Jason and I enjoyed a snow day yesterday, complete with no school and no work! We had lots of fun being “snowed-in” here in Augusta. We got lots of organizing done, played in the ice and snow a bit, and I even got a chance to do a long awaited project – making my very own red berry wreath.
I have wanted a red berry wreath since last year, and was sad to discover that pre-Christmas they were selling for a whopping $50 at most stores! I thought I would just be patient and wait until after Christmas sales, until I discovered this (gold berry wreath) post on one of my favorite blogs.
So how did I do it? Well first, we loaded up on some red berry picks and a grapevine wreath after Christmas last year. I think I got everything for about $10-15. Then, a whole year later, I got my very first hot glue gun – is it odd to be excited about this? – and went to town on my wreath. First I took all the tags off the picks, then I placed them in the wreath (more like shoved them into place in between the grapevine wreath branches). Finally, after a little bit of rearranging, I put a line of hot glue down the stem and wedged it right where it was before – applying a little bit of pressure to make it stick.
Here’s some photos followed by my very own how-to video filmed by Jason on my new Flip Video Camera!
Here’s the picks ready to go…
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Here’s the wreath mid-process, and completed on the wall!
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Sorry for the snow-day clothing/no-make-up/messy house!
Overall, I’m very happy with how my first hot-glued wreath turned out! Have any of your recently tried any after-Christmas-sale crafts or projects? Please share!
P.S. Thanks to my newly-found linky parties for spreading this post around the blogosphere!
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I'm such a huge fan of berry wreaths! Yours turned out great! I'll have to keep that in mind for next year.
Hi Valerie! It is so great to hear from you! I'll have to start following your blog- looks like you have been at it a whole lot longer than me!
I love it! Looks great!
Thanks!
Now this is one NIFTY THRIFTY idea…love it! I’m having a GIVEAWAY this week at my NIFTY THRIFTY TUESDAYS PARTY…would love for you to come by to enter the giveaway and also link up to my PARTY…hope to see ya there:)
Blessings,
Linda
That turned out great! I think the berry wreaths are my favorite kind of wreath, I will definetly be making one for next year. Thanks for sharing the video tutorial! And thanks for joining the party 🙂
Jill
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