Thriifty Decor Chick: coffee filters

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="coffee filter craft, coffee filters, coffee filter wreath, wreath" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzNM_zJHKDj1Ij_-bBuEBf3glcCRIngzibJIMPA_Qt2i0-0UOu6QVPyKyAAKsBC6Pt7ln8XiBbsmpB896Jh6104CQbaWmCu77VRCsFNYSuhXBeYdlFOHkG26y4pqZ4Jqn2LCWBf7Vvczg/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+2+7.jpg" title="" width="425" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I learned a couple of things this weekend: <i>I learned not to spit into the wind, and not to pull the mask on the lone ranger... </i>But the main thing I learned was that it takes a reeeealy loooong time to make a coffee filter wreath. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Like ~ A. Really. Long. Time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, if you have episodes of Nashville and Chicago PD that you need to catch up on, and it's raining, it's something to do. And the silver lining  ~ you don't feel like a lazy slug, sitting around all Sunday watching TV. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here's what you need:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><ul><li>Wire wreath</li><li>Burlap, or any fabric</li><li>Hot Glue Gun</li><li>Hot Glue Sticks</li><li>A pencil</li><li>Coffee Filters (I bought them in brown, 400 of them)</li><li>Coffee (<i>or wine, I don't judge</i>) </li></ul><div>You could use any circle form - I happened to have this wire "wreath", so I covered it in burlap, to give the coffee filters something to stick to. I simply wrapped it, and glued it in place. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3B3wejJ0oxvWPRQuIntfotjn6VxP4igKyIDaEWFVKGIG4bch-3a2l9qR9qWYR1Prc6hAITP_0AMIsoebbUWxeB5zQmMB3L8eP3YW9BZTmZk1FDQ9Xq71aEg7g0flFNzfQSbgmRckvseo/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="coffee filter craft, coffee filters, coffee filter wreath, wreath" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3B3wejJ0oxvWPRQuIntfotjn6VxP4igKyIDaEWFVKGIG4bch-3a2l9qR9qWYR1Prc6hAITP_0AMIsoebbUWxeB5zQmMB3L8eP3YW9BZTmZk1FDQ9Xq71aEg7g0flFNzfQSbgmRckvseo/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+1.jpg" title="" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can see that it doesn't matter how it looks at this point, the fabric won't show through, at all. <i>Ooooh, look, wine is on sale! </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEagwB2xOqETkiO74hMP3Gs8Na4QIeLKUSswBRege5Rk7_WPPCi4-AbGRzkW8wvbhF2qyl2ZNQ13kJ-K_V-l5rUwSSKq2y5xfEX9qnBiYsAIQdZlnDOjU4dhMcmMUeMOY2mduiC3QdR2w/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="coffee filter craft, coffee filters, coffee filter wreath, wreath" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEagwB2xOqETkiO74hMP3Gs8Na4QIeLKUSswBRege5Rk7_WPPCi4-AbGRzkW8wvbhF2qyl2ZNQ13kJ-K_V-l5rUwSSKq2y5xfEX9qnBiYsAIQdZlnDOjU4dhMcmMUeMOY2mduiC3QdR2w/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+2.jpg" title="" width="554" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Take a coffee filter and wrap it around the eraser end of the pencil. <i>(Note I was full of vim and vigor going into this project! So easy, and so fun!)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSlnk770B9I1TtEixc6q9EwVwPf7oS_AsjH0wt9FAo20J1YvPFEP3eCbjxgKPssUQo-YqHvOkeYKxdLoGczMvikcDW6ZTm6X8UIc57S3R28z5e_8sZsS-1jRRUD5gAs0tHqqAY6MJqZI/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="coffee filter craft, coffee filters, coffee filter wreath, wreath" border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSSlnk770B9I1TtEixc6q9EwVwPf7oS_AsjH0wt9FAo20J1YvPFEP3eCbjxgKPssUQo-YqHvOkeYKxdLoGczMvikcDW6ZTm6X8UIc57S3R28z5e_8sZsS-1jRRUD5gAs0tHqqAY6MJqZI/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+3.jpg" title="" width="336" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Put