Sunday, December 26, 2010

winter wreath

My wonderful neighbor has decorated her house in blues, silvers, and blacks. I was very excited to make her a present for Christmas in these beautiful colors. I love when people decorate with these frosty wintery colors, but they don't match my house AT ALL so it was fun to have a reason to buy and craft with these magical colors.
The first one had a little ribbon/lace rosette and the next one had a super sparkly silver poinsettia. I gave Dandi the one with the poinsettia and I gave my neigbor the one with the rosette.


I got the wreath from Dollar Tree and just spray painted it black. The sprigs were super cheap at Joann's. I wound black ribbon at the base of the sprigs to secure it together and then used a black twisty to attach to the wreath. Then I just put the flowers on clips and clipped them to the sprigs. I wanted everything to be removable so that I could make fun Halloween things and other holidays decorations to attach.
I have one wreath left and I think I'll have to do something sparkly and wonderful that matches my house (greens and browns).
I linked this post on a fun blog I like to visit-- Sumo's Sweet Stuff.

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