It's been a little while since I have posted here because it's been raining for nearly two weeks in my small part of the world. I can hear you saying well what does that have to do with anything! Well I've suffered with depression and anxiety at times throughout my life. I have something called SADS which is seasonal affective disorder syndrome. It basically means that when winter comes with the shorter days and less light I tend to become lethargic or depressed. It's associated with the level of melatonin in my body, but I'll leave that for another post where I'll tell you about my journey with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Fibromyalgia and depression and anxiety. It's not easy to talk about myself personally but if it helps others on the same journey I will do so. Sharing always makes the load lighter. So let's begin.
I'm going to show you a wreath I made using a rattan cane basket that I bought for $2 at my local second hand shop. I love that place! And I love finding new uses for decor items as well.
These are the supplies I used for this project:
Here is the basket I started with:
Firstly I detatched the flowers from the bunch
I started to use tin cutters to cut through the stems but then found it easier to use pliers that I use in making jewellery. I found that these worked better.
These are more flowers that I snipped. As you can see these are the pliers I used to cut the stems.
Now comes the fun part! Attaching the flowers to the basket. Because of the weave of the basket I was able to stick the flowers through the gaps.
It was very fiddly but eventually I was able to attach all the flowers
to the basket. Some of the stem wire was sticking out at the back so I went round and carefully cut the excess wire and voila! Done!
Here in Australia we don't normally decorate for autumn with pumpkins so I found this gorgeous ceramic one at a second hand (thrift) store for a few dollars. An ode to my American bloggers!
Isn't it cute? I have so much blue in my home and this little guy fits in perfectly!
I've previously done a post on a wreath using autumn leaves and you can find it here.
I hope you like my version of an autumn wreath, I'd love to hear your comments, feedback is good. Have a great weekend friends.
I'm going to show you a wreath I made using a rattan cane basket that I bought for $2 at my local second hand shop. I love that place! And I love finding new uses for decor items as well.
These are the supplies I used for this project:
. Faux flowers
. Wire cutters
. Rattan basket
That's all! No long list of supplies to search for!
Here is the basket I started with:
Firstly I detatched the flowers from the bunch
I started to use tin cutters to cut through the stems but then found it easier to use pliers that I use in making jewellery. I found that these worked better.
These are more flowers that I snipped. As you can see these are the pliers I used to cut the stems.
Now comes the fun part! Attaching the flowers to the basket. Because of the weave of the basket I was able to stick the flowers through the gaps.
It was very fiddly but eventually I was able to attach all the flowers
to the basket. Some of the stem wire was sticking out at the back so I went round and carefully cut the excess wire and voila! Done!
Here in Australia we don't normally decorate for autumn with pumpkins so I found this gorgeous ceramic one at a second hand (thrift) store for a few dollars. An ode to my American bloggers!
Isn't it cute? I have so much blue in my home and this little guy fits in perfectly!
I've previously done a post on a wreath using autumn leaves and you can find it here.
I hope you like my version of an autumn wreath, I'd love to hear your comments, feedback is good. Have a great weekend friends.