I have made some yummy eggnog, bottle is now sitting in the fridge, probably won't last long:)
Every year I make a Christmas wreath for our door, usually it's very traditional. Every year I tell myself I must do something different but then I steer towards the usual holly with red berries, pine cones, cinnamon sticks and dried orange slices, reds, greens and golds with a big red ribbon.
This year I have decided to do 2 wreaths, one for our big mirror in the hallway and one to hang on the door.
I took some inspiration from googling and got really inspired by these wreaths made with baubles in different colours. So off I went, got a cheap fake fir wreath from the pound shop and about 4 boxes of baubles in different colours and sizes. Then I got some wide cream ribbon, 1/5 meter and dug out some rubber bands.
And this is what I created! (it's hard to get a good photo with all the bling!)
Ideally I guess you would glue the baubles onto the base, which could be polystyrene, but this worked just as well I think!
Next I went for a hunt outside and got some berries in red, orange and yellow, also some fir branches which I used as a base to cover another one of my bargain £1 wreaths, little bigger this time. Then I took a needle and string and created a strings of red, orange and yellow and tied them around the wreath in a not very regular order:) Added some green ribbon and a big dark plum bow and voila!
I do hope it's cold enough so the berries hold up and last till end of December!
Just found a photo of my last year's Christmas wreath, which was pretty much traditional too, only I chose purple and green colours. Then I decided it looked too plain, so I remembered I had these rosy red little jingle bells (thanks to the lovely pound shop again) that were a bit scratched and beat up so I covered them in raspberry coloured glitter...it also made for a nice christmasy effect jingling every time the door opened and closed:)
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