Pinteresting Summer!

At the beginning of summer, I told my husband I was going to do one Pinterest idea a week during my summer vacation.  Four weeks of summer have passed, and a monogrammed door wreath is the only project that I truly completed myself (we have done some landscaping, and Dan made me a wine rack from the wood pallets I got off my neighbor).  All in all, I'm a little behind on my "Pinterest Summer".  

I have been looking at monogrammed wreaths on Pinterest for quite some time.  The problem - there were so many I liked.  A little over a week ago, a girlfriend and I went out to some local garage sales.  After perusing the sales, we stopped by a wholesale priced craft store, and while I was there, I decided to pick a wreath and just "do it".  Thankfully, I have the Pinterest app on my phone, so it only took me a few minutes to hit search and find one I liked.  Of course, once I picked a wreath I liked, I had to go to two different stores to find all my supplies :).  

The picture above shows all the supplies I needed for my wreath.  I found the wreath I wanted to do on a blog I have been following this summer - the writer seems to be my muse for house ideas this summer.  What I mean is, I just need her house to become mine.  :)

The wreath I picked used green moss on the monogrammed letter.  I purchased the moss, but I also picked up some turquoise paint for the letter - I have been dying to do something with turquoise, and Dan said "no" to repainting the front door.  So, I figured if I couldn't bring the door to turquoise, I would bring a little turquoise to the door.  Plus, if I hated the turquoise, I could always paint it green and hot glue on the moss.  No worries, the turquoise was perfect :)  Now, I just need to make a trip back to Hobby Lobby to return the moss....or at least to exchange it for supplies for my next Pinterest project.  

I tried to keep most of the other parts of the wreath true to the original design.  I couldn't find yellow "sprigs" at the craft store, so I used yellow forsythia flowers (a favorite), and I found some cool silk flowers with a zebra print (sounds strange but they were perfect) that replaced the fabric chevron flowers I would have had to make.  Once I got home, I started right away.  See the steps below!

I definitely hot glued like a crazy woman on this project.  The first flowers I tried to attach wouldn't glue well to the wreath, so I decided to glue my forsythia together and then glue them to the wreath.  After they dried, I added the zebra flowers.  The monogrammed letter was a little tricky to attach at the end.  I "eyed" the amount of burlap ribbon I needed to get the letter to hang at the right distance.  Then, I hot glued the ribbon to the back of the letter.  Once it was dry, I fed the ribbon through the back of the wreath - and once again, hot glued like crazy.  It's been about 10 days, and so far, nothing has come apart.  Project 1 complete - I love this wreath!