I'm not exactly excited with how uneven the edges are and the bow isn't quite centered down there, but....I did it! I didn't want to spend a ton of money, so I didn't use styrofoam balls underneath the yarn. I have some, they were just too big and it actually took MORE yarn to cover them well than it did to just wind yarn balls. I should have counted how many I did. Whew! There were a lot. I did end up buying 2 more skeins of yarn (I used 3 that I had from who knows what project), and I bought clearance ornaments from WalMart. 3 pkgs of 4 for $.25 each and a pkg of 26 for $1.24 because they were 75% off! I think I may go back and get some more ornaments for our tree. It was kind of sparsely decorated this year. Apparently the years with all these boys have found more than a few of our ornaments as casualties. I also bought some silver ribbon. I used 4 layers of cardboard cut out to a 16" circle and it's about 3 " wide. I only looked at the pictures on their blog once and then just made it how I wanted it. It would have been easier if all the balls had been the same size, if the wreath had been more like 2" wide, and if I wasn't such a perfectionist. ;) Then I covered them with white duct tape that Beaver got for Christmas, then covered it again with 3" strips of white fabric that used to be a tablecloth.
So......
$2.33 for gray yarn
$2.33 for blue yarn
$1.99 for ornaments (which I still have about 20 left)
$.61 for silver ribbon
And the grand total is...
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$7.26 for a super cute 18" Winter Wreath!
Next week I'm making something like this:
A friend of mine in Cali did this a few years ago with all her kiddos coming home outfits. I've been "going to" do this since then. *sigh* They'll be a work in progress and all I'll be making next week is the actual shadow boxes.....6 of them. Maybe I'll even do one for Handy Man and myself one day. Hmmmmm........
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