The Pinterest Challenge: Of Wreaths and Scarves

I've mentioned before that I was going to start a blog about all my Pinterest experiments: good and bad. So here is my first Pinterest Challenge blog.

Project #1: I started out with something simple: making a scarf out of old t-shirts. It seemed easy enough... or so I thought.

I followed the instructions to the letter. It seemed fairly simple and straight forward. Everything went well, until I finished it and realized it was nothing more than a whole bunch of strings around my neck. They got tangled, and it looked like a hot mess. Maybe cute co-eds can pull of this look, but if I walked into a room of my friends, I'm fairly certain they would ask me why I had a whole bunch of string tied around my neck. I ended up trying to braid it and make some sort of a necklace out of it- on the principle that I refused to waste a perfectly good t-shirt. I stuck some felt flowers on it, and it turned out decent. Not sure if it's anything that I would EVER wear in public, but hey if nothing else, it'll be a start to Liv's first dress-up box.

FAIL

Project #2: A fall wreath using felt flowers.
I have spent the last several months perfecting the felt flower look and I came to the conclusion that, for me, they just looked a little too cheap. So I decided to use fabric flowers instead (which I learned how to do using THIS tutorial.) I bought a grapevine wreath for $3.50 at Walmart. Used fabric samples, scraps, and ribbon from my craft box, and some pearls from the box- note: craftboxes come in handy. It was cheap and totally easy. I finished it in just a few hours and was so excited to hang it and commence fall (at least in my head). I highly reccomend this if you want a cheap and fairly painless seasonal craft project.

SUCCESS
So there you go, my first Pinterest Challenge. Now, I challenge YOU to hit up Pinterest and blogpost your progress! I'd love to learn something new and be inspired by my friends!

Here are a few links to friends who took the challenge:
Shellie