Craftiness

Like tons of people, I am a Pinterest addict. I was already into crafting, but Pinterest has taken my obsession to a whole new level. The other day while browsing, I found this hydrangea wreath that I loved and decided to make one for our front door! Unfortunately I was too excited to get step by step pictures but here's the finished product with instructions below. Enjoy!

Materials:
1 Straw wreath form
6-9 yds of your favorite ribbon (6 yards will cover up to where the flowers go, 9 will cover the whole wreath)
Wooden letter of your choosing
2 silk hydrangea flower stems (make sure the stem has at least 2 full hydrangea blooms on it)
hot glue gun with glue
coordinating ribbon to hang. (cut to desired length)

Instructions:
1. First put a dot of hot glue on the end of the ribbon where you're going to start wrapping, and glue it to the back of the wreath form.
2. start wrapping the ribbon around the wreath form in wide sections, making sure you completely cover the wreath form, but still going wide enough to avoid wasting ribbon.
3. Periodically put dots of glue to hold the ribbon in place.
4. Once your wreath form is completely wrapped in ribbon (or it's wrapped to the sections where you want) you can begin gluing on the hydrangea blooms. Make sure you look at your placement before you start gluing so that you know where you need to cover.
5. Once your blooms are glued down securely, decide where you'd like to glue on your wooden letter. Use a generous amount of glue on the parts of the letter that will touch the wreath, and press down firmly and hold for a couple of minutes until the glue has dried.
6. measure where you'd like your wreath to sit on your door up to the base of the wreath hanger so you know how much ribbon you need for hanging. Cut ribbon to needed length. Make sure you add enough inches to create a bow.
7. Tie hanging ribbon onto the wreath form, and then an additional bow above that knot. Hang and admire!