More Glitter than a Strip Club

So my New Year's Mantle and Tablescape has been up for a while now, and I dunno if you noticed or not but the colors I picked for them were aqua and copper. Love that combination. Really I love anything with copper. I love the bright orangey-tone to it. Orange makes me happy. H-A-PP-Y! So now we know why I have so much copper/orange in my decorating.

I used to have a winter wreath. It was from Target and it did not even last two winters before we had to trash it. Sadness. So I had a couple of old Christmas wreaths laying around that I knew I could recycle. So here's my first crafty post of 2011!

I took off all the picks and saved the ones I could. Then the wreaths took a trip to my painting plywood out in the garage and got a couple of sloppy coats of blossom white spray paint. I didn't do a terrific job because I wanted the wreaths to look frosted. After they dried, I brought them back inside and got to work on the fun part.

Michael's had all of their Christmas picks and floral on 60-75% clearance a few weeks ago, so I snatched up the glittery materials I needed. Yay for saving $$$. So I cut everything but the large copper picks apart. Then I just hot glued everything in. I am loving the finished product.

 

Oh you noticed that I said I had a couple of wreaths? Well the original plan was to have two wreaths on the door. One hanging from the other, the only problem with this plan was that my wreaths were too big and the 2nd wreath ended up hanging right about door knob level. So I gave the second wreath to my mom. :)

The best quote came from this project as well. We all know that glitter sheds {a lot} and as I was busily trying to clean it all up before the hubs noticed just how much {more} glitter I had added to the already glitterfied kitchen.

Well he noticed, and as he watched me repeatedly clean the island trying to rid it of all the glitter that had shed from these wreaths he said, "This room has more glitter than a strip club, you know that right?"

To which I just look at him {probably covered in head to toe in glitter} and gave him the best stink eye I could muster just grimaced at him. Then I returned to the mop, vacuum and wet cloth. I am still finding glitter in the kitchen.....a full week after I got this project done. le sigh. I will win this glitter war eventually. Hopefully. Because the hubs asked if we could have a glitter-free winter next year, and well, I just laughed at him. :) Maybe for Valentine's Day I'll go glitter free. Maybe.

I hope you guys have a terrifically glittery day today!



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