My Handmade Wreath!

jennikitten

Looks amazing!! Think Kirstie needs to get some tips from you, her homemade wreath looked awful!

ALIBOBSY

OH made one for us last year from garden stuff and foraged stuff, he didn't even use a metal frame,just a flexible thin tree branch (we live in a semi rural area with miles of land and plenty of bushes/trees etc to forage).

I was actually amazed how good it looked.
Just shows even after being with someone for over a dozen years they can still suprize you lol turns out he is quite arty and crafty. He is going to do this years in the next few days.

Definately worth a bash for anyone I would say.

ali x

Mayflower10cat

That's beautiful!

I used to make my own wreaths and garlands in our last house as we had a lot of land and ivy & greenery all over the place. I just bent a wire coathanger into a rough circle as the frame, bending over the hook into a hanging loop - nice and strong as they can be heavy! Or you can use willow as it's nice and bendy.

dogstarheaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UZMFercIxA here's a link that gave me some tips on making it look symmetrical and balanced. last yr, had to go by instinct, and it was a little gappy in places...

peter_the_piper

OH made 3 the other day and rested them on the ground whilst getting more holly. Puppy decided that wreaths were great fun to play with, totally destroyed one. Exit one chastised pup and p****d off oh.

KittyBoo_2

I think that is beautiful and really do prefer the homemade things.
It always reminds me of the pictures my lads used to bring home when they were little.
It didn't matter to me that they weren't perfect. (the pictures, not the lads).
To me they were beautiful.
I still put some of the smaller Xmas pictures of robins and baubles up as decorations and my sons are now 26 and 24.

ChinaGriffin

Wow, that's beautiful. Well done OP!

heretolearn_2

This is probably a stupid question - but how do you fix them to the door? I've never got one as I can't work out how...

We have a horrid PVC door if that makes any difference.

Ta.

Mayflower10cat

heretolearn wrote: »

This is probably a stupid question - but how do you fix them to the door? I've never got one as I can't work out how...

We have a horrid PVC door if that makes any difference.

Ta.

I solved that problem by getting one of those Ikea white plastic picture hooks (they have 4 metal pins that you bash into the wall). Take the pins out with pliers and epoxy or superglue the hook to the UPVC.

dogstarheaven

http://www.screwfix.com/sfd/i/cat/45/p1397645_l.jpg

i got a 'screw eye', a fairly robust one for about a pound or two, i think. then the wreath was attached using a cable tie so that any opportunist thief can't take a fancy to it either...