Just a word to the wise...people who's websites are linked to Pinterest are either professionals or super duper crafters. I thought i'd be all crafty tonight and make my own Christmas bulb wreath. Bad idea.
I should have taken Mark's advice to stop while I was a head and could still return the expensive pile of bulbs I bought. I had originally set out to make this, DIY Wreath.
Pretty little thing, huh?
Well I start out my cheap bulb hunt at Target- wrong place to start. For a pack of 8 or 10, it was $15. I did peruse the already made wreaths and thought, "Who spends $20 on a wreath!?" Next I went to Michaels, and settled on several packs of bulbs for $5.99 a piece. $33 later, I left with more work and $ down the drain that if I just bought a new one. I digress...
30 minutes of hot gluing bulbs shut, I get them hung on my not-so-perfect-circle of a hanger.
This POS I ended up with, doesn't even hang on the door. The bulbs are of course, huge and it sticks out from the door quite a ways. I'm not even sure if I'd be able to close the door if I left it on there.
Here is what I ended up with....
I took it off the door, to have two bulbs come off and shatter all over the place.
Word to the wise, DON'T do this yourself. Go buy a pretty little pre-made $20 wreath from Target and save yourself. Unless you can find bulbs from the dollar store, and have some eye for working bulbs onto a hanger- not worth the work.
Excuse me while I go take the bulbs off and try to stuff the hot glued bulbs back into their packaging, and pretend they are new.
~H
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