Flashback: Summer Wreath with Flip Flops

This post originally appeared last year but I wanted to share it again as part of my flashback series.

This summer wreath is made out of the quintessential summer item: flip flops!

For me, that means flip flops are pretty much all you see on my feet. The only exception is if I am heading to a meeting and, then, I throw on a pair of heels for the duration. In my mind, flip flops = summer!
I wanted to change up some of the decorations on the house for summer and started with the front door. Can you guess where this going?

Yep, I flip flopped my front door.

Pretty awesome, right? Now, my door is celebrating summer just like I am.

So, you want some deets on how I made this? I’ll warn you that I have very few {actually, zero} in process pictures. I know…bad blogger. This one was just so quick and easy and I was trying to throw it together before we left for vacation.

So, grab your wreath form of choice. I picked up one of the flatter mdf ones from Michaels. They cost a whole lot less and for the flip flops to sit flat, it was perfect. Cheap and easy!
Paint it, cover it…do whatever you want as the base. I simply wrapped mine in white ribbon

The flip flops came from Michaels too. I’m sure you could actually wear them but I just grabbed a variety of sizes so they wouldn’t all be the same on the wreath. Mine is a mixture of adult and child sized flip flops. $1.50 per pair at Michaels…If you combine it with a coupon, you can get them even cheaper!

Now, here is where is gets fun. Heat up your hot glue gun and get glueing. I just spread a bunch of hot glue on the back of my flops and glued them down. My original plan to use E3000 glue failed when I couldn’t get it open {crafter #fail}.

In addition to all kinds of flops, Michaels also had flip flop decorations. I picked up some cute little curly things {foam I think} and just wrapped them around the toe piece of some of the flops.