Wood Shim Wreath Project Done

     I have been wanting to make a wood shim wreath for almost three years.  I bought the wreath forms back in 2020.  I wanted this to be a joint project doing it with my daughter but that never happened so I made one by myself.  I found the instructions on pinterest.  Here is a link to the website that pops up for me that was the most helpful with list of materials and step by step instructions.  

     The pictures of pinterest show the wood shims stained a dark color and that's how I wanted to make both of my wreaths, but when I asked dear daughter if she wanted her shims stained she said no.  She wanted a white wash on the shims.  The shims are a very yellow wood and I told her that a white wash might not look that great on the yellow wood so we decided to paint them completely white.  I painted the back, front and sides of each of the 27 shims I used and the wreath form with white acrylic paint.  You can  use any acrylic paint.  

   Then I glued the shims to the wreath form with E6000.  It took me several days to finish this because I had to wait for the paint to dry and on the last day when I was gluing the shims to the wreath form I had to wait for the glue to dry on the first set of shims before I could add more.  It was a process.  I can't remember how much I paid for my wreath forms in 2020 but I bought 6 packs of shims for the two wreaths at $1.58 a pack at home depot.  I bought extra shims and I'm glad I did because some had knot holes in them and some were very rough and I didn't want to use them so I weeded them out of the project shims.  The acrylic paint cost me $2.00 at walmart.   I'm glad this wreath is done.  I'm making one more for me with stained shims.  I will start that project next week.

   I finished knitting my gray earwarmer and I'm working on a dark blue one now.  

   One other thing that I have been wanting to make is a trivet using half wooden beads and felt.  I saw this on a youtube video.  Here is a link to the entire video:  Liz Fenwick DIY  The instructions for this trivet start at minute 35:10 of the video.  The trivet I made used 66 half wood beads and I glued them with E6000.  I made three of these for dear daughter.  A pack of 300 half wooden beads cost me $12.99 on Amazon and I bought a yard of thick dark gray felt at Hobby Lobby for $6.99.  The felt I bought was very wide.  It's a lot of felt.  This is a very easy project and you can glue 3 of these in about an hour.  Wait for them to dry and trim the felt.  

    Here is a picture of one I glued before I trimed the felt.