Christmas wreaths

A little while ago I posted about my intention to make and sell Christmas wreaths - and here are the results of some of the orders I got! I had some very happy customers.

The last one is the wreath I made for my own front door, but the photo really doesn't do it justice.

Christmas at college

We're finishing off the art unit at college at the moment so we haven't been doing any practical work recently, but for the last week we made some Christmas arrangements - we made a table centrepiece and a door wreath. I'm so pleased with how they came out - especially my door wreath! It's a bit over the top glittery but I think it looks pretty good.

Another half day

I spent another morning in the florist last weekend. I made up a couple of bouquets and did a lot of aqua packing, and I got to make and decorate some Christmas wreaths! These were put up for sale in the shop which was quite exciting.

Getting ready for Christmas

It seems very early but I want to try and sell some Christmas wreaths so I went out this weekend to get some bits to decorate them with. Needless to say I got a little carried away! The wreaths on the white background are ones I put together this weekend - I just made one then changed the decorations. I'm going to promote them on facebook and at work so I wanted to have some photos ready for any potential customers to see. I've already got a few orders so I'm off to a good start!

The photo on the brown background is the wreath I had up at home last year, that I made on my evening course. That wreath was a lot bigger but also a lot heavier and more expensive to make.

Candy Canes

I'm a little bit obsessed with candy canes - I don't actually like eating them but I just love the way they look! So I wanted to find some ways to incorporate them into my Christmas decorating. I had a look around the good old Internet and came up with a couple of ideas and here they are:

Candy cane vase

Candy cane wreath

Table centrepiece

My mum tasked me with designing a centrepiece for the table on Christmas day, and this is what I came up with:

It did take me quite a while but I'm so pleased with the overall result that it was definitely worth it!

Christmas decorating: part 2

Some more of my christmas decorating now - this is the garland going up my staircase. This is made up of a plain green garland, an ivy garland, lights, pine cones, cinnamon sticks, a tiny owl and little bird houses. Simple materials but I think they all look very effective when all together.

Christmas decorating: part 1

My christmas tree! My family left me to it, they've learnt that the hard way, so this is all my handiwork. Well, except the lights - there's three sets on this tree so I got my mum to help. The tree is real and the decorations are strictly gold.