Fall Wreathing Project

I love pretty much everything about fall.  I love decorating for fall especially, and more especially than that, fall candles (which doesn't have anything to do with this post, but Yankee Candle's fall spices is really making me happy lately).  And I've been waiting for fall for a while now, ever since I decided to embark on making a fall wreath, which was sometime in January.  Whilst trying to decide what to do with my life should nursing not work out, I gave some thought to wreathing, but only wanted to do it during the fall.  So here we are, finally in the fall, so I can finally make my wreath.

This project was pretty simple.  I have read tutorials on using a foam wreath and hot gluing leaves and the like in place, but I think that's too messy.  Hot glue isn't really my favorite craft tool.  I've also seen some done with wire, so that's what I did.  Basically, I just went and picked out everything I liked that I could wire onto a branch wreath.  There's a pretty big selection of fall foliage at just about any craft store, so it took a while to decide.  I sat there for some extended time deciding flowers vs pumpkins and sparkley vs matte tones, and ended up going with all of the above for lack of a strong desire to go one way or the other.  I think that fall stuff looks really good with a lot of texture, so I did my best to get that, and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

4 dollar branch wreath and a collection of fall foliage stuff that I liked

After wiring a leaf garland around the branches

In progress, evening it out.  I added some yellow feathers, berries, a pumpkin, a sunflower, more random leaves, and some yellow sparkley beads to the garland by the time I was finished.  I pretty much felt like one of those kids who has to use ALL the craft stuff on the table.

My sunflower, aka, my favorite part

And the finished product, hanging on my door like something straight out of Southern Living.  Well, Southern Living might be a stretch.  But you get my drift.

Yep, there she is.  This should probably be a little higher, but it's gonna have to wait.