The JamPak

I moved into a little place called the JamPak with 3 other girls (5 if you count the two living in the basement, I usually don't). The name is a combo of the landlord's (aka 2 of our pastors) first names. Anyway, we have come to love the name. So part of my nesting when I moved in was a craft project involving the name. 

Recently (and by recently I mean back in September when I first started this project) I have seen a lot of pinterest links of yarn wrapped letters. And it has become sort of an obsession. Thankfully the roomies were on board. So one Monday night, during our weekly house watching of Revenge, we each wrapped a letter. 

First, I attempted to practice the yarn wrapping with an old idea vase and some hot glue. 

It was an utter failure.

 I decided less glue was better. So I laid out the letters on the ground (had to figure out if I like the look of all different letters...I did).

So for 43 intensely suspenseful minutes, we wrapped our letters. Some of them were harder than others and we didn't really every figure out the best way to do it. I think if i were to do it again I would wrap all the tricky parts and the ends first using lots of hot glue, then go over it all to give it a cohesive look. I'm pretty happy with how my "a" turned out though.

And the LOVE the look the of the finished letters!

 And now our house has a name! We even moved the letters to the fireplace mantle and I think they look great! (This pictures gives you a sneak peak of some of the other craft projects that I'll get to soon!)