Pinterest Party!!

Amber from Tales from the Blystone Cottage texted me one day and said we needed to get together for a Pinterest Party. Chris was hoping that meant that all us girls were going to be making recipes from Pinterest and getting together to eat it all! (Also a good idea).
But, we decided since we're not super-crafty with all the great craft resources built up that we would pick a project and share our resources. So we drafted the fabulous Ashley from The Tinch Trio and my buddy Shelly who would be a blogger addict if she'd get one together and we decided to a spring wreath.
Insert fun conversations, brunch food, hot glues guns, fabric swatches, and wa la....an AMAZING Saturday and great first Pinterest party!

Here's our table pre-crafting. Not a mess yet. We've got our grapevine wreaths, covered table, scissors, laptop with other people's great ideas, print-outs of fabric flower tutorials, etc.

We got fabric squares and cut them into strips.

Here's all our pretty choices....Shelly started making hers before some of us were done cutting. Haha. But, we convinced her to cancel her hair appointment to stay and finish her wreath!

We weren't planning on teaching anyone how to follow our example so I don't have any step-by-step instructions but Shelly came up with a great plan to keep our flower level...it's all about having a little stem and twisting the fabric so it stays flat. Our table is getting a little messier, but we were flower making machines!

Ashley finished first! We know Eric would be proud!

Here's Ashley's wreath up close. Isn't it so cute? She also did some layered felt flowers since Shelly had some felt and glued some buttons on...glad I had a bag full of those.

Then Amber finished (those mommies know how to work fast!) next. Super girly wreath to take home to her two men.

Amber's wreath up close. She adorned with some pearls that I had. She also came up with the big circular layered circle that I stole later on.

Shelly's wreath! Love her combo of colors and little accents!

Close up of Shelly's wreath!

And finally, slower mcslowerson (me) finished my wreath. Actually I just had to quit.. See the flowers in the upper right hand corner of this picture? I made SEVERAL that I didn't end up wanting to use.

Kate and her wreath.

Still not on my door yet...now that it's March I need to get on it!