Flashback Friday -- A Color Story

Featuring my acorn wreath of many colors...

I made my wreath in the Fall of 2010.  It was our first autumn in St. Louis and when I saw the hundreds and hundreds of acorns lying around our backyard, I knew I needed to make this wreath that I had seen in a tutorial on Dana Made It. Hahaha.  I picked up a straw wreath form at Michael's or JoAnn's {I really can't remember which, and I know they have them at both -- and they're probably available at a Wal-mart, too, for that matter} and I lovingly hot-glued at least a hundred of those acorns onto the wreath over the course of a couple of nights while watching TV after the kids were in bed.  

By the time I was done, I had burned myself a few good times, but the finished product was even better than I envisioned!  I promptly spray painted it the first of many colors and hung it on our door.  Since that first Fall, it's seen at least a dozen other colors and -- if possible -- I love it even more now than I did when I first made it.  Here, for your viewing pleasure, is a sampling of its color story.

{And if any of you attempt to make one yourself, please take note that you have to do something to the acorns to keep maggots from sprouting in them.  I learned that the hard way.  You can either bake them at a low temperature to kill anything inside or freeze them.  Since my wreath was already glued together and spray-painted when I first saw a tiny little critter eating its way through an acorn, I opted for the freezer route and just stuck the whole entire thing in a bag then shoved it in our basement freezer for a couple of days to make sure everything was good to go.  Learn from my mistakes!}

I pretty much only ever use Krylon's spray paint in a gloss finish for the wreath. 

 "Pumpkin Orange" -- one of my faves.

 "Bauhaus Gold" -- this isn't the greatest picture to showcase the color, but I really love this one as well.

 "Leather Brown"

"Banner Red"

"Ivy Leaf" -- another of my all-time faves.

"Gum Drop"

and "Blue Ocean Breeze" -- another fave.  I think I need to get some more of this color to change up the color for May.

 I thought I had more pictures of other colors I've used, but apparently I don't take pictures of each and every change.  Haha.  Oh well!  Hopefully the above colors are enough to inspire you.  :)  Have a happy weekend!