Spring Wreath

I went to Hobby Lobby last week to finished picking up the rest of the items I needed to finish some Mother's Day projects for the children at church.  In the floral section they had beautiful spring wreaths lined up on a wall.  The colors of the flowers and arrangement of them were just so beautiful.  I thought that one wreath would look so pretty on my front door at home, so I reached for the price tag to check how much it was.  I about fell over at how much they were selling them for.  I couldn't believe it.  I thought , "Hey I can make one".  Fortunately the wreaths were 1/2 off, so I picked up this one and paid $2.50 for it.

The flowers were not on sale last week when I was there, so I waited until this week and bought these...

I just loved all the different colors of these flowers.  The best part was they were all 1/2 off!  I also bought a few small feathers to put in at the wreath.  I am not a big fan of feathers, but I loved the ones I picked out because they were small and so pretty.  I first started off by hanging my wreath on a door in my house so I could start placing the flowers where I wanted them.

When I finally finished placing all the flowers where I wanted them I turned the wreath around and tied the flowers in place with wire.  I then placed the feathers in between the flowers in just a few places. 

Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE birds.  Someone gave me two yellow glass birds about a year ago.  They used to belong to my grandmother, and she kept them in her curio, and growing up I loved looking at them.  They were sitting on my window seal above my kitchen sink, but they kept falling in the sink when I would clean the window, or when the girls would climb up on the counter.  I didn't want to put the birds away, so I thought they needed a home in a nest in my new wreath.  So I made this...

I placed the birds  in the nest, and put them in the middle of the wreath.  I tied a bow on top of the wreath with the same raffia I used to make the bird nest.

                                                  

This is what it looks like on my front door...

                                                 

I just love how my wreath turned out, and it was a fraction of the price of the pre-made wreaths.  I think one just like it would make a great Mother's Day gift for my mom!