Friday, November 4, 2011

Recyled Halloween Wreath

Even as Halloween ended and the decorations came down, I knew I wanted a bit of color for the Thanksgiving season. I dove into my stash of autumn colored silks and took another look at the wreath I spray painted black for Halloween. I came up with this.....


I love how it looks on my blue door! The colors against the black really pop.

Here's how it looked for Halloween, properly dark and spooky and fun. Perfect for the season.

I took some real miniature pumpkins and put them on skewers, then hot glued them in place amongst the black roses. A few silk flowers and fall leaves later and voila, the finished wreath! I love the off center design with the "breathing room" on the rest of the unadorned wreath.


Not only do I love how it looks, it cost me nothing but a $1 for the 3 pumpkins and a few minutes' time. After Thanksgiving I'll switch it over to Christmas, still using the black wreath as a base. I've got some colorful ideas for THAT design and I'll post the finished wreath here.

And now I'm thinking....what could I do for Valentine's Day with that black wreath as a starting point? Easter? Mother's Day? Just what I love, a creative challenge. Check back to see this black wreath in all of it's disguises.

I'll be linking up to the parties on my sidebar. Come visit and be amazed at the creativity out there in blogland.

4 comments:

  1. Hello! Stopping by from the tatertots & jello link up...just wanted to say - what a great season transition! it looked great for halloween and it still looks great for fall! i would definitely be interested to see what you could come up with to use this all year round


    Dianna
    dianna-the-explorer.blogspot.com

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  2. Way to recycle and replenish! I love it!

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  3. It's great fun to play with one thing and see how many variations you can come up with. This one works great for Thanksgiving! Thanks for linking it up to my November "Abundant Thanks" party!!!

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