A Little Something for the Dress

Couldn't let a snow day go by without a blog post!

In all my internet idea searching, I came across this, and fell in love:

from Wedding Bee

How cute is that?!?  I had the feeling I would have a snow day today, so I went to the hardware store last night (before it got bad out) to get some wire and wire cutters to try this out on my own.  I had read through some DIY's and was planning to get 14 gauge wire.  When I got there, they had this 20 gauge stuff that had a green plastic coating.  I thought I'd try it out with this wire, and if it works well, see if I can find some pink coating.  Well, here's what I came up with:

In case you can't tell, it says "love" with a heart on each side.

Although my heaviest dress held up on it overnight, I don't think it's strong enough for a wedding dress (and the 14 gauge stuff DEFINITELY wouldn't have worked).  So I started searching around on the internet some more and came up with this:

From Etsy

I'm thinking this would work MUCH better and be way stronger.


So I might get some thicker wire and a wooden hanger to try again (too bad it's the Blizzard of Oz out there right now)... or this Etsy person sells the metal names part for just $15 (pluse $5 shipping).  The ones she's made look way better than mine, but maybe with a little practice, I'll get it to look better.  I hope. :o)