White Button Wreath

Kathleen over at Faded Charm hosts a weekly  “White Wednesday” party and she so graciously allowed me to join in.  For my first “White Wednesday,” I wanted to share my white button wreath.

 

Making a wreath from buttons is certainly not a new or novel idea.  I didn’t think of it on my own.  Actually, I first saw it done in a magazine years ago.  More recently,  I was reminded of the idea when Cindy @ My Romantic Home  made several beautiful button wreaths and posted about them on her blog.

 

A while back, I wrote a post about what a wonderful seamstress my mother was and how I inherited her  stash of buttons when she died.  Looking for a creative way to display some of her buttons, I  decided  to  make my own wreath with the many shades of white buttons I found in her sewing chest.

It was a little time consuming, but oh-so-easy.  First, I used white spray paint to paint an old grapevine wreath I already had.  Once it was dry, I then wrapped it with white lace and secured it on the back of the wreath with a dab of hot glue.  After that, I simply used the hot glue gun to attach the buttons onto the wrapped wreath.

This little wreath is not only cute, but it has significant sentimental value to me since it was made with my mother’s buttons.