a merry wreath makeover

Christmas is going to be great this year! Our 4 year old is soooo excited about it and kept begging us to get our tree up. I gave in about 3 days before Thanksgiving.

As I started going through our boxes, bins and bags of decorations, I found some items I just didn't love anymore. One of them was this wreath. Very simple, with an old bow attahced. Yeah I can admit it, it was U.G.L.Y. Time for a wreath makeover. With trying to save money this year, and a mental promise to myself to not buy more decorations, the trick was only using things I already had. Here is the ugly duckling:



After scavenging in my bins, I came across this sign I got on clearance last year after Christmas.


The colors were fun and added to my more whimsical decorating look I had started last year. Now I took the hanging wire off and attached the sign to my wreath using twist ties. Then I scavenged some more and found little glass ornaments that were the same fun colors as the sign. I attached these to the wreath and viola, the ugly duckling is a swan, or at least not ugly anymore!

It needed some fluffing, and could probably use some more ornaments, but I'm happy with it so I called it done, hung it on my door and moved on.

Gotta love a free wreath makeover!