Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ornament Wreath




Around Christmas, I saw the original wreath tutorial at Eddie Ross and knew that I simply must have one of my own!
(...but not until all those ornaments went on clearance!)

So, about a week to ten days after Christmas, I headed to the stores in search of some deeply discounted, round ornaments. And I scored the jackpot at Super Target. All Christmas decor was 75% off and they had quite a few tubes of ten coordinating ornaments, originally priced at $5.00, but now clearanced to $1.25! So I bought 5 tubes...equaling 50 ornaments and a total of $6.25!
(the original project recommends about 80, but I was able to get by with 50.)


When I got home, I searched for a wire hanger - and found one.
(I hate the awful things and gave away all of ours last year...save one.)
So, wire hanger in hand, I got to stringing those lovely ornaments.
Be sure to glue those tops on, even if they seem like they won't fall off - they will and it's a pain to get them back on.

Ornaments strung, I then waited for ribbon to be on (a good) sale - and this week at Hobby Lobby it's 50% off! So, I watched a few video tutorials on how to make a ribbon bow, then just did my own thing (because I'm physically incapable of following directions) and it turned out pretty good.
I ended up sewing my little bunch of ribbon together - most tuts I saw said to just tie securely with a twist tie - what they don't tell you is that all the folds in the middle will pop out!!
A handful of attempts later, I had a bow that was good enough!
Oh, and the ribbon I got was wire edged.

Not to be braggy, but I think it turned pretty awesome!

14 comments:

  1. I LOVE IT!!!! I want one too:) This did turn out fantastic. Great job Katie! I knew I should have tried to get out with the kids to look at clearance christmas stuff:(

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  2. Amy - garage sale season is coming up before we know...those are great places to get even cheaper ornaments!!

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  3. Oh that's fantastic! Funilly enough, I was busy making one, following that same tutorial just yesterday, and have my post ready to go, and just needed to take some photos, but I DROPPED the wreath and broke a load of the baubles! Now I have to start again - and might even have to buy more baubles when I was actually trying to put extra baubles to good use. SO ANNOYING! Yours definitely came out excellent though! Well done!

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  4. It IS awesome!! You totally have the right to brag a little. It's beautiful!

    I am SO not crafty, but occasionally I'll see something I'd really like to make. I did that in December and will probably share my craftiness on my blog soon. Although, it will NOT be as impressive as yours!

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  5. wow girl that truned out beautiful!!!!

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  6. They turned out really nice! I love the colors! Will you do mine for next Christmas?! ;)

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  7. Very nice job Katie. I love the colors too.

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  8. This is just truly amazing! My mom has always wanted one! I must try to make this for her as a christmas present for next year. It's such a wonderful idea. :)

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  9. Oh..my..goodness! Brag away because that is beautiful!

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  10. that looks great! I'll have to file that away in the back of my mind for next Christmas. I found some cute ornaments on another blog and did buy everything I need for those after Christmas when everything was like 80% off. Blogs can be soooo educational!!!

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  11. So this is just totally beautiful. I LOVE the colors. You can leave it up well past Christmas since it is more winter type colors. Awesome job!!!

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  12. I wanted to make one too...but not any extra money to spend even on clearance balls & ribbon. So will wait until next season!

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