White and yellow Summer wreath (made with yard sale finds!)

I have really been itching to make a wreath lately.     The last wreath I made was my green wreath that I made back in the spring with thrift store finds for $3.00.  That wreath has actually been on my front door since then.

I still love this wreath so I just moved it to the inside of my front door so I get to enjoy it inside for a while!

So when I came across some yellow forsythia branches at the yard sale on Saturday on our “I love thrifting” shopping spree, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  (In case you missed our “I love thrifting” day recap post here, here I got 4 branches of these yellow flowers for 25¢ each – so $1.00 for all 4.)

And bonus – I could cross off making a wreath off my goals list, I am using something I bought thrifting on Saturday, and because I was inspired by some wreaths I saw on Pinterest I can count this as my Pinterest project for this month!

Here’s where I got my inspiration:

This yellow forsythia wreath from A Soft Place to Land

and this Forsythia and daisy wreath by SAS interiors

I grabbed a grapevine wreath from my craft room stash (I have had a quite a few of these over the years that I would pick up on sale at Michael’s or recently when I can find them for around $1 at thrift stores or yard sales.)

Then I cut each individual stem off of the forsythia branches – there were 4-5 little stems on each branch.

 

Then I just started poking them in the wreath all the way around.  I don’t usually glue my flowers like this on a grapevine wreath because I can usually wedge them in there pretty good.  And it saves time in gluing and when I want to change the wreath up in a few years when the flowers get faded they are easy to just pull out.

I just kept cutting and placing the stems all the way around the wreath

Now just so you know, I always help when I am crafting and putting together a wreath in the floor.  If you can call, grabbing at the stems, trying to eat the flowers, and chasing any ribbon I use help, that is!   That’s ok, his cuteness and company are totally worth it.

So here is my wreath with all the yellow flowers added.  Sadly that is all 4 stems and it doesn’t look near as pretty as the one above

Maybe one day I will find some more forsythia at a yard sale or find some on clearance at Michael’s.  But for now, I dug through my flower stash (yes, I have a flower stash too – remember my Hoarder’s craft room??) and found a white dogwood bunch and a white hydrangea bunch.  Both of them were bought at Dollar General when they had their home décor 50% off – so I paid $1.50 each.    I cut those apart and added them to my wreath.

 

I tied it up with some white ribbon from the dollar store and it was finished!  Not bad for some yard sale flowers, some Dollar General flowers, and a Goodwill wreath.

Final cost:

• wreath from my stash
• $1.00 for the Forsythia branches
• $3.00 for the white flowers
• ribbon from my stash

A $4.00 wreath!

Even if you didn’t have the wreath or the ribbon – the ribbon was only $1 from the dollar store and the wreath can be purchased at Michael’s for about $4 (of less if you could find one at Goodwill) so it would have still been under $10 for this project.

 

Here is how it looks from the front yard.   And look at that grass –it is actually GREEN – amazing what a little rain can do!

I know some people might call this a spring wreath and it very well could be a spring wreath as well.  But I wanted something bright, cheery, and yellow for the remaining of summer, and I am loving this on my front door!  

 

Have you made any wreaths recently?  And would you use this wreath in spring or summer – or both?

{cj}

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