I decided to try the noodle wreaths and the felt flowers you see all over Pinterest. I found this to be pretty easy and super cheap. I stole my daughter's pink noodle from the garage while she was sleeping...ssshhhhhh...
And I purchased green yarn from Walmart for $3, and bought cream, brown and khaki felt sheets at Walmart for $.23 a piece.
I taped up the noodle ends with packing tape. I just wrapped it around a couple of times, but you can see in the picture that its already lost its round shape and I think more tape would have made it stronger...and I'm not sure if I hung it right at the seam...perhaps that's not a good idea...
So after taping the seam, I then wrapped the yarn around it. This part will feel the most painful and possibly cause an arm cramp. When I finished wrapping it, I just laced the end through several wrapped strands to keep it in place.
Next, I made the felt flowers, which seemed daunting before I started but I found them easy and very satisfying to my crafting soul-yay! look what I did! So impressive!
I used Paper&Stitch's blog post: DIY Felt Flowers.
I wasn't as hard core as this, didn't really measure anything, just cut some circles based on things near me that I could trace and I didn't do all the ones she shows. Just the easy ones. Oh, and I traced with chalk after tracing with a pen and seeing how not amazing that looked.
Then I laid them on the wreath until I was happy with a design and hot glued them on. The banner was a last minute addition with some raffia, scrapbook paper and a sharpie.
I attempted a bow for the top and then quickly decided I hated bows.
I found a Command clear hook in my closet and put it on the inside of my door, upside down. Then I cut some ribbon I already had and tied it and hooked it over the Command hook.
Ta-Da!
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