Christmas decorations - silk flower garland
This is a deliciously, pretty, thing. It's more fragile and elegant than the average Christmas decoration, which tends to be dramatic and robust rather than delicate, and as a result it has fantastic potential for draping along a breakfast table or wrapping around family photographs on the mantelpiece. It is something you need to plan for in advance, so if you didn't gather the requisite materials this summer, you'll know for next year and be prepared!
It really couldn't be easier to put together this garland although when it's done, it looks very impressive and time-consuming.
- Around 50 silk or paper flower heads (you can gather these up in charity shops and car boot sales throughout the year)
- Glue
- About 20 3 inch cardboard circles and two half inch circles
- 1 large needle and about 4 metres of twine or string.
- 2 pretty Christmas baubles
- Hundreds and hundreds of dried leaves - beech, oak, whatever you've got, that's not too long and narrow.
Paint or spray your circles until they are approximately the same colour as the most predominant tones in your silk flowers - you can do this with a child's poster paints. Once dry, take the flowers apart until you have all the flower heads and throw away the stems, glue the flowers around the outside of the larger cardboard circles and then pierce a hole in the centre of each circle with the needle. Thread the needle and tie a bauble on the far end of the thread, now slip one of the two small circles down the thread to the end. Push the needle through about ten leaves at a time, threading on 20 or 30 or even 50, before slipping a flower circle onto the thread and then adding more leaves. Don't make it equal, put the flower circles on randomly. Finish off with the other small circle and then knot the other bauble onto the end of the thread and you're done. If you can keep this in a cool dry place you can re-use it for several years.
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