Wreath Time

One more Christmas post, even though I know everyone is over Christmas.... : )

 

One of my winter tasks was making wreaths for our doors.  When Molly and I were at Michaels to pick up supplies for another craft, I got some wreath decorating supplies.  Fun Ribbon, Pine cones with painted tips and gold Christmas balls.  I know a 'red' scheme pops better from the street, but come on, gold...glitter... poka-dots, how could I saw no to that ribbon!?!? I also got thin dark green floral wire. The thinner wire you can cut with scissors, which is good since I don't know where my wire cutters went!

 

 

 

 

I wanted to support our local garden center to get my wreaths but they had slim pickings so I went to Home Depot...(boo don't get fresh greens at the big box store...) any way...moving on...

I had some time one day so I got to work....  The gold balls already had wire, so they were easy to twist into the greens to secure them.  I decided to wire them in in groups of 3. 

 

 

The pine cones did not have wire, but that is easy to add, just wrap the wire around the base, but tuck it into the cracks so you can't really see it.  They had plastic stakes, but I ripped those off.

 

 

 

Then the real challenge...make your bow..in hindsight I should have bought a bow, or had someone at work make my bow, since I didn't do that great of a job. haha It is way too big and lopsided...oh well, you win some you lose some!  And the way I made it, I cut little slits in it, so I couldn't redo it.  Good think I didn't bother taking photos of the steps I used to make the bow, since they wouldn't have been worth sharing! : )

 

 

But I think the average person thinks the bow looks fine, and the wreath does look nice.  And sometimes that needs to be good enough. : )