Wreathes are a fantastic craft to make at home as you can use just about anything as your medium.
For my base I’ve used copper garden wire – it’s very soft and malleable, and it has a similar effect to branches. I looped a circle a few times, then wrapped wire around three locations – including the part at the bottom where the wire ends are. They will be hidden eventually!
I also looped some twine around the top as it will be hung on a wall.
What can you do with a lot of gemstone chips lying about? I bought a lot of these chip strings as I used them for my tree of life pendants, but I never seem to use all the chips. They sit in this nice box in my drawers!
I previously touched upon carambola flowers in my last blog post. After a bit of trying and searching, this excellent video by ZIZ origami helped me understand how to fold one properly. I highly recommend you check it out!
I made a bunch of flowers out of three shades of blue. The paper was cut from 12cm squares, then cut into pentagons.
When you look up origami bouquets, you might see images of different types of origami flowers, folded from patterned or themed paper, and tied up neatly and used as a decoration or even a bride’s bouquet. Most of the bouquets I’ve made before have all been one type of flower but in different colour shades, so I spent a bit of time trying to do this.
The most popular flowers are lilies, tulips, and kusudama flowers. I mixed up lots of colours and patterns. I added some carambola flowers later too – I had to learn how to make these from a video but I may do more with this in a different project!
Like many people around the world, I haven’t been able to travel for a Christmas gathering. This is the first time I’ve spent Christmas without my family, and so I’ve set up my very first Christmas tree in the corner of my home. I’ve made a lot of the ornaments myself to personalise it!
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