I found Dory
(sea this wreath and make it, easy)
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Reduce does not mean reduce your collection of cool toys though.
I got sucked into Yard Sale Gravity and found a straw wreath with "Deco Mesh" and some cheesy Easter ornaments. It happened to be a nice shade of oceanic turquoise/aqua, so after ditching the faded plastic eggs and worn out daffodils I had the base for...
...something.
I got some more of the U shaped pins that you use to staple stuff into a straw wreath. They're about two inches long and easy to push into the straw. Although gloves or a thimble could be helpful.
I added tule (in two colors and patterns) and one of those shower scrubbies that, when unravelled, is a nice long stretch of turquoise netting.
I wrapped the straw with the shimmery tule (to hide the straw). Then I looked at the wreath and thought of it like a compass rose: N, E, S, W. I found the center of the deco mesh and pinned it at S. Then I found the center of the one side and pinned that at E, and the center of the other side at W. That way I had divided my limited amount of mesh evenly around the wreath. The cool thing about mesh and pins and straw is that you can adjust as you go along, unpinning and repinning when it doesn't quite look right. You kind of scrunch up the mesh until it looks like you want and squash a pin into it.
I worked the scrubbie mesh, and the tule in by starting at N and just working around the circle of the wreath. I did not wrap any of the decorative meshes around the back of the wreath, just worked them back and forth across the front and sides. The mesh and tule can be scrunched and worked in various patterns to be fluffy and floral or wavy and oceanic.
I added fake starfish and sand dollars (AC Moore), tying them on with fishing line. Hot glue will let go in hot or cold conditions. I know this because I tried to decorate an underwater Christmas tree in a quarry in December (about 39 1/2 degrees) with stuff held together with hot glue. It promptly fell apart. E6000 on the other hand will glue anything to anything and hold up under tougher conditions. It is stinkier than fishing line.
The toys were variously tied with fishing line or pinned with the floral pins. A large needle helps guide the line through the mesh and wreath.
Finally, I have a home for all those Nemo and Dory toys I found at that other yard sale...
I got sucked into Yard Sale Gravity and found a straw wreath with "Deco Mesh" and some cheesy Easter ornaments. It happened to be a nice shade of oceanic turquoise/aqua, so after ditching the faded plastic eggs and worn out daffodils I had the base for...
...something.
I got some more of the U shaped pins that you use to staple stuff into a straw wreath. They're about two inches long and easy to push into the straw. Although gloves or a thimble could be helpful.
I added tule (in two colors and patterns) and one of those shower scrubbies that, when unravelled, is a nice long stretch of turquoise netting.
I wrapped the straw with the shimmery tule (to hide the straw). Then I looked at the wreath and thought of it like a compass rose: N, E, S, W. I found the center of the deco mesh and pinned it at S. Then I found the center of the one side and pinned that at E, and the center of the other side at W. That way I had divided my limited amount of mesh evenly around the wreath. The cool thing about mesh and pins and straw is that you can adjust as you go along, unpinning and repinning when it doesn't quite look right. You kind of scrunch up the mesh until it looks like you want and squash a pin into it.
I worked the scrubbie mesh, and the tule in by starting at N and just working around the circle of the wreath. I did not wrap any of the decorative meshes around the back of the wreath, just worked them back and forth across the front and sides. The mesh and tule can be scrunched and worked in various patterns to be fluffy and floral or wavy and oceanic.
I added fake starfish and sand dollars (AC Moore), tying them on with fishing line. Hot glue will let go in hot or cold conditions. I know this because I tried to decorate an underwater Christmas tree in a quarry in December (about 39 1/2 degrees) with stuff held together with hot glue. It promptly fell apart. E6000 on the other hand will glue anything to anything and hold up under tougher conditions. It is stinkier than fishing line.
The toys were variously tied with fishing line or pinned with the floral pins. A large needle helps guide the line through the mesh and wreath.
Finally, I have a home for all those Nemo and Dory toys I found at that other yard sale...