October 16, 2010I instigated a girls' afternoon of Halloween craftiness today. My mom, sister, and sister-in-law all got together to make candy corn wreaths. Don't get any ideas that any of us are that crafty. In fact, for the longest time Jeff teased me about my lack of craftiness and signed me up for a Relief Society Super Saturday (basically an all-day craft party with the ladies at church) without my knowing one year. And he made me go. I broke my project the moment I walked in the door... good thing for hot glue.
But I had seen these super cute candy corn wreaths on this blog, who had seen them in the Woman's Day magazine. I figured if it was on a thrifty home decor blog it couldn't be THAT expensive or THAT hard to do. Uh... had I known how much Styrofoam cost or the near fight I had with my sister over who got to make the rectangle wreath vs. the circle one (not to mention who got the black ribbon vs. the orange ribbon), I might have rethought this plan. But I'm glad I don't craft often enough to know how much things really cost... or how long it takes to hot glue about 3,000 candy corns on a wreath because was totally worth it to spend all day with some fabulous women in my life! Now if we could just convince the men in our lives that these are NOT edible advent wreaths!
Cute! I'd totally make one, except I know I'd eat all the corns before they made it onto the frame.
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