Mother’s Day Twine Wreath

Happy belated Mother’s Day to all of the moms out there!  I happen to have the most amazing, wonderful, thoughtful, caring, supportive, beautiful, and hilarious mother in the whole wide world!The first picture is of us in December 1987 and the other is from this past summer!  Even though I can never get any gift that is enough to express how much I love and need her, I wanted to give her a little something for Mother’s Day anyway.

My mom is in the process of decorating her house for spring & summer with punches of yellow and green (and just a few hints of red!).  Since these are new colors for her, I figured she would be in need of a new wreath for her front door.The concept was super easy and just took a bit of patience to carry out.  I started out with a Styrofoam wreath, a spool of twine, and a few silk flowers.I started by tying the twine around the Styrofoam and then wrapping the twine tightly around the wreath until the Styrofoam was completely covered. This took me about an our and a half so keep a glue gun handy if you plan on taking any breaks (just a dot of hot glue and a little pressure will keep the twine in place if you need to put it down)!Once you are happy with the coverage, run out of twine, or feel like your arms are going to fall off, tie off the end of the twine.  You are done with the hard part!  Using a glue gun (and perhaps a few pins/small nails if your flowers need the extra support), apply some silk flowers to the wreath.  I even got super fancy with it (wild woman, I know) and added ribbon for more color.I told you the concept was easy and I couldn’t be happier about how it turned out!  And now my mom has a handmade wreath for her front door all season long (as long as it survived the mail…).

Since I couldn’t spoil the surprise before she opened the gift, I didn’t want to mention my new blogging gig until now (because she is my biggest fan and would have definitely seen it. Fun fact: my mom was the first to find Our Cozy Cubbyhole on Facebook before I even had the blog designed!  Haha no idea how she did it…). But now I can proudly say that I have been asked to be a contributing blogger for the radio station WSRK (and its affiliated stations) in Oneonta, NY, near where I grew up/went to college.

So check out my first two posts over there! Thanks all!
http://wsrkfm.com/new-wsrk-blogger-erika/
http://wsrkfm.com/last-minute-mothers-day-gifts-for-the-diy-inclined/

P.S. You will also notice a little blog makeover. I am changing things up a little at a time and this weekend’s project was font. :)