This was the other project I was telling you about that I made for Easter…the winter glitter wreath was pretty but it was time for a change. At first I was going to a do bunch of bright pink peonies (my favorite flower) but they looked a little too fake. For awhile I didn’t let a single silk flower in my house, but now I’ve expanded my horizon & as long as they look like perhaps they could be real I let them join us.

(you can find the “baby sleeping” sign in the window here, barking sheltie- make best offer)

For this project you’ll need a styrofoam wreath form (mine is 14″), hot glue gun & glue sticks & lots of pretty flowers. My wreath took 3 bunches of Magnolias but luckily they’re almost always 50% off at Michael’s or JoAnn’s. Really it’s just a bunch of pulling off the flowers & sporatically gluing them around the wreath. Before I put each flower on I’d glue a leaf or two down first, I think they add some nice dimension. But here’s the big tip that helped me out…

Before gluing a flower on firmly press the tip of your hot glue gun into the styrofoam, it will melt a hole that’s a perfect fit for the plastic base of each flower. Another tip is to place some flowers on the top, some on the inside, I like that things were kind of randomly placed all over…no real lines or pattern. I don’t know know why I didn’t take a picture of this step but to hang the wreath all I did was use a few stickpins to attach some ribbon to the back of the wreath, then I just tied the ribbon in a knot first, then pretty bow, around the wreath hanger.

That’s it! Happy Fridayyy!!!

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