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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Grinch Wreath

I got the opportunity to decorate the Christmas Wreath for my work. I guess every year at the hospital they have all the different departments decorate a small tree and a wreath to go up for auction. All the proceeds go toward The Auxillary...they use the money during the year for random things around the hospital, to make it a better place.

So, I volunteered to decorate the wreath...I'm too poor to do very many crafty projects, so I saw this as a great oppurtunity to give in to my crafting bug. Once I got the funds donated for the wreath, I got to decorating! I decided to go with a Grinch theme. I really love the part of the movie where his heart grows three sizes. So, that's what I went with. I used this adorable quote.

To make this sign, I just ModPodged the some cute scrapbook paper to the entire board. I covered it in a layer of ModPodge, and then I ModPodged all the letters on and put yet another layer on top of all that!

I did the same thing with these hearts...scrapbook paper and ModPodge.
 Then I glued them all together to show his heart growing three times.
I looked all over for the perfect grinch...I wanted a happy looking one (which, apparently, is not that easy to find). I finally found this cute little guy at Barnes and Noble. I really had a hard time letting him go...
Then I got some cute, Suess looking ornaments and I attached them using sparkly, glittery, Christmas-y pipe cleaner. I twisted the pipe cleaner all up to make it look even more Suess-like.
My awesome co-worker found some green lights to put on the wreath, and I think it added the perfect touch! I really had a hard time letting it go...I wanted to keep it all for myself.
I really love how it turned out! I still don't know if it sold or not...but I'm secretly hoping it didn't, so I can take it back for myself! :)

Merry Christmas!