Hot glue and burnt fingers

I have a big furniture redo that I am starting this weekend. This piece of furniture will eventually end up in our dining room. Hopefully everything will turn out how I want it to. I have a vision in my head and I am going to do my darndest to make it happen. But in the mean time, Matt went out of town this week for work so I had to do something after the kids were asleep.

So I made this:

This is going to go in our dining room as well. I have a very special place for this big guy! You can go here and see how I made it. I went to Goodwill and bought a book for $2 and at the Dollar Tree I bought a wreath for $1. I picked out a book that had older looking pages and was thicker. I didn't want plain white pages. Most of the wreaths that I have seen made they used a 10 inch wreath. For mine I used a 13 inch. I didn't think that 3 inches would make that big of a difference but it did. It's ok though...I'm still in love. This project does take time and patience and you will have burnt fingers from the hot glue. But it is so worth it.