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Hanging initials are all the rage right now. I’ve seen so many cute styles out there!

Floral…

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moss… (Thanks, Miss Mascara!)

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painted wood…

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Somehow, I thought something like this, from Martha Stewart’s webite, would be easier.

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Darn you, Martha! You conned me again!

I purchased some wired floral vine from a gift shop in Mr. Bunny’s hometown when we visited a few weekends ago. That night, as FMIL Bunny and I watched chick-flick Australia, I bent and twisted and snipped and wrapped the letters with wire to create this:

Making the wired letters was a pain in the butt! I had such a hard time making them take the shape I wanted and spacing out the flowers the right way. It didn’t help that the floral vine was really short and I had to use two to three sections to make one letter. I actually made an “L”, too, but I haven’t hung it on ribbon yet.

Here’s a close up showing the crazy wire wrapping that I had to do to shape the letter.

When I finished and held it up to the light, I realized I probably should have used green floral wire instead of shiny silver wire. It would have been WAY less noticeable. But there was no way that I was about to go back and re-wrap the letters after spending an entire 3 hour movie on them!

Now for the question: “L” is both of our first initials and “R” is my future last initial. Is it silly to have just the two letters? Should I have made two “L”s for both of our first names? Should I make an extra “L” so all the letters in our monogram are represented? As always, your thoughts are appreciated!