How I spent my 31st Birthday....
My lovely sister Emily of {
LOLA FLORAL}, graced Madi and I with her presence for my birthday. Kyle is on a big hunting trip in Wyoming and was gone for my birthday, and is STILL gone---we miss him so much.
So, with all that's been going on and Kyle being out of town, I was kind of a grumpy mess on my special day =( Having Emily here was a breath of fresh air. I love talking business with her and bouncing ideas off of each other.
So, she asked me what I wanted to do the morning of my birthday, and I decided it would be fun to drive into Port Angeles (we are currently calling Sequim, WA home) and do a little Antiquing. So, we got ourselves a Pumpkin White Chocolate Latte', and drove the 20 minutes to the town next door. It was Sunday, so we weren't counting on a lot being open in a small town, but we had a great time!
We ending up pulling some inspiration from the best (only 3 half-way descent booths to draw from) booth inside an Antique Mall. The artist had done some working with paper and made a beautiful wreath from old book pages. I decided making one of those wreaths with my sister would be the perfect Birthday Afternoon, so we finished our Antiquing there, and stopped in at
Joann's on the way back home to pick up a few supplies.
Supply List
- Old Book/Hymnal/Sheet Music- I have a stash that I cherish {see how I've used them before here}
- Foam Wreath Form
- Greening Pins (50-100)
- OPTIONAL- Floral Ribbon, embellishments
The Process
Emily and I chose different books- and it is amazing how different our wreaths turned out- we decided sheet music would have been a fun approach, or even spray painting the edges of your book black or even a funky color before you start tearing pages out would create a unique look.
All you do, is tear a page out of your book, fold it in the middle and crumple, then push one of the pins through the middle and shove it into the wreath form.
My book pages were way thinner and way more fragile than the one Emily chose... so take that into consideration- I had to be very ginger when folding and pinning in order to not rip the pin right through.
Just repeat this process over, and over and over keeping a close eye on holes created from not putting the pages close enough together into the form.
I did put some in the "inside" of the ring and "outside/bottom" to make it look super full.
Emily wasn't happy I wanted to take her photo while she was working, because neither of us had showered, or cared what we looked like that day (perfect birthday)... but I did it anyways, and isn't she cute?!
Here's us together with our finished products- I absolutely LOVE mine and found a beautiful mirror to hang it on. [Do make sure, you only use this wreath indoors--- the paper will soak up moisture if it is outdoors and it will be ruined]
I'd love to see photos of your's if you make one and see how you chose to embellish!
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