Bubbly Burlap Wreaths travel to Leesburg, VA

That's right - SOTSS Crafts packed up our supplies and headed up north this past weekend!  We booked this party a while back.  Jennifer wanted to make the bubbly burlap wreaths at her craft party in Leesburg, VA after school let out.  Thank goodness for Summer!  My Mom, my Grandmother, Krysten, and I packed up the supplies, and our kids, and headed to Baltimore, MD - with only one major pit stop ---

 

 That's right - Wegmans!  We stopped at Wegmans, the nicest, cleanest, most colorful grocery store -ever!  We loaded up on fresh fruits and dinner items - and a few spicy brown rice california rolls!  They are sooo delicious!  Then we headed to Baltimore, MD where we stayed with our Grandmother.

The next day, we headed to another one of our favorite places (all of the places that we rarely travel to because they are hours away from Newport News)....Can you guess?

IKEA!

We perused the den furniture, "cooked" in the kitchens, tested out the beds, and played with the toys.  Shopping is hard work!

On Sunday, our Grandmother, Mom, and kids headed to the Port Discovery Children's Museum in Baltimore, MD.  From the stories, this place sounds AWESOME and we are going to have to visit it again soon!

Krysten and I drove to Leesburg and arrived at Jennifer's house without any major traffic (only the minor delay due to being stuck behind a speed limit abider on route 15??? - eesh!).  With Jennifer's permission, we rearranged her kitchen and den so that all of our crafters were in the same room.  We didn't want anyone to feel left out.

Then, we set out all of our supplies on Jennifer's lovely, and roomy, island.

Everyone arrived and the crafting began!  We started by choosing our ribbon, burlap, fabric and/or paint colors.  Then we painted the letters. 

As our paint dried, we enjoyed chocolate covered strawberries, chicken salad, cheese dip, crackers...my mouth is watering just thinking about it....YUM!

Next was the tough part - tough on the fingers.  We started bubbling our burlap.  Although, two ladies had to modify their wreaths to fit the space between their storm door and their front door.  That's okay, though, because they turned out just as pretty (you'll see later!).  

After adding the bubbly burlap, it was time to accessorize - look how they turned out!

Although we suffered from battle wounds - hot glue burns and sore thumbs from the floral pins - these bubbly burlap and fabric wrapped wreaths turned out so wonderfully.  A lot of these ladies lived in the same neighborhood as Jennifer, so I'm sure the mailman will be impressed when he sees such beauty hanging from your doors!  You all did a fantastic job!  Thank you, Jennifer, for having us at your lovely home - we had a great time with you all!