An Alternative to a Wreath

I love wreaths. Especially when I've made it myself. After adorning the front of my house with three burlap wreaths the other week I put my Christmas berry wreath up on the door. All of the sudden my house looked like it was covered in circles. Is was definitely off. 

Then I remembered a picture I had pinned on Pinterest some time ago.

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I wasn't a big fan of the color ribbon used, so since it's turning into a burlap Christmas around here I thought I might as well keep going with it! :)

Spoiler Alert:

Here's how mine turned out!

It looks much better and breaks up the other three circles hanging on the house.

So here's what I started with:

Burlap cut into strips

Twine

Cinnamon pinecones from Hobby Lobby

Big jingle bells from Hobby Lobby

Hot glue gun

I thought I'd change mine up even more and add a nice jingle to my door with the bells. But after trying it out they just didn't look right or lay right on the door. Oh well!

I glued the burlap onto the top of each pinecone and laid them out on the floor.

This was before I realized that the bells weren't working:)

Once I had a nice bushel of pinecones going I took them to the door to see if I should use more or less. 11 ended up being the perfect amount.

I laid the burlap strips on top of each other nicely in a pile then took it to the door and cut them to about the length I wanted.

I had a Command hook already on my door that I wanted to reuse so I folded over the burlap strips and just pushed the hook into the gaps in the burlap.

Then I tied some twine around it into a bow!

And there you have it! It only took an hour or two. I may have been interrupted a few times by a little boy and little girl though ;)

You'll have to excuse the color of the door. It's actually just primed, we had a new door installed a few weeks ago and we ordered it unfinished to save some cash. Unfortunately it won't be warm enough to paint it until next spring :( But I'm just SUPER happy to have that old green monster from 1950 finally gone. We had no choice but to buy a new one when it stopped closing/locking!! Can you say safety hazard?!

Here it is with some more afters for you!

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