Acorn Wreath...tips

My cute friend introduced me to MADE website. I didn't know that I w

as the last one in the world to know about her. She's cute, and shows us cute things. you should head over there. This month was about making stuff for little boys. Some of my favorites was the toy car holder, and the spray painted pillows. maybe one of these days I'll get aroun

d to making them.

Well I was snooping around her website and found this Tutorial here.

a group of us moscow mamacitas do a bunco night. for prizes we are suppos

e to bring something used, make something and if you really want to, you can buy som

ething. Just so you don't have to spend a dime if you don't/can't.

So I saw the acorn wreaths and thought CHEAP and SIMPLE. And it goes PERFECTLY with our THEME! (home decor)....

My plan was to do 2. One for me and one for bunco.

Spray painted Green. cause I have NO St. Patty's day Decor

and it would also work with the new season! SPRING!!

well I was wrong about one of those things...it being simple.

i guess it was simple in that it didn't take master craftsman skil

ls to hot

glue a million kidney beans on. but it ending up being way more time consuming that expected. Plus I made two. one for me and one for the winner. and I had way more complications.

This is how it turned out. and here are my tips.

Lots of glue, in the tutorial she says it takes a lot of glue, but make sure and smother them. I had a bunch of them fall off while painting :( and handling. and another mistake, I did--I threw away the beans when they fell off. save them because that g

ap becomes pretty noticeable.

If you are spray painting it with a nice color spray paint (which probably means $$) and you are doing more than one wreath.

PRiME! since the beans are so dark it took a whole can on one little

wreath. Spray paint them white first. You know, the inexpensive white paint. b

ottom shelf matte stuff.

if you are doing one wreath then plan on using the WHOLE can.

even with all that paint, it wouldn't stick on some of them?? beans.

It was a good project, and the kids helped.

The Bunco Wreath looked like this...green with wite fabric. Pic co

urtesy of MADE

I ran out of White scrap fabric so used some pink scrap fabric

These are two other versions found on her wesite. you have scroll back a lot, and there might even be more colors?! My very fav is the white and orange.

I'm in love with orange lately!

They are great though, aren't they?

I think they would make great presents for your girlfriends! who doesn't like something to spice up their homes?