Baby #2 Hospital Wreath

Some of you know, the hospital wreath is quite the big deal here in Birmingham.  Click here to see the one I made last year for Briggs.  This year I decided to go a very different route...

here is what I came up with....

uh, uh (throat clear)...just want to say...notice there is no link to pinterest for this...that's because I came up with it in my own head.  So maybe I'm not a copy-cat for 

every. single. project. I do around here.

Supplies needed: shoe box, scissors, grapevine wreath, fabric, burlap, 

paint and wooden letters (found at hobby lobby)

 

I started by cutting a piece of cardboard from the shoebox, the size I wanted.
Then I laid out a scrap of burlap that covered both sides of the board and laid out the letters to make sure it was what I wanted before I put it together.

Next I sewed the edges of the burlap (with the cardboard inside) 

using light blue thread, with a zig-zag stitch.

I got some fabric I liked...you don't need much..

can just use scraps of some you already have if you want.

I cut it into strips...

Painted the letters brown...

Hot glued it all together..notice my little assistant :)

Last, I wove some light- blue ribbon into the grapevine wreath for another 

"blue" touch and here is the finished product...

Finished product...simple. cute. inexpensive. and
easy to reuse the wreath for something else fun after Parker gets here.