My friend Sanna and I had meant to make wreaths on Saturday but the weather wasn't very nice and it had already snowed a little bit so we decided not to go in to the woods to gather materials. We stayed in and had Glögg instead...
Sunday was beautiful though so I took my basket and got as much green material as I could fit in there.
Pine, fir, blueberry sprigs, moss, juniper, fern and some lavender from a pot by the garage.
Bonus helped me cut everything into 10 cm / 4" pieces which I then tied with floral wire against the store bought wreath base.
Here's the result. One small wreath for the front door. That thing that looks like a messy string is actually quite a pretty thin green ribbon with polka dots...
...and one large for the front of the house. And they both held up well against the masses of snow and the wind yesterday so I'm quite pleased.
I love them! :)
Posted by: Concha | November 25, 2008 at 07:42 PM
This totally inspired me to make a wreath, too. I have some greenns here and an old wreath base from last year. :-)
Posted by: Marion | November 25, 2008 at 08:12 PM
WONDERFUL job on these, I bet they smell so wonderful!! :)
Posted by: Pamela | November 25, 2008 at 08:25 PM
Beautiful! This has inspired me to try to make my own wreath this year instead of buying one from our farmer's market. Thank you!
Posted by: Jessica | November 25, 2008 at 08:45 PM
Lovely! Thank you for the inspiration.
Posted by: Loppran | November 25, 2008 at 08:51 PM
I love how naturally beautiful your wreaths are without lots of added embellishments. I also love the window in your front door! How did you engrave your name on it? It is a wonderfully welcoming window.
Posted by: Karen | November 25, 2008 at 09:23 PM
The wreaths look great! maybe I'll try one this weekend (between coveted knitting time) And projects with a cat helper - always the best :^)
Posted by: karen | November 25, 2008 at 09:33 PM
Simple. Pretty.
The holiday season starts in December as far as I'm concerned, so I'm filing this idea away ;-).
Posted by: Ksenia in Canada | November 25, 2008 at 09:52 PM
Just beautiful. So wish we had suitable trees so I could try making my own wreath. But being Summer here in Australia I'm not sure how it would hold up anyway.
Libby
Posted by: Libby | November 25, 2008 at 10:05 PM
Please do a post about the applique "Larsson" you have in your window. I love it!
Posted by: Wendy | November 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM
It llok great!Simple and nice.
"Bonus helped me cut everything into 10 cm / 4""
LOL
Posted by: jja | November 25, 2008 at 10:52 PM
They look great! I also love your windowbox. :)
Posted by: sherrieg | November 25, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Those are beautiful!
Posted by: Martha | November 25, 2008 at 11:54 PM
I've never made a wreath before. Can you tell me how you tie the greenery to the base? Is there a technique?
Posted by: Tessa | November 26, 2008 at 12:19 AM
I really love these! Once again, you have inspired me!
Posted by: Danyelle | November 26, 2008 at 12:59 AM
Beautiful wreaths, Benita. Martha Stewart would be proud!
Posted by: carol | November 26, 2008 at 05:14 AM
Oh, I think I have some kind of fetisch for wreaths... ;-) Yours are gorgeous! I love that they are all green, very stylish. I really should get around to make my own. I even have the cats to help me - a necessity, obviously. ;-)
Posted by: Anna - Balkongliv | November 26, 2008 at 06:15 AM
I agree with all of the above; yes, lush green wreaths without too much fuss, great!
Posted by: Petra from the Netherlands | November 26, 2008 at 07:58 AM
Beautiful, a bit of green with all that snow. Here snowed yesterday, but it is not cold enough and it was gone in a few minutes.
Keep on giving us Christmas deco ideas.
Thanks.
Ibb
Posted by: Ibabe | November 26, 2008 at 08:08 AM
Glad you like them :)
Pamela, as I was making them I was thinking I wished you all could smell it :)
Ksenia, over here we celebrate first of Advent on Sunday which sort of starts off our holiday decorating. I'm always ahead on this though as I love all the decorating before the holidays but am also one of the first to take everything down after...
Karen and Wendy, I'll do that.
Tessa, I started off by tying the wire around the wreath once and securing by twisting the wire. Then took a few sprigs of greenery at a time, laid against the base and pulled the wire tight, added more sprigs, pulled tight, etc. The wire I had was on a small spool so I went through the hole in the breath base with the whole spool which also gave me something solid to hold on to and pull. I went all around the wreath like this and held the wite taught all the time and at the end I clipped the wire and twisted the ends together with the ends of the wire where I started out. The tricky part is to hold everything taught all the time so it doesn't unravel.
Posted by: BENITA ~ CHEZ LARSSON | November 26, 2008 at 08:36 AM
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Posted by: jackie | November 26, 2008 at 04:01 PM
Simply beautiful!
Posted by: Angela | November 26, 2008 at 04:33 PM
what do you put in your windowboxes? are those plants or cuttings?
Posted by: christy | November 26, 2008 at 05:47 PM
christy, those are planted little mini-junipers.
Posted by: Benita ~ Chez Larsson | November 27, 2008 at 10:37 PM
That is beautiful. Very fitting of the season, it fits so well with the snow etc.
Posted by: Linda | November 28, 2008 at 12:57 AM
I love seeing photos from Sverige. We love Sverige. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Franziska | December 12, 2008 at 09:28 PM