Thrifty Mantel Makeover & Tutorial

I've been wanting to dress up our front living room for awhile now.  We originally had kind of a country outdoors theme going on.  I've spent the last two months on bed rest with a bad back.  When I saw this cute wreath over at The Little Brown House I knew it was something I could do from bed!  My sweet mom picked the things up from the store that I needed to get it started. 

Coffee filters...

They ended up being the flat kind instead of the giant cupcake paper kind...I was worried about that, but LOVE the way it turned out!

Start by opening up the filter...

Then fold one side in towards the other...

Fold the bottom and push a straight pin through it, then push it into a styrofoam wreath...

Build your rows so that you aren't able to see any of the white styrofoam...

The first day that I was able to get up I quickly gathered supplies to paint my ugly gold frame.  It is and old frame that I had in our junk pile.  It is made out of plastic and painted a cheesy pretend gold...

It had a mirror in it, I had no clue this print was behind it...

I primed it with Krylon white primer, then I spray painted it with Krylon glossy black.  I hung the wreath with a satin white ribbon...that I don't actually like.  I'm planning to change that out...

Not too bad for the price! 

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