a tiny dab of glue on the end of the coffee filter and place it on the wreath, like so:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbBQDsqz3eG6K8ZTDxzBL5FSLd2muCyjWGpmZe9fjDj14R5XrX5rrGb6gq-ffbAaz10tltThFKIGSdBqz7vvHaTtnKl2dSPCLsqKuRfcOW8j0MF7NT2nGVP3NljeuY8uKTBrXBAEZyb4/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="coffee filter craft, coffee filters, coffee filter wreath, wreath" border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYbBQDsqz3eG6K8ZTDxzBL5FSLd2muCyjWGpmZe9fjDj14R5XrX5rrGb6gq-ffbAaz10tltThFKIGSdBqz7vvHaTtnKl2dSPCLsqKuRfcOW8j0MF7NT2nGVP3NljeuY8uKTBrXBAEZyb4/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+5.jpg" title="" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Continue doing this, placing them about 1/4" apart. After the first couple of hours, you will get to about this stage:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64H6XMmhXiXw5v-uwpCgsMcUHW-AHf6QvrcowbqI_9fGHQOS9IOlt_DesfoBfZB2Bt_lLf04yVtpx0PsVU7f0M6RsJkpStgD6lqfxIi4-MkI5s4v08JDogHl-CL7801NbB6av-Ooq0VM/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="coffee filter craft, coffee filters, coffee filter wreath, wreath" border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64H6XMmhXiXw5v-uwpCgsMcUHW-AHf6QvrcowbqI_9fGHQOS9IOlt_DesfoBfZB2Bt_lLf04yVtpx0PsVU7f0M6RsJkpStgD6lqfxIi4-MkI5s4v08JDogHl-CL7801NbB6av-Ooq0VM/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+6.jpg" title="" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At which time, you carry on for 40 more days and 40 more nights. (<i>I'm starting to run low on vim and vigor after the first couple of hours, and really needed the aforementioned coffee, or wine. Still easy, but not feeling the "fun" anymore!) </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As the wreath starts to take shape, you can use the pencil to stick the coffee filters down in and fill in any holes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>(Joking aside, I used about 300 coffee filters and the whole coffee filter gluing took me 4 hours.)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Once I felt most of the holes had been filled in, and had frankly, had enough of gluing coffee filters, I called it a day! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To hang, I tied it to an old frame, using jute. I toyed with the idea of using ribbon, but I deciced that I prefer the simple look. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Waddaya think? Cute, or does it look like a giant doughnut? Maybe everything looks like a giant doughnut with all of this talk of coffee. :)</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzNM_zJHKDj1Ij_-bBuEBf3glcCRIngzibJIMPA_Qt2i0-0UOu6QVPyKyAAKsBC6Pt7ln8XiBbsmpB896Jh6104CQbaWmCu77VRCsFNYSuhXBeYdlFOHkG26y4pqZ4Jqn2LCWBf7Vvczg/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+2+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="coffee filter craft, coffee filters, coffee filter wreath, wreath" border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzNM_zJHKDj1Ij_-bBuEBf3glcCRIngzibJIMPA_Qt2i0-0UOu6QVPyKyAAKsBC6Pt7ln8XiBbsmpB896Jh6104CQbaWmCu77VRCsFNYSuhXBeYdlFOHkG26y4pqZ4Jqn2LCWBf7Vvczg/s1600/coffee+filter+wreath+2+7.jpg" title="" width="424" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 15.1999998092651px; line-height: 17.2479991912842px; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: orange;"><b>Please don't forget to subscribe to my newsletter! 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I learned a couple of things this weekend: I learned not to spit into the wind, and not to pull the mask on the lone ranger... But the main...

Coffee Filter Wreath (Tutorial)

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