Birds and Flowers Fall Wreath

I started blogging last September.  One of my first few craft projects was my fall wreath.  I still love it, but now that I've changed the exterior colors of my house, I wanted a new one.  Our house was beige and our door was dark brown, so the old wreath was perfect.  Now, our walls are white and our door is yellow.  I wanted something fresh and more modern.

I headed to Michael's to buy the wreath form. My mom has a huge stash of yarn and I went "shopping" in her drawers.  I also found an adorable little bird.  I never thought I would be much of a bird decorating person, but I kind of really like it.  I, also figure my almost two year old niece will love the "titi" as she calls birds. 

I wrapped a grey yarn for about 3/4 of the way and a white yarn for the other 1/3.  My free yarn was extremely thin, meaning lots and lots of wrapping.  I hot glued the yarn every so often, just to make sure it was secure.

I then made some simple felt flowers and hot glued them to the wreath.  I forgot to take pictures of the flowers in process.  Oops.  I attached some white ribbon I had in my ribbon stash.  Here she is on my yellow door.  I tried to keep the wreath simple and modern.  I wanted it to match the look I'm going for on my house exterior.

Here's the bird.  So cute.

Here is a view a bit further back of the wreath.

I love the look of it.  If only I could change those terrible floors.  Ugh.  I've been doing a ton of work outside.  I will do a full exterior picture when it's a bit further along.  I'm scheming some ideas on how to convince my hubby that we NEED new tile and a new wooden walkway.  Let's see if it works.  I hope you have a great weekend.  We will be celebrating my dads, moms, and hubby's birthday on Sunday night.  It should be fun.  

I'll be linking up to these parties

and Beyond the Picket Fence, Between Naps on the Porch, DIY Showoff, Addicted 2 Decorating, Remodelaholic

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