Hula hoop ornament wreaths
Have you seen all the ornament wreaths everybody’s doing? I think they are so pretty and festive.
I have been dying to make two for our front doors. But the standard size would be too small because our doors are large. I would need at least a 30″ foam and those aren’t cheap and easy to find.
Then I saw Kate’s from Centsational Girl tutorial on how she made her beautiful ornament garland. I just love her style and the colors of her mantle.
And then an idea came to me. I could make an ornament wreath as big as I wanted by stringing them on to wire like she did for her ornament garland.
I already had the ornaments on hand, and using Kate’s tutorial I made an ornament garland until I had a enough to form a 30″ circle. {Kate’s tutorial on how to string the ornaments was super easy, I think by doing it this way rather than gluing them on individually saved me a ton of time}. But the ornament garland wasn’t stable enough to keep a circle shape. It needed something behind it. So I sat and stared at it for awhile. Anybody else do this when you get stuck? And then my husband walked into to the room. All I can say is, thank God I married an inventor. He asked what I was doing with the garland and I told him my dilema, and he instantly said, why not use hula hoops? Woohoo! Problem solved. Love that guy. Off to Walmart I went and picked up four $5 kid size hula hoops {got 4 just to be safe which turned out to be a life saver in the end}.
