Avoidance at Its Finest

I had the privilege of going to a workshop. In Florida. By myself. This caused me some serious anxiety. There were so many reasons why this is the case. One being I had only flown four times. Three of those were under two hour flights. The other one was a over 20 years ago.

I don't know about you, but I HATE that anxious feeling. So, a couple days before my flight I was sort of in avoidance mode and trying to forget the anxiety. I should have been packing or cleaning but instead I made a wreath for my front door. I wanted a winter wreath. As I have mentioned before I prefer seasonal decorations to holiday related decorations. I found some variegated yarn that had white, green, and blue and sort of made me think of winter. I had also picked up some snowflake ornaments and bells with snowflake cutouts on them at Dollar Tree.

I wrapped the wreath form with strips of white felt stuff I got from the "extra material" (my mind just blanked and I can't think of the correct term) bin at Walmart. I cut strips, crooked strips at that and used pins to secure the ends. I then wrapped balls from the multi-size ball packages at Dollar Tree with fuzzy yarn (I don't know the real name and the package is home and I am now in Florida). The yarn made great looking "snowballs".

Once I had wrapped all the balls and the wreath I just started putting the balls on the wreath using hot glue. I just sort of put one here then put one there until I liked the look of it. I had some ribbon from decorating our tree a few years ago that was blue with silver snowflakes. PERFECT! I tied it on and hung it on the door. Done and done!

From the Winter Wreath