A little help from Martha

My friend Addie and I wanted a wreath for our doors that could be used in the fall and even a little after Christmas. Martha Stewart to the rescue!!

I found this in Martha Stewart Living and we got together to do this fun wreath. It was so much fun to talk while we were doing it and T and L had fun playing!!

Tools and Materials
Hot-glue gun (with lots of glue sticks)
2 bags (one pound each) walnuts in the shell
24-inch flat wooden wreath form
1 bag (1 pound) each almonds, hazelnuts, and pecans in the shell
Wide ribbon

The How-To
Hot glue walnuts to a 5-inch-long segment of 1 side of wreath form, varying direction of nuts.

Fill spaces between walnuts with the other nuts, hot-gluing them to the form and the walnuts as you work.

Repeat, working in sections, to cover the wreath form completlely. Be sure to adhere nuts to inner and outer edges of wreath form to conceal it entirely.

Tie ribbon around wreath.

One thing I would add (thanks to the nice, helpful lady at Hobby Lobby) would be to spray the wreath with matte acrylic spray when you are finished so animals will not be interested in it!!

My finished product



We could only find the nuts in a mixed bag of walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts it was a large bag though and did both of our wreaths. The bag was $10.
I had lots of pecans in the shell we picked up last year and never used so we mainly used pecans on our wreaths since they were free!!!
We found the wreath forms and Michael's and had 40% off coupons for them. (don't remember price)
We did have to buy more glue sticks and matte acrylic spray used 40% off coupons for both at Hobby Lobby. (don't remember price)
We used ribbon we already hade.

My estimate is that we each had about $10 in this project!! I thought that was good for a wreath to hang on the front door!!