Arts & Crafts



Coffee Filter Wreath



     I have a serious Pinterest addiction.  It's amazing how creative people can be, and while I've never been overly creative, I've always wanted to be, and now Pinterest has given me the opportunity to copy other people's creativity and pass it off as my own!  My husband and I have not been married very long, but I have been trying to make our little home feel "homey."  As a student, I do not have the budget to go out and buy new furniture or fancy art for our walls, but I am fortunate enough to be married to a carpenter--a very talented carpenter.  We love doing projects, and our latest passion has been finding old furniture at garage sales, thrift stores, etc. for him to work his magic on!  He has the ability to take any old piece of wood and transform it into a beautiful, very expensive-looking piece!  As I tend to make a mess of everything (as in there is more stain or paint on me than on the the project), I mostly "ooooohhhh" and "ahhhhhhh" over his projects while I stick to the ones involving rubber cement and hot glue.  I was pretty proud of how my first "Pinterest project" came out.  I saw somebody had made a wreath out of coffee filters.  At first it did sound slightly tacky, but it looks beautiful!  I got several packs of coffee filters, a bare bones wreath, tea bags, and coffee all at the Dollar Tree (seriously--this was a $4 project!).  I then dyed half my filters in tea and half in coffee and let them dry all on top of each other.  Then one by one, I scrunched up my filters and hot glued them onto the wreath.  I even did one for my mom after I finished mine--and with hers, I dyed several filters pink (using red food coloring) and let them dry on top of the wet tea/coffee stained ones.  It worked better than I'd hoped giving the pink a very antiqued look.  Several blisters later, I had a new wreath for my door and one in the mail on its way to my mom's door!  Even my husband was impressed with how it looked (although he is probably not the most objective judge).