A {P}inspired Wreath

Are you tired of pinecones yet? I hope not. Here's another wreath I made and shared last week at Type A and wanted to share here if you missed it.

I saw a beautiful wreath and pinned it for inspiration. And then I made my own. Which really doesn't look a whole lot like the inspiration but maybe that's a good thing sometimes.

It started with a wreath, coffee filters, cranberries and a two pack of gold, glittery reindeer from the dollar store. Along with some pinecones from the field behind my house.

The wreath was a blonde wood kind of color so I painted it a white. Then I made some flowers by folding & layering the coffee filters into flower shapes and hot glued them to the wreath. Next, I added pinecones I had gathered earlier. I clipped the cranberries from the stem and hot glued the clusters, wrapping around the edges of the wreath. The glittery gold deer finished it off.

I am thrilled with how it turned out. I have since changed the ribbon to a wider sheer red ribbon that has some glitter in it and will probably change it again once I get some burlap.

And this is why I took pictures outside. My camera doesn't play nice indoors and I don't know how to not capture reflections on glass. Fortunately for us all you can't see that I'm wearing my pajamas. It was a productive day and some days it's me or the house. The house won that day.

Here is an even worse picture of where the wreath hangs. I don't have a fireplace with a mantle or a shelf to serve as one so I've decided to decorate the top of my hutch. It's a work in progress.

Ah, that's better. I wanted to leave you with something pretty. Thanks for visiting!

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Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans! And to my other friends I hope you have a wonderful weekend and enjoy some pumpkin pie also, that's good any day right? I have my cranberry sauce made and chilling, turkey thawing and cleaning up the house for company tomorrow.

I wanted to share something I made last weekend that was once again inspired by Pinterest. <3 It's a garland made from pinecones.

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They were a little fussy to hang without flipping forward. I made 11 'flowers'.



Some have tiny pinecones for the center and some have the original pine cone tops I clipped off when taking the leaves/petals/whatever the pieces are called apart.



My camera takes better {and even then not great} pictures outside.



But really it's on my hutch. Because I don't have a mantel. Or a fantel.



Just think if my hutch was painted {like I've been wanting to} the brown pinecone flowers would pop against the blue/green/aqua/whatever color I decide on.

The tutorial to make these was fabulous. Jessica painted some of hers white, loved the look of it but ran out of patience by the time I pulled the pinecones apart and hot glued them together. I'm pretty sure I lost another fingerprint that day, but who needs those right? I used an old pair of jeans to cut circles to back the flowers and glued that to another denim circle with the yarn in the middle, like a sandwich. I put three nails in the top of my hutch {which I'm sure will come in handy with other decor down the road} and finagled wiht them until they all sat properly. I wanted more of a 'swag' but I think the yarn isn't heavy enough for the bulk and weight of the flowers.

What I really like about this is I can keep it up through fall and winter. I don't have room to store bins of decor and change things out often so multi-seasonal use decor appeals to me.

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I recently shared my love of Pinterest with you. I have 34 35 {and counting} boards and 1,434 pins {honestly I thought it was more}. This weekend I started my attempt to pin less and do more. So far I've got three down and a million {so it seems} to go

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This is cream of something. It's a dry mix that when added to water & heat becomes cream of something soup. You can use this in place of canned soup in recipes or to make a cream of something casserole. See the original pin for more details on that. My family loves it and cream of something casserole is on my meal plan at least twice a month. I used vinyl and my Cricut to label the mix/water measurements. I am going to print the recipe and tape it to the other side of the container.

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My response to this idea was "why didn't I think of that?". My salt container was almost empty so I put the rest into my shaker. Then used a mason jar lid to trace a circle, cut and screwed the cap around it. I wrote 'sugar' as a temporary label to prevent confusion. I want to use some cute scrapbook paper and a tag label some time. For now I love this.

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And this is my favorite project of the three. Serves no practical purpose but they're cute right? And when you drink espresso or hot cocoa from them it looks like you have a moustache. I don't have any action shots yet but soon I hope.

I'm not really digging the white moustache. I have thought about changing it to a bow tie or a pair of lips. Or redo the skinny stache. What do you think? These cups have matching little saucers and I thought it would be fun to dress them up also. Maybe with bow ties? Not sure how the fu manchu would look with either of those. ;)

Edited to add: Thanks to Jen for asking and bringing this to my attention. I forgot to say how I did the moustaches. Oops! I used vinyl and some sharp scissors. I traced images I found onto paper, cut them out then traced onto the back of my vinyl. This would have been easier to do using my Cricut {or a Silouhette if I had one} but I still haven't figured out the new craft room on the website. The picture that I saw looked like they were painted on or maybe done with a sharpie. I have put my 'spoon' cup in the dishwasher, top rack and it was fine. Though I prefer to handwash most of the time, just to be safe.

Thanks for visiting! I'm hoping to have {p}inspired projects at least twice a month. What have you been pinning?

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Are you addicted to Pinterest? My brother asked me what it was one day and I told him it was crafters' crack. Is there a support group? If so don't tell me about it. If loving Pinterest is wrong, I don't want to be right. If you haven't been sucked into introduced to the world of Pinterest it's like bookmarks but with pictures and organization. Be still my heart, the organization! If I could I would have boards within boards. {maybe someone from Pinterest will read this and make that happen}.

See?! Isn't it awesome! I have party, decor, food, things to do with kids, and many many more categories. It can also be very a major time suck. Not only is it a great place to keep track of ideas and inspiration but it's a fabulous place to search for ideas and inspiration or just browse the 'everything' category for hours and hours.

You can follow me here. If you would like an invitation to join just leave your e-mail or send me an e-mail and I can send you an invitation.

I've been doing a lot of pinning. A. Lot. While I can't say that I'll stop pinning, even for a hour day, I am determined to actually do some of the things I've pinned. I have seen Pinterest challenges on facebook and in the blogosphere, great idea right? Come back for some Pinterest inspired projects!