I loved the rustic look of this wreath

from the first time I saw it over on

A Beautiful Mess

[SUCH a fun blog - a magazine of ideas, really!]

SO I knew I wanted to make one of my own.

My sweetie cut the ZERO out for me from wood left-over from another project -- 

[I think they used heavy-duty cardbaord --[

Then I gathered sticks from the yard - 

AND made about 24 little pompoms with a large meat fork -

All of this was setting at the house waiting for me for a couple of weeks 

[DUE TO WORK TRAVEL - ARGH]

So -- I knew it would be a great project to take camping with us -

I packed up the trusty high-powered glue gun, 

along with extra yarn [and the fork] in case I needed more 

and put it all in the RV with the ZERO and the gathered sticks...

 

Then late one afternoon I set to work on the table just outside our door - 

I started with the bigger sticks  on the four right angles and 

added shorter and smaller sticks to fill in...

I had to gather more twigs from around our campsite

[neat!]

 

Then I glued on the pom poms to cover the ends - 

I think it looks kind of like cotton, do you?

This is it - hanging near the RV door - 

[OF COURSE we took it down before we traveled - ha.]

 

And this is theirs - 

You can find complete instructions at the link at the top of this post --

I love how mine turned out - 

even if it doesn't look just like theirs -

It's a fun, easy to do, wreath for the fall!