Cardinals Winter Nesting Wreath

 

Do you love Cardinals as much as I do?

When I saw this Winter Wispy Wreath made by Kim at  MadeInADay.com  I knew that it would fit right in with my Christmas decorations. 

I had the wispy grapevine wreath, although it was painted apple green, but just a little white paint solved that problem. 

I added a few twigs at the bottom to get the branched out look.

The six Cardinals came from Dollar General ... total cost of $3.00. The rest of the stuff, I already had. 

 

I painted this old mirror frame and it looks great hanging inside it in my Entry.

I added a garland of berries around the inside edge and made a small nest. Kim had some pretty golden berries around her nest. I had planned to just leave those off, but when I went to town today, I noticed the wild Chinaberry trees were loaded with these golden berries, so I stopped by the side of the road and picked a few. They are a little swiveled, but look pretty natural for this wreath.



Chinaberries have a rather large seed with a hole through the middle. As kids, we would let the berries dry; remove the skin and string the seeds and make a necklace and bracelet out of them. 

 

Kim's is more open and "wispy", which looks much better. I like the open wispy look.

 I did not have the tiny pine cones, so just added some round seed pods. 

 

Very easy to make and did not cost much.

Thanks to Kim for letting me copy-cat her. Hope you will visit her ... she has some great craft ideas. 

Hope you enjoyed the wispy winter wreaths.

Christmas Blessings. 
Audrey Z.

 

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