1 night, 2 wreaths

after the scarecrow fest on saturday, katie and i went to anderson to buy supplies for a craft. if you know us, you know we love to craft! we both wanted to make a halloween wreath and decided to do the fabric scrap kind of wreath so we headed to hancock fabrics to pick out our fabrics, because we don't have a bunch of fabric scraps and what scraps i do have are still in a box somewhere in the craft room (which is NOTHING but boxes right now and incredibly daunting). while we were there, we saw a lot of pretty fabric way on sale that looked super fall so we bought the supplies to make a thanksgiving wreath too!

then we went to the mecca of crafting- hobby lobby. i could (and have) spend hours and lots of money in that wonderful store. but we held back and only bought some cute little add ons for our wreaths. next door was a dollar tree and we thought we would be able to find some kind of frame for the wreath there. we looked all around and decided to buy glow sticks and tape them together to make the frame. sounds like a good and cheap idea right? wrong. once we got home, we realized how flimsy they would be so we decided to attach wire and tape them all the way around. this took a lot of time and well... here is how "sturdy" they were-

so we took all the fabric off and started over. but this time we weren't sure what we going to use as the frame. then katie said "i think i probably have something in my car that would work". for those of you who don't know katie her car is... um.... less than clean and contains a menagerie of things in it. lo and behold, she had a broken african drum in her trunk that could not be fixed which had 2 perfect and crazy strong rings on it. so that solved half of our problems and we made our halloween wreaths first (since they need to be on our doors NOW!)

so what about 2 more rings to make our thanksgiving wreaths? well what better than taking apart a lampshade that got broken in the move and using the top and bottom rings? problem solved! of course the top ring had the whole peace sign look to it to hold the bulb and shade in place but, katie decided to use it any way. 

so in the end, we each had 2 wreaths! and lots of laughs in between. and a few depressing moments, namely when carolina lost when they should have had 2 seconds left to at least tie the game... but that's another rant entirely. we had a great evening and by 11pm when we finally finished we were pooped. and learned that next time, we will spend the $3 at hobby lobby for the wreath frame.