Music Wreath

Dear Grandma,
Today is your daughter's 41st wedding anniversary - can you believe it?  So, in honor of mom and dad's love for music, I made them a wreath made of sheet music.  Do you like it? 



I had fun making it - it was a bit of a pain touch and go at first, getting the cones of paper to stick.  Here's the process:

Materials

Styrofoam/wood/cardboard circle (not too wide in the middle - I used wood)

Sheet music

Circular mirror (inexpensive plastic)

Hot glue gun/tacky glue (I used tacky glue, hot glue might work best though)

Cardboard

Ribbon

Tape

Heavy canister

1.  Roll sheet music into cones and use a small piece of tape to keep the cone from unrolling - make approximately 10 cones at a time.

2.  Attach back row (see picture - there are two rows) of cones onto circle with glue - I left a little bit of space in between each.  The bottom of each cone should be in line with the "inner" circle.

3.  Attach front row of cones in front of the back.  You can cut off a piece of the bottom of each cone and then glue on top of the first row (you want them to be shorter), making sure each "lies" in between the spaces instead of right smack on top of the back cones.  What I did was put tape at the bottom of the cone (w/o cutting the cone), folded about an inch and stuck the tape to the back of the circle with the top of the cone folding on top of the back row, then glue the bottom, underside onto the back row of cones.

4.  Glue the back of the mirror on top of the cones.  I put a heavy canister on top to help the glue to really set in.

5.  Once mirror is firmly adhered (leave it for a few hours), flip the wreath over.  Cut a circle out of cardboard to glue to the back to cover up the messiness of the tape, etc.  Also cut a few inches of ribbon (used for hanging the wreath up), make a loop and put the ends of the loop behind the cardboard before adhering so the ribbon firmly sticks and looks neatly placed.  I also used a heavy canister on top of the cardboard backing to press that glue in well (again, leave for a few hours).

Confusing?  Once you lay out the materials, the process pretty much naturally falls into place - perhaps there is an easier way to construct this, not sure but this is what worked for me.

Love,

H