Well this house is finally coming together! For those of you that are new here – we sold our house last October, downsized and are living in a rental. I have my fireplace mantel to share with you today. I made a really lovely winter pom pom wreath and my husband made me a reclaimed wood, I guess you could call it wall art? Take a look!
I planned on putting it in the living room above the fireplace so I used white and gray yarn because the room is white, gray, aqua and red.
My husband made me this wood wall art piece. Originally he was going to use wood from pallets but we couldn’t find any pallets! So he bought some thin privacy fence pickets and used those instead. I think he spent around $10 and we still have the ends of the pickets that we can use for another project.
We needed to find a way to cover up this TV mount in a way that would let me hang stuff off it or have it be the backdrop that wasn’t permanent. So we came up with the idea of that wood piece!
Here’s how I made the wreath. This wreath is so easy anyone could do it! It is time consuming depending on the size of your wreath form. Mine is rather large so even my husband helped make pom poms!
DIY Pom Pom Wreath
Materials:
Wreath form (mine is styrofoam, straw would also be easy to work with but leave the plastic on)
Several skein of yarn (how many depends on your wreath size)
hot glue gun (push pins or floral pins if you didn’t want to glue your pom poms)
Directions:
1. I had to spray paint my wreath form because the only one I had was green and I used light colored yarn. If I had a straw wreath form I wouldn’t have bothered. So depending on the color combination of pom poms you would like to use, you may have to cover your wreath form with some ribbon, strips of drop cloth, burlap etc. The pom poms are very close together so it really just depends on your color scheme. Basically, you don’t want the color of the wreath form to show through.
2. Make your pom poms. There are many ways to make these. You can use a pom pom maker or you can use another method. Here’s a link to a post where I show how to make pom poms by using a cardboard template.
3. After you make a million pom poms…you can start gluing or pinning them to your wreath form. I did the top first (the part that faces out), then I did the inside of the ring and then I did the outside of the ring last.
4. Glue and fluff your pom poms as you go until your wreath is covered.
It has been soooo very cold here in Atlanta this year. But I’m trying to embrace winter!
This yarn wreath with the sweater covered lampshade that I made, the sweater pillows I have scattered around, lots of woolly throws and some other accessories I’ve used…all those things have added up to one cozy living room!
What a cute idea! Thanks for sharing.
It’s POOF-ectly adorable, Manuela. So inexpensive and so awesome. The roaring fire in the fireplace is the icing on the cake!
Hugs and happy week,
Kelley~
How cute! A fun rainy day thing to make with all the leftover yarn. Lots of that around my house. 🙂
Hugs from Holland,
Heidi
Love that fluffy wreath with the wood piece as a backdrop! Enjoy your day dear Manuela, HUGS!
Love the wood piece, great idea. I live in a rental and we are limited as to what we can do in one. Your wreath is perfect for the cold rainy winter we are having here in Atlanta.
Linda
I really like your wreath…and that’s a beautiful fireplace in your rental. I am anxious to see more of your new home.
We also moved a little over a yr ago and it is just taking time to get used to it all. We were in the olden house 40 yrs so it was pretty dramatic when we decided to move. I sure am having fun decorating our new place…it is so much newer than our old one and it has a different “flavor” so my decorating is just a shade different…same pieces, just used in different ways. Fun!!
Fun wreath and a great solution to covering up the tv mount.
That’s a great idea for renters! I’d love to see the whole living room, so I’m going to check to see if you have posted them and I missed it.
That is a good idea to hide the TV mount Manuela. I love the pom pom wreath! The colours are really nice and it looks sweet on the board display. The roaring fire looks so cozy too. It’s been a hard winter hasn’t it. Take care. Pam
I love your pom pom wreath, Manuela! A million? Do you have to be accurate with that count? ; ) Love the wood backdrop, too. It was a great way to hide that mount. It looks very cozy around your fireplace!
Thanks Kathy! LOL! Well it felt like a million! I finally had to have my husband help me make some pom poms. His were bigger since we wrapped the yarn around our hands instead of using the cardboard. He is now an expert pom pom maker (not many men could claim the same thing 🙂 )
I’m pretty happy with the fireplace area. I just finally hung curtains in that room which I’ll hopefully show next week. I have to figure out what to do with the wall the couch is on. Maybe a gallery wall? I don’t know….so much stuff is still in boxes!
Like it a lot! From your other posts sounds and looks like you have done a great job making this house a cozy/warm home in a short time.
Super pretty. Love the wreath and that your husband can see your vision!
Your wall art and wreath look so nice over the fireplace. You were so creative to think of something like that to hide the TV bracket!