I took a stroll in our nearby park this week on the most best drop working day. Temps ended up small 60’s, sky was shiny blue, there was a slight breeze and just the smell of autumn in the air. The trees have been turning for two weeks now but on this day, with the breeze, leaves have been fluttering to the ground all close to me.
I introduced a bag with me to gather leaves, as one does on fantastic slide days, and I gathered so a lot of that it felt like it weighed a several pounds. I instantly thought of the perfect strategy for my huge bag of leaves…. a leaf wreath created with a wire hanger!
I very first noticed this leaf wreath idea a long time ago on my close friend Gina’s blog site, Willowday. I knew it essential a ton of leaves since they are stacked, and I’m typically an individual who only collects what I can hold, so I have not had a possibility to carry household a major leaf haul until finally now!
How to make a leaf wreath with a wire hanger:
1. Obtain your leaves and organize them by shade. I have to have gathered a several hundred leaves at the very least, but real truth be instructed I *even now* did not have more than enough. I had to lower my hanger a minor shorter. So err on the side of too significantly!
2. Use needle nose pliers to untwist the best of the wire hanger. Use your own hands to bend out the kinks, then to bend it into a circle. To slash the wire hanger (which you will possibly have to do until you acquired hundreds of leaves!), just bend back and forth a couple situations in just one spot and it will break. You can do this by hand or with the pliers. (You can also use floral wire, like this vine-included kind, as a substitute of a hanger.)
3. Get started stacking and threading the leaves onto the wire hanger. It is incredibly easy to do, you can do a bunch at a time.
4. Thread them upside down right until you get midway, then thread them right side up.
6. When you are accomplished threading, use the pliers to bend the stop into a very little loop, then hook it at the best to secure the ring.
This wreath will start off to dry up quite promptly and the shades will fade. If you want the color to last, attempt dipping the leaves in beeswax first!
xo, Bar
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