a nutty comparision

O man, I've been busy! I'm getting behind on posting, but I can't seem to find the time! I would promise to try and get better, but let's be serious: this is December and once the holidays are over tax season will start - so no promises or commitments until April 2012 - gah!! 

Remember the nut wreath I made here? It lasted a good couple of weeks and then a few days after Thanksgiving... the squirrels found it... it only lasted 2 more days.

Apparently, the ubber ginormous squirrels in our neighborhood can climb the side of our house, perch on our tiny brick ledge, jump to my wreath and hang on long enough to get a nut or two for dinner.

I guess I don't have to worry about deciding what to do with the wreath now that fall is over, and they were nice enough to wait until after Thanksgiving, but I feel like these empty nut shells are just left to taunt our fearsome squirrel hunter (Callie)

O well, onward with Christmas!!

so many nuts {a thanksgiving wreath}

You know I'm all about wreaths these days so I was "all systems go" to try this nut wreath I saw in a

 Martha Stewert magazine. I love how it looks on our front door!

I used a straw wreath for the base, 2 lbs walnuts, 1 lb almonds, 1 lb hazelnuts

1 lb pecans, and 1/2 lb brazil nuts (this is the amount I started with and I have

about 1 - 1 1/2 lbs various nuts left over)

I started by attaching the walnuts with a hot glue gun. I didn't feel I needed to completly cover the wreath,

just the front side and around the front edges so I gued the walnuts 2-3 across, with gaps inbetween.

Progress

First layer complete

Once all the walnuts were glued in place I started attaching the other nuts to fill in the gaps.

I used the larger nuts first (pecans & brazil nuts) and then the smaller nuts to fill smaller gaps

and add color (almonds & hazelnuts)

I really like how it turned out! I didn't like the burn blister I got from the hot glue,

but all in the name of DIY I guess :)

As I mentioned earlier I didn't worry about completely covering the sides of the wreath

with nuts, I think focusing on the front was enough.

Here it is on the front door! I like the size a lot. I feel like the bigger wreath base

was a great choice for the size of our double doors.

Funny story about trying to attach a wreath to our front door: You can't use a wreath hook, because there is a ledge between the screen door and the storm door. You can't use a command hook because the screen is on the outside. So... I ended up attaching an upside down command hook on the inside of the screen door and using a ribbon to hang the wreath. Not that you needed to know all that, but since I had to deal with it, I guess you should get to too!

The mix of browns the nuts provide really says "fall" and "Thanksgiving"

I love it!

P.S. I know I'm supposed to be re-capping my spider cookies and Halloween cake pops and I will ASAP as promised. I just wanted to share a November project since the month will be over b/f I can blink twice!