Brown Bag Wreath

This awesome wreath I was first introduced to on Make Happy. I saw it and knew I needed to make it. But that was over a year ago. I even bought an 1.25 inch scalloped hole punch specifically for this (it's come in handy for lots of other things). But when I took down my Christmas wreath our poor little door looked so bare. I knew the brown paper bag wreath had finally moved up on the priority list. It was time to make it.

I started with a pretty thick brown bag and then moved to what else I had on hand-lunch bags. After starting to put them on the wreath I realized that they weren't quite the same color of brown. So I tried to vary them both through the whole thing to add a little depth. Anyway, a little picture tutorial below. Or you can go to the original in depth tutorial by MaryJanes and Galoshes.

Have a great Wednesday!!

snowflakes recycled style

The little buddy loves to paint! (That boy is after his own mother's heart). But, we are starting to really acrue a large number of paintings. The question is: what to do with all the paintings? Of course we have some hung up, but there are so many. With heavy heart I had finally decided to throw away some of them. But wait! I had the brilliant idea to turn some of them into snowflakes first. The paper is a little thick so it is hard cutting, but it's fun to have them white on one side and all colorful on the other. Plus, the variety of options with snowflakes makes me giddy. Oh how I love cutting out snowflakes!!!