ease into spring with a faux moss wreath

spring's arrival is just around the corner!
here's an easy way to ease into it...

i'm pairing my white fabric wreath that i created this winter

with a new element for spring - along with a few other items -

and i love how it bridges this 'winter into spring' time of year. 

even the smallest changes can reflect nature

and refresh your home decor in just minutes.

big changes are good - but they don't ALL have to be big.

continue reading for an easy wreath + decor tutorial!

dwk

i've made my 'moss' wreath using fringed 'eyelash' yarn in green tones
and a hard foam wreath form from Dollar Tree:

i have three tones of green eyelash yarn - i started the wreath using all three,
but realized that i didn't really like the lightest color. so i removed it.
(i think the lighter shade of green looks more like grass, instead of moss)

making this wreath is SO simple:
you wind the yarn around the wreath form. that's it!
i overlapped the end of each hank of yarn to hold the next one in place, 
then tucked the final end beneath the first few rounds of yarn.

here's another way to make this:
use real moss (the kind you purchase at the craft store - it's been cleaned and dried)
lay pieces of moss onto the foam and use U-pins (floral supply) or staples
to hold each section in place - or you can use hot glue.

i like to use things over and over, so i rarely attach anything permanently!

i hung the moss wreath inside the white matlasse' fabric wreath i made in January,
using a fat wide piece of satin ribbon to hold it in the center of the larger wreath.

then i added some details:

a selection of white ceramic cups and a tiny pitcher hung from white ribbon

fills in the center of the wreaths and gives it a more interesting layered look.
a few tufts of more eyelash yarn 'moss' continues the theme.

the wreath and the white ceramics hang from their ribbons
which loop over the metal wreath hanger on my old gate
(sorry, none of my photos show that!)

below the wreath, i massed white ceramic vases and cups
then filled them with rounded tufts of eyelash yarn 'moss'.

one more ceramic cup was included on the mantel,
as a perfect spot for a moss and ribbon 'nest' for a little white ceramic bird friend.

when i was placing the moss into the vases,
i remembered a white vase with a face i had picked up last summer.
with a frizz of the light green yarn as 'hair', he looks quite happy!
(but i didn't include him in my mantel vignette -
he lives in the living room with some of our tiki mug collection)

this isn't the first time i've used ceramic cups as a decorative element...

i hung tiny doll dishes on a lampshade that i made back in 2009
and hung china tea cups from a brass chandelier in a store display in 2015.

you can use ANYTHING you want to in your decor
to create a home you love to live in...

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thank you for including my project in your feature, Donna!

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