Back to school wreath fail

Although I still have my beach decorations out,

the blog world seems to have moved on to

back to school decorating.

I've never done any back to school decorating in the past.

I was too busy going back to school myself.

Now that I'm retired from teaching,

I guess it's time for me to start doing this.

I found these heavy felt school cutouts at Dollar Tree

and immediately thought "wreath".

Then I found this grapevine wreath at a yard sale. 

I took off all the flowers (but I saved them)

and threw the faded ribbon away.

I had decided to cut apart the ABC 123.

Operating on the decorating rule of three,

I tried to place my items.

The only problem was I had four things.

Since I was doing this while my granddaughter was

taking what turned out to be a very short nap.

I didn't take enough pictures.

Suffice it to say, the glue wouldn't hold.

I didn't want to have time to look for wire.

The original wreath maker had used stems from the 

fake flowers to hold them on the wreath,

so I decided to do the same thing.

When I went outside to hang it,

a spider had created a masterpiece

where the wreath needed to go.

I couldn't get a good picture of the web.

I know you can't see it, 

but I really did try to get a picture of it.

After I took the picture,

I realized that it doesn't show up well

against the house.

I may have to find a better location.

Or a bigger wreath.

Or cover the wreath with ribbon first.

Or move my house numbers.

Or just skip back to school decorating.

I'm linking up here:
http://www.sugarbeecrafts.com/2011/08/take-look-tuesday_15.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:%20SugarBee-CraftEdition%20%28Sugar%20Bee%20-%20Craft%20Edition%29
I'm not sure why all that showed up, but when I tried to remove some it, the link wouldn't work.


and also here:
http://thriftycraftygirl.blogspot.com/2011/08/blog-hops-count-as-exercise.html

and also here:
http://christinasadventures2010.blogspot.com/2011/08/20-below-thursday-34.html