Christmas wreath with countdown

This week hasn't been off to the best start. When it rains it pours but I am determined to not let this get me down! It's the best time of the year and I am going to enjoy every second of it.   Saturday night I made spaghetti and Matthew took a break from studying and came over for dinner and a Christmas movie. Matthew, food and Christmas movie...three of my favorite things :) After the movie Matthew went back to his apartment to study for the rest of the night and I was feeling crafty so I made a Christmas wreath for our front door, finally!   I have been looking on Pinterest for ideas and sadly I still can't get how to make the cute burlap ones or deco mesh. The last time I tried I about chucked it out the window a few times. I will learn how to make it though, maybe a goal for 2014? Anyways, I picked up some tulle at Wal-Mart. A roll of red, a roll of white and a roll of green. They were cheaper there than at Hobby Lobby where I had looked previously so I was pretty happy about that! I didn't know what I was going to do with the tulle or how I was going to apply it to the wreath but I just started tying it and after doing a few it was turning out pretty cute!!

I just cut pieces long enough to tie, some were longer than others but that's okay I trimmed it after so they were all pretty even.

WARNING: Glitter will get EVERYWHERE. Have vacuum on stand by!!

This is a little time consuming but I was watching a Christmas movie and talking with friends so it didn't seem too long.

I didn't like the way the inside looked so I looked for something to hang in the middle. My roommate suggested hanging a stocking in the middle but I remembered I had bought a little chalkboard Christmas countdown at Target in their famous dollar section and put it in the middle

and it was PERFECT I tell ya!!

 

 

I love the way it turned out and fully plan on using it next year! I might even make my mom one for Christmas as well :) I made this wreath for about $12. I don't know about y'all but I'm not about to spend much more than that for a wreath that gets to hang up for about a month. BOOM. There are 15 days until Christmas now, these pictures were taken yesterday!   Linking up with Michaela and Cassie today!

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Christmas wreath with countdown