Vintage Ornament Wreath

I have wanted to make a vintage ornament wreath for a while and have been slowly stockpiling my collection of ornaments (through garage & estate sales & antique stores). 

 

But I didn't have as many ornaments as I thought!  Or at least enough to make a wreath just out of ornaments.  So I decided to go with a tinsel ornament wreath.  (I purchased some tinsel garlands last year on clearance after Christmas.) 

 

To get started, I bought a straw wreath using my 40% coupon at Michael's.  I kept the plastic wrapping on it.  Then I took white fabric and wrapped it around the wreath, hot gluing it as I went.

 

 

Then I hot glued the tinsel around the wreath.  The hot glue on the tinsel was kinda stinky!

 

Then I got busy picking out my favorite vintage ornaments to add to wreath.  I just hot glued these too.  It was actually harder to pick out the ornaments I wanted to use than I thought it would be.

 

In the end, I absolutely adore the outcome!  Do you see the little reindeer on the left corner?!  It's an old candle that I got in a box of free vintage lights!  Love it! 

 

UPDATE:

 

Here's where the wreath resides now that we've been putting out our Christmas deocrations!

 

 

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