Curb Appeal: Year Round Wreath

When we bought our house 4 years ago, it had been a college rental for 10+ years. So needless to say, it needed ALOT of work. We have been chipping away on the little remodels and updates we can do ourselves and I have been chipping away at making it as homey as possible. So this weekend I decided to work on a little 'curb appeal'. Now don't get me wrong, the outside of our house has been neglected for far too many years to be able to fix it with a couple DIY projects; but I am trying my damnedest to hide the years of neglect under a few cute projects!

I'll admit, have become slightly obsessed with Pinterest (check me out here). And this project is one that I found there, but I altered it slightly. I purchased all my materials at Hobby Lobby, I have heard these wreaths are hard to find, I had no trouble and it was only $2.50! When it was all said & done I spent a little under $15 on the whole project!

Materials:

Wreath Hook

Twig wreath 

Wooden letter

1/4 yard of fabric (I used grey/white chevron)

Ribbon

Hot glue gun & glue

Directions:

1. Heat hot glue gun & Tear fabric into 1" strips.

2. Starting at one end of your letter, glue one end of a strip of fabric and begin wrapping. Gluing the fabric along the back every inch or so as you wrap, glue the end to the back and trim any extra. Then at the other end of the letter do the same (it is easier to cover the ends this way), so the strips of fabric meet in the middle. Glue the end of the last piece to the back and trim any extra.

3. With the remaining strips of fabric roll them into fabric flowers (if you dont know how to make Rolled Fabric Flowers, just google search it, there are tons of tutorials!). For smaller flowers cut the strips in half. 

4. Decide which way is up on your wreath, and hot glue the flowers in place. Then use the ribbon to make a loop to hang from your wreath hook for your letter.  

And Voila!! Your front door has a forever wreath!!