Owl Love You Forever

Remember this skill that I learned the other day? Don’t be jealous of how even and beautiful my stitches were. We can’t all be perfect. Ha!

Anyway, I was stitching felt letters to go on a Valentine wreath! I’ve been wanting some kind of wreath for our house. I mean, “wreath” practically shouts “hello!  This is a house where the wife totally has it going on.”  Think June Cleaver or the Proverbs 31 woman.  I’m sure both of them had a wreath on their front door.

To begin my wreath quest I headed to my local thrift store (Goodwill, of course) and picked up some items that had seen better days.

A large knit sweater and something that resembled a wreath.  I think that glob of ribbon was supposed to be a bow.  June Cleaver would not have been proud.

After bringing home these two unwanted items, I grabbed some felt, hot glue, and a notepad to sketch out my ideas.

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Then after a bit of trial and error, this is what I came up with!

My very own love inspired wreath!

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Don’t look too closely at the stitches.  It’s the thought that counts, right?

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And here’s the owl couple.  The girl one has a ruffly belly and the boy one has a manly striped belly.  Hmm.  That’s a weird sentence.

I made their wings heart-shaped and tried my best to get them to look adoringly at each other.  I’m not sure if I succeeded with that.  I kind of think they look a bit unsure of each other.  Oh well.

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Then I knit a little bow wreath hanger to top it all off.

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Well, there it is!  I recently read an article on Curbly about showing your home some Valentines love.  It was a really sweet idea.  So home, Happy Love Day!  You’re a good home.

If any of you are interested, I’ll post later about how I made it.  It would be a really fun craft all year around!

Oh, and I linked it up to the Project ReStyle group.  Project ReStyle is all about taking unwanted items and creating lovely new things from them!

Click on the button to find out more about this project.  And be sure to check out the Flicker group – you’ll get enough inspiration to last for days!

~Whitney