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!
