That's So Pinteresting!: Clothes Pins and the 4th of July

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I saw several clothes pin wreaths but not one for the 4th. See the wreath I made last year HERE. Anyhoo, I started taking last years wreath out of the closest to put it up again, and got inspired to make a new wreath from clothes pins. It is a very easy project.

You need red, white and blue spay paint, a wire circle, silver paint for the stars, and don't forget the clothes pins. I bought 200 for $4.00, I wasn't sure how many it would take.

This project cost me $8.50, and that's because I didn't have white spray paint on hand, I ran out of blue, and I had to buy clothes pins.

The steps, I had a wire wreath on hand. I picked it up at a yard sale about a year ago for .50. Seriously! Go hit the weekend yard sales people it is a terrific way to get things CHEAP!

This is the ring I picked up

I got a pair of needle nosed pliers and clipped the rings.

I ended up with 2 rings, I guess you can say I did this project for $8.25, LOL.

Take your clothes pins and circle them around the ring. DO NOT PAINT THEM FIRST.

Mama's little helper :)

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124 clothes pins later

Let's count by 5's :)

You will count out your red and white clothes pins first. I counted groups of 5's and ended up with 40 in each group, and the remainder I painted blue.

Get out the spray paint and go to town. Side note, the red and blue paint covered the raw wood easily, the white however, did not. I bought a cheap $1 can and had to use the entire can.