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DIY wreath christmas craft

DIY: Christmas wreath

Time to create and hang the front door wreath! Each year I try to make something with materials around the house (here is last year’s and the year before). I’ve been loving a muted neutral palette lately, so I decided to use some scrap fabric in gold, beige and grey for this year’s wreath.

Materials you’ll need:

- cardboard pieces (cut up the boxes from all the gifts you’ve been ordering online!)

- brown packing paper or newspaper

- scrap fabric in the color of your choice

- tape

- ribbon

Easy steps:

- start with six cardboard pieces of the same size and tape them together to make a hexagon. This will be the frame of the wreath and it’ll all be covered so don’t worry if it looks messy.

- next scrunch up some of the packing paper that came in your boxes or use newspaper and tape it on top of the hexagon to give your wreath some depth.

- Then cut your fabrics into pieces wide enough to cover the front of your wreath. I used three panels, and attached them by taping the ends to the back-side of the wreath.

- Next add embellishments. I decided to make little ruffle flowers to decorate the wreath. I sewed them on but you could easily hot-glue them instead. Then add a ribbon which you can use to hang it with. It looks better if you make a perfect bow separately and glue/sew it on to the longer piece of ribbon that is holding up the wreath.

- and that’s it! It should take no more than an hour to put together and costs next to nothing. Here is the finished product on our front door. Welcome guests!


baking biscotti christmas
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It was a fun holiday break - hence the radio silence! My obsession with biscotti resulted in several variations - fig+cranberry biscotti and spicy chocolate biscotti dipped in chocolate with coconut, cranberry bits, crushed candy cane bits. Packaged in a little cello bag for loved ones to enjoy with their coffee this season.

It was a fun holiday break - hence the radio silence! My obsession with biscotti resulted in several variations - fig+cranberry biscotti and spicy chocolate biscotti dipped in chocolate with coconut, cranberry bits, crushed candy cane bits. Packaged in a little cello bag for loved ones to enjoy with their coffee this season.


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diy christmas wreath crafty
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I wanted to do something more creative than last year’s wreath and had plans to make something complex and crafty (some good examples here at Creature Comforts), but with a busy week and a bunch of ladies coming over for brunch on saturday I had to think of the quickest possible way to throw a wreath together with materials i had in the house. Here’s how I made a wreath in 30 minutes! Materials: newspaper, tape, green printed fabric, red solid fabric, white ribbon, stapler 9:00am Grab an old newspaper, spread out the sheets in a long layered line, and roll them up to form a wreath. Crumple to get it to the right shape, then go round with tape. 9:10am Cut out a length of green fabric the right size to go all the way around your newspaper frame. No time to sew, just run some staples to secure the fabric at the back of your wreath (doesn’t matter if it’s sloppy, no one will see it!) 9:20am Use ribbon, or a strip of red fabric (I seriously took an old red henley and cut a long spiral down one of the sleeves) and wind it around the wreath. Tie or staple the end. 9:30am Get a white ribbon, loop it around your wreath and hang that puppy over your front door! Welcome, guests! * dimple *

I wanted to do something more creative than last year’s wreath and had plans to make something complex and crafty (some good examples here at Creature Comforts), but with a busy week and a bunch of ladies coming over for brunch on saturday I had to think of the quickest possible way to throw a wreath together with materials i had in the house.

Here’s how I made a wreath in 30 minutes!

Materials: newspaper, tape, green printed fabric, red solid fabric, white ribbon, stapler

9:00am Grab an old newspaper, spread out the sheets in a long layered line, and roll them up to form a wreath. Crumple to get it to the right shape, then go round with tape.

9:10am Cut out a length of green fabric the right size to go all the way around your newspaper frame. No time to sew, just run some staples to secure the fabric at the back of your wreath (doesn’t matter if it’s sloppy, no one will see it!)

9:20am Use ribbon, or a strip of red fabric (I seriously took an old red henley and cut a long spiral down one of the sleeves) and wind it around the wreath. Tie or staple the end.

9:30am Get a white ribbon, loop it around your wreath and hang that puppy over your front door! Welcome, guests! * dimple *


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Decorating for Christmas! I gave my little manzanita trees a season-appropriate look with little ornaments I picked up last year at Target.

Decorating for Christmas! I gave my little manzanita trees a season-appropriate look with little ornaments I picked up last year at Target.


diy wreath christmas
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This was the DIY wreath I made last year with some fresh tree branches, a wire hanger and ribbon. I love it because it’s the first wreath I made myself, but it’s sort of traditional. I think I’ll try to do something a little more fun this year.

This was the DIY wreath I made last year with some fresh tree branches, a wire hanger and ribbon. I love it because it’s the first wreath I made myself, but it’s sort of traditional. I think I’ll try to do something a little more fun this year.