House Divided Wreath DIY

I saw a wreath on Pinterest a week or so ago, but it was just a Pin of a picture. No biggie, I found a tutorial for a Fabric Wreath. Gosh I just LOVE Pinterest (follow me!)

So here is how I made the house divided wreath!

I bought 2 yards of black, 1 yard of red & yellow, and 1 yard of UGA and GA Tech prints at JoAnn's, luckily I had some coupons to help with the cost, those stupid Licensed fabrics are $10/yard!

I also bought a wire wreath, I found mine at Hobby Lobby, I bought some wooden ovals (was looking for footballse) but ended up not using them because I remembered I had a house divided garden flag, but no garden to place it in!

*Disclaimer - I bought way too much red & yellow and a little too
much black, and this is what I have left over of everything*

First I cut the black, red & yellow in 2in strips and then cut them again, 6-8in long. After attaching them I realized that the thinner the strips the easier they were to tie, so I cut the UGA & GA Tech in 1 1/2in strips. 

Second, I tied the black all around the wreath, as there is black in both team fabrics.

So I wouldn't put too much of the red or yellow I figured out what half the wreath was, it was quite easy. The wreath was sectioned off in 10 equal parts, so I did 5 yellow and 5 red. I tied a red and yellow on the top and bottom.

This is what it looked like before I put the team fabric.

Since it took so long, and I bought the cheaper Pinking Sheers, I took the weekend off and cut the rest of the fabric yesterday. I have a blister on my middle finger, ouch!!!

I finished this last night while waiting on Steven to get home, which was about 10:30pm, yuck!!

The flag came with a rod and suction cups, we tried to suction it to the door, but we didn't think it would stay, so I took the suction cups off, and put floral wire through the holes in the rod and attached it to the wreath. I then kind of adjusted the flag so both teams were visible. 

And to think, I plan on doing this a couple more times, and soon! HA! 

Next Steps

We won't find out our official separation date until Steven gets the memo, which knowing the Army's "Hurry up and wait" mentality, could be a few weeks to a few months. Until that we're kind of in limbo. He can't start ACAP until he has that date, and he can't start applying for jobs until he fixes his resume, which he was hoping to get help with when he went through ACAP. He could write his resume now, but it would probably not help him too much since most of his marketable skills are all military related, and he isn't sure how to translate those into the civilian world. It'd kind of be a waste of his time and the other persons time right now.

So for now, he's trying to decide what he wants to do, where he'd want to do it, and how to go about doing it.

My plan, I'll wait til we have a better idea of the region we're going to, and start looking for jobs then. Until then, I'm trying to figure out what it is I want to do as well. I should also work on my resume, it's been a while since I updated mine.

So that's just our next step, for now...

The Clock has started

We found out unofficially on Tuesday and officially on Thursday that Steven was not going to get promoted. This was his second look, and we knew the possibility was there. We also knew what that meant. It means he'll be getting separated from the Army. And with his time in service we fall short for a severance package and extended health care benefits. So the pressure to find jobs is on! We both have to figure out what we want to do, and I think because we haven't set a limitation on the location, we should be alright. He has some resources within the Army that we can use and he should be able to take time if needed to go interview and what not within his last 6 months. We are sad to leave the Army, and we wish it would have been on our terms, however, we are looking forward to what the next chapter will be and ready to tackle all those obstacles. We have both grown and learned so much in the past 4 years and we will take those with us.