That's lovely, Shirley...and I love how they are going to such a worthy cause :-)

Back when I lived on your side of the planet, I made wreaths from dried hydrangea flowers. And in much the same way, using dried grapevine cuttