Life After I "Dew"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...all over Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, you name it, social media is full of people decorating trees, putting up lights, and even baking Christmas goodies.  Out with the turkey and in with the jolly, fat, guy in a red suit!  Actually I'm fairly certain some people hadn't even given thanks before they were playing Christmas songs on their car radios.

Last year I had pinned this tutorial with every intention of making an ornament wreath for our front door. Well last year came and went and the wreath I had for years did the trick and therefore it never got made.  Plus I never got off my booty to take advantage of the after Christmas ornament sales and Lord knows I'm not paying full price to make a wreath.

Flash forward, my grandma cleaned out all of her holiday decorations a couple of months ago leaving me the sole owner of 13 Rubbermaid tubs FULL of snowmen, garland, ornaments, plates, platters, candles, you name it.  I told Jimmy a week ago that I wanted to make this wreath but completely wasn't looking forward to going out in the madness that is holiday shopping and then DUH I remembered all those boxes and was determined to work with what I had.

Well grandma did not disappoint.  I almost had plenty of ornaments to make my vision come to life. Here's the deal, Jimmy is very traditional when it comes to Christmas decorations.  He likes red, green, silver and gold and that's about it. So I have to keep that in mind whenever I'm feeling festive.  While I was able to keep this wreath mostly husband approved, I did have to mix in a few blue bulbs to make it work.

I need to get some ribbon to cover the hook of the coat hanger but overall I'm impressed with the way it turned out.  Thankfully you can't see the "hook" from the road so, let's be honest, I will most likely never get around to covering it up.  I had to get creative when it came to making it full enough because I was getting close to running out of ornaments.  I ended up going back through it and putting some "odd" shaped and non-solid colored bulbs in and topping it off with a pretty decorative one with some spiral "tendrils" for added fun.  When I was finished  you couldn't even tell that I had to improvise.

As soon as I was finished I sent a picture of it to Jimmy and...HUSBAND APPROVED!  He loved it!  He may have even suggested I sell them...I may have asked him to go take his temperature {and not orally} to make sure he wasn't coming down with something.


This thing was no joke to make.  I may or may not have contemplating a glass of wine {at 10 am} while making it.  Bending the hanger into a circle was enough to make me give up before even getting started.  Oh and when the tutorial suggest hot gluing the little ornament cap onto the ornament, DO IT.  Don't think, "eh, but I don't have a hot glue gun, it'll be fine".  Get off your butt and head to the local Dollar General and buy a cheap hot glue gun.  You will save yourself LOTS of frustration and day time drinking.  And don't under estimate on the number of ornaments you'll need.  The more the merrier and you can always use any extra {I doubt you'll have extra} on your tree or in a pretty vase for a centerpiece.