Now that we no longer live in the boonies where no one but us could see if we decorated for the holidays or not, my kids have become very gung-ho about making sure that our house is all decked out. Halloween being our first holiday in our new neighborhood home, they have been planning for a month to deck the halls with spiderwebs and pumpkins. In the spirit of the season (ha-ha, spirit), I saw this black tulle wreath in the Pottery Barn catalogue for my front door. Not wanting to shell out the fortune for the one in the catalogue, I decided to make one myself. Heading to Hobby Lobby with list in hand, I grabbed a few simple items and literally threw this together in about 30 minutes.
- Roll of black tulle (25 yards about 7" wide) - $3.99 (Used 40% off coupon)
- 9" embroidery hoop - $1.29
- Wide orange Polka Dotted Ribbon - $3.99 (on sale for $2.00)
- Orange Cardstock
- Thin Ribbon for pennant
This craft was not exact in the least and so easy I had my 6-year-old helping me tie the tulle onto the hoop. I cut pieces off the roll of tulle about 12-16" in length and knotted them one at time around the hoop, using the entire roll (which I was very relieved that one roll was the perfect amount as I really didn't want to make a trip to buy more).
For a little added touch (which wasn't on the one in the Pottery Barn catalogue), I designed up little pennant banner, printed it out on orange cardstock, trimmed it out and strung it on some purple gingham ribbon I had in my stash, tying each end of the ribbon to each side of the wreath. You can download and print out one of your own below onto an 8 1/2" x 11" piece of cardstock.
To hang the wreath, I cut a 3' piece of the wide polka dotted ribbon and looped it around the top of the wreath and actually stapled it to together to hold it on. To hang it I just used some strong tape and taped it to the inside top of the door.
Easy Peasy. And I think it turned out very cute. Take that, Pottery Barn! ;)
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