

Hot glue

Felt (brown and red)

Green Ribbon

Wicker wreath

Burlap

Red button

~Cut the paper into long strips and trim them to look like this:

~One by one, attach each piece to the wreath frame by hot gluing under the front edge, wrapping the paper around the frame (making sure not to expose any of the wreath-keep it fairly tight) and hot glue the end in place. Do this with all the pieces of paper until the wreath is completely covered. 

~Cut some brown felt to resemble twigs and hot glue them into place. You don't need to cover every surface of the felt with glue....a couple of well placed dots should do the trick. 

~Cut red circles of felt into berries and hot glue them to the felt sticks.

~To make the evergreen ribbon detail.....use one long piece of ribbon and cut lots of small pieces of the same ribbon as well. Hot glue each smaller piece to the longer one, aiming them upward like an arrow tip. Hot glue the evergreen boughs to the wreath as well.

~Glue a piece of burlap into a circle and stick it on the middle, between the boughs. Hot glue a red button to the center of the burlap. 

TA DAAA!!

Kinda funky, as always!!

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