DIY Easter Wreath.

This project was inspired by a guy Hubby works with, He gave hubby a roll of hessian for me to play with. The first thing that came to mind  was a wreath, and with Easter on the horizon it had to be an Easter/ Spring time wreath. 

After a trip to Hobbycraft to buy a polystyrene ring and eggs .  I set about painting the eggs and wrapping the ring with the hessian and securing it with hot glue.

The pussy willow was made from air dry modelling clay... (the stuff that feels like marshmallows) .  I rolled lots of little balls of white clay and allowed them to dry over night, before threading them very carefully onto some thick brown crafting wire I  found knocking round the craft room.

I secured the balls to the wire with a tiny amount of hot glue.  Then painted each ball (one at a time) with flower soft glue and coated each  and every ball in  white flower soft.  It was a messy business,  but the effect was worth it.

I had some artificial ivy decorating my downstairs W.C (it had to be artificial as there are no windows in our downstairs loo.) but when we redecorated last year,  I put the ivy in the garden. A year later..... and I have a use for it.
After rescuing it
from the garden I gave it a good scrub and snipped off a few trailing sections and attached them to the wreath.  I used strands of hessian to tie  them in place, then I applied a little hot glue in places for good measure.

If you were following my blog last year you may remember I was experimenting with Foamiran,
The flowers I made were too big for most of my projects, so they have been sat in a cupboard since I made them.  Half way through constructing this wreath I remembered them and  decided they would be perfect as they are waterproof,  so they won't spoil in any rain we may get over Easter. YAY!

I stuck them on using hot glue.

After covering the ring and tying the bow  there was a small amount of hessian left over. I stitched the ends together and shaped it into a nest and secured it to the wreath ring with hot glue. 

To secure the eggs I made a small hole in the underside of the egg with a kebab stick and applied a little hot glue into the hole, followed by half a cocktail stick. 

I allowed the glue to set before securing the other end of the cocktail sticks. 

To finish the nest I applied hot glue to the other end of the cocktail stick and pushed it through the hessian nest into the ring.  

Project complete.

 I think Hubby was very pleased when I finished this project, Not because he thought it was a beautiful  or anything, but because  I had taken over the kitchen with my messy stuff and there was barely room left to make coffee, let alone cook a meal

 Ha ha. 

Thanks for being here.