What I did today instead of cleaning

So a few blog posts down is the picture of the Christmas wreath I made. Well it's about time to do something with it. I'm sort of proud I did something about it before August or Thanksgiving. Let's be honest though, I did it to procrastinate cleaning today.

So, I found a necklace tutorial (and I do want to make this necklace soon). http://lollyjaneboutique.blogspot.com/2011/03/interchangeable-felt-necklace.html

I ended up taking the flower part of the tutorial to use on the wreath. I cut up 4 sheets of felt. The instructions said to use 1/4 of 8 1/2" x 11" felt sheets. So since I wanted to try 4 different colors on the wreath I made 16 spirals.

Then I started gluing with the hot glue gun. The hot glue really intimidates me because of how much can come out and because I always burn my finger pads.

I glued as i went then flooded the bottom with hot glue just to make sure they wouldn't unravel.

I thought the roses on the necklace were going to turn out a lot larger than mine did. I like how the roses look lined up on the table but then it was hard to figure out how to arrange them on the wreath.

So I pinned the roses onto the wreath using sewing pins. I put the wreath on top of our new bookshelf. The bookshelf isn't really organized yet like it will be. I'm going to paint some of the photo frames to match and make the books more aligned. So don't judge me for this. Also, the photo is off center to avoid the bright sun that was coming in the window on the right. I didn't crop it because all of these pictures were badly taken with my camera phone. Gives me a chance to show off a little of Taylor's painting that was her wedding gift to us.

So what do you think? I think it would look nicer if the roses were a larger size. Luckily it isn't permanent. After I arranged the flowers I took Bernie out and thought that I would leave it like this until I could get more felt sheets. Then replace them with larger flowers and use these to make necklaces or as an embellishment for almost any other craft. Once I got back inside the wreath was already growing on me. I think I'll leave it this way.