i need some springtime.
okay, it snowed here this week. twice. so even though spring is 5 days away, it's not feeling very springy around here. which is why i decided to spruce up our apartment with a cheery little paper circle garland (guirnalda de papel por mi ceci en uruguay!).
one of my guilty pleasures is going to paper or craft stores and picking up pretty sheets of colored paper. there are just so many, you could spend hours trying to decide which one is your favorite. the colors, they speak to me! the only issue that my little hobby presents is that i have to find something to do with all the paper. so the past year or so, inspired by the garland my personal attendants made me for our wedding, i've been making paper garlands for our apartment door. it's a craft that makes me feel pretty accomplished, yet isn't complicated at all. i don't do complicated crafts. i enjoy my sanity.
the paper i had on hand was st. patrick's day/spring-themed, some green, pale yellow, and gorgeous gold glitter. which is perfect and timely for this weekend! and this garland is really easy. i've seen projects on martha stewart or in real simple that call for sewing the paper circles onto a thread...that would be a terrible solution for me, as i have a love/hate relationship with my sewing machine that is currently staying in the hate zone, due to some difficulty i had in (not) completing our christmas stockings.with this one, all you have to do is punch out large circles from a sheet of craft paper, the thicker the better, and pair them up. (i got my 2-inch hole punch from michael's.) then you take your precious twine and lay it out in between the circles and just go to town with your hot glue gun, gluing the twine down onto one circle, then laying the second circle on top to create a sandwich. i varied the pattern of the circle colors to get a nice variation throughout the garland.
then, hang it on your door, or wall, or wherever you feel like hanging a garland. i found that mine looked funny when i tried to zigzag it across my door like my fall garland, so i tried just hanging it across in rows, which felt a lot better to me. but do what you want! and hopefully if you decide to take photos of your garland like a crazy person in your apartment hallway, you have better lighting than i did....yikes.
i had one extra row of garland, so i decided to throw it on our hutch for a little indoor festivity. i like it there so much, i think i might leave it past st. patrick's day into the summer. it's also giving me ideas for a color scheme for our future living room...now, i have to confess that it's not completely for craft's sake that i do this. i tend to walk to the wrong floor about once a week, so it's helpful for me to have a trigger that helps me recognize my own door. (i really don't have that much going on in my life right now, so i am a little concerned as to what i'm going to be like when i'm busy for real.)let me know if anyone else has some fun spring decorating ideas, i'm feeling in the mood for some fun stuff around the apartment!
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