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One of the things I love the most about Richmond is its proximity to the wineries in Charlottesville. Last weekend, Hubs and I celebrated his birthday in Charlottesville and were pleasantly surprised when we stumbled upon a relatively new winery. Stinson Vineyards has an absolutely gorgeous tasting room and property and their wines are fantastic to boot.

While I was there, I picked up this adorable little wreath made from grape vines.

I had a million and one ideas as to what I wanted to do with it, but like most of my projects, I choose one idea and run with it, for better or worse.

I decided to make a monogrammed wreath, but I knew that it would not hold the weight of a wooden letter. I am not lucky enough to own a Silhouette, so I printed out a large letter M from MS Word and traced and cut it out of a piece of cardboard.

I then traced the letter on to a piece of scrap fabric.

Eight months after purchasing my very first jar of Mod Podge I finally opened it and attempted to Mod Podge the fabric onto the cardboard letter.

While the Mod Podge dried I made a couple of fabric rosettes from some other scraps. When the letter was completely dry, I trimmed off the edges where the fabric and cardboard didn’t line up correctly (and there were quite a few).

I couldn’t decide quite how I wanted the wreath to look, so after a couple of tries I ended up with this:

I will admit, it’s not as awesome as what I had envisioned, but I dig it nonetheless. One of the things we AquaSeventy6 girls live by is the mantra that design doesn’t have to perfect to be wonderful to us.

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A few weeks ago I came across this idea and I knew I had to recreate it!

I was lucky enough to find these tea towels at Joann for $8.99/ 3-pack:

I added a little pocket to the back using some left over fabric from my dish towel project so that the curtain rod could slide through without having to fold back the fabric and lose the top stripe.

Here is the end result…sort of:

I would have been happy with a simple curtain made from just two tea towels. Unfortunately, the fabric of the two towels was not long enough. Since I am in a rental, and the curtain rod was already attached to the wood trim, I didn’t want to make another hole in the wood. Instead, I added some vintage eyelet trim I found at a thrift store in Florida many months ago.

It’s a little more “country” than I had envisioned, but I have grown to love it, especially since the trim reminds me of home. I also love that it’s a mix of old and new. Very fitting for a girl who just moved out of state for the first time EVER! 🙂

Sooo…what do you think? You know we heart comments here at Aqua Seventy6!

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