A New Spring Wreath
or... clothes for my naked front door
My front door was feeling a little naked. It told me so. I had a wreath on it last fall, but I'd been using that wreath for a few years and it was finally showing its wear. Then I had a Christmas wreath that Dad and Patricia had bought us, but it too had its time. The front door's been naked for a couple months. So, the other week I noticed that AC Moore's was having a sale on all their silk flowers. I took advantage.
I worked at a flower shop when I was in college. I absolutely loved it. I loved that my job was to pick out pretty flowers and pretty colors and put them together in gorgeous bouquets. I tried my hand at making arrangements sometimes. Its much harder than it looks. I got pretty good at making boutineer's though. And I've got the big poofy bow's that we'd tie around bouquet's down pat (I can tie very nice bows on presents, too -- yay).
Needless to say -- I still love going around and picking out pretty flowers and pretty colors. I LOVE oranges. I think it makes things pop. The bluish-purple, yellow and white accents accentuate the orange pretty well, I think. Hopefully the bugs and the birds don't make a home of it too soon.
For the record: the orange are sunflowers of some kind; the yellow is forsythia; the blue kind of looks like a delphinium but the leaves are all wrong; and I think the white is stephanotis but again, the leaves aren't quite right...