DIY Lighted Peace Sign Wreath

I have spent the whole last week decking our halls for Christmas and working on a ton of little projects. And so today I am happy to finally be able to sit down at my computer and share something with you. I made this festive lighted peace sign wreath and hung it up in my bedroom window.

Every year I like to get a bit cunning and give you a amusing and particular initiatives to feature some thing more to our home for the season. This wreath in reality failed to cost me a penny to make. I made it one afternoon with gadgets I already had handy. I'm simply in love with how cool it turned out.

So to make my peace sign wreath, I took a piece of thick cardboard and laid it on the floor. This cardboard was from a large package I once received and I kept the box in our garage knowing that one day I'd have a use for it.

Next, I laid my rattan mirror (from Target) on top of the piece of cardboard to trace out a circle. Any large circular item you have laying around your home should work fine, or I'll share another method in just a bit.

Using a level, I traced round it to create the internal peace sign strains.

Now for the inner circle, I tacked a piece of string to the center of the circle, then tied a marker to the other end of the string creating a compass. I left a mark as I circled around the cardboard.

Note: This method could also be done to create the out of doors of the circle, in preference to trace a mirror or different object.

Once my peace sign changed into drawn, I reduce it out with a field cutter.

My mother-in-law gave me her old broken Christmas tree, so I cut off some branches from it for this project. However, any kind of branches or garland should work fine. At first I had planned to use the small wreaths from the dollar store. I started taking them apart and turning them into garlands, this would have worked great too, but then my mother-in-law told me about her broken tree, so I used that instead.

I just attached the branches to the peace sign with some wire. And then the last step was to add lights. These were a strand of 100 lights that I simply just wrapped around the whole wreath.