When I was at a yard sale a couple weeks ago, I scored an incredible deal on a huge box of silk flowers.
I need some summer wreaths for my front doors & thought these flowers would be perfect for the project. I bought 2 wire wreath forms & got started…
That’s when I realized that I grossly overestimated the number of flowers it takes to make a wreath.
I’ll also admit that I didn’t look over the box very well when I purchased it because it was so cheap. I now realized that these flowers were completely random combinations. They probably wouldn’t do well as a wreath. There also was a centerpiece in the box that I didn’t notice. I wanted to keep that together, so my number of flowers was now limited. I put the box in the basement & forgot about it for a week.
But I still had the wreath forms sitting on my kitchen table, along with the floral wire & scissors. I should have gathered them up & put them in the box with the flowers but I didn’t. I finally decided to give the box ‘one more look’ last week, just to make sure that all hope was lost in making a wreath. I lugged the box back up from the basement & sat everything out.
Once everything was laid out, I thought that maybe I had enough stuff for one wreath? I started putting things in the wreath form & tying it together with the floral wire. Even though the flowers were a total hodgepodge, at least they all looked sort of summery. I kept tying flowers & greenery together until I filled up the entire wreath. By that time, I had used up pretty much all the flowers & I had a completely random, summer wreath!
I was just happy to use up the wreath form & box of flowers!
I’m linking the post up with the following link parties:
- To Grandma’s House We Go
- Craft Schooling Sunday
- DIY Salvaged Junk Projects
- Sunday Features
- Motivate Me Monday Block Party
Great job and wonderful to "meet" you on craft schooling Sunday, hope you'll be back again soon!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much! This is my first time doing the linkup & I'm loving all the awesome projects!
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