Ladies Night- Fall Wreath Class

Disclosure:  This is a sponsored post as I was invited to a class at My Sweet Pea in New City.  All opinions expressed are my own.

Last Thursday I attended the Fall Wreath Making Class at My Sweet Pea in New City.  The class was the first of a series of seasonal Wreaths that will be held for adults at the store on Thursday evenings.  I was excited to attend as I love decorating for the seasons, love crafting, and love a night out with other adults.

We got together to begin the class and we brought a few bottles of wine.  All of the supplies (included in the price of the class) were ready and waiting for us as we got there, including different options for the ribbon, paint, and adornments.  I found this was one of the best parts of the class, because although we all learned the same skills we were able to modify to better fit our design style and personalities.

The smaller craft room at My Sweet Pea ready for class.

The group of ladies that we were with were great.  Doreen (our teacher) helped us to get started and even offered other ways of beginning the design if we were having difficulty.  She was very helpful and offered to show us time and time again.  In fact, I had to start over when I wasn’t loving the way it was coming out. Doreen said that its totally normal, happens often and offered suggestions as to how to start again and make it look more like I had envisioned.  The first thing she had us do was paint our monogram letters so that they would be dry by the time we needed to add them at the end of the class.  After that we created the basic shape of our wreaths.

Beginning the burlap process.

Basic shape ready!

Once we got that completed for the wreath (the burlap was really the longest part), Doreen showed us how to make the nice large bows you see all of the time.  She showed us how to do it first free hand and then showed us using a special little gadget called the “bowdabra”.  Each student liked a different look to their bow, some larger and more round, others flatter and smaller.  Doreen patiently walked each one of us through the process until we loved our own bows.

J thinks about what she wants her bow to look like. 

The last part of the wreath making had us adding our embellishments.  We had the monogram letters from earlier on in the project as well as choices in flowers (either burlap or silk).  The finished products are shown below.

Our finished products, LOVE THEM!!!

They all came out amazingly and I am so proud to display it on my front door.  I cannot wait to make my Christmas Wreath on 11/20.

To register for a class email: MySweetPeaStore@yahooo.com.  I am hooked, I’ll see you there.

Wreaths aren’t your thing?  My Sweet Pea offers other classes for adults and children.  There are adult and children’s cake/cupcake decorating classes as well as some other craft classes for kids.  Have a crafty child who would love a birthday party that follows these lines, My Sweet Holds those too!  The monthly schedule is below.  If a group wants to get together and do a certain craft that you don’t see, give Sheri at My Sweet Pea a call and she can arrange it for you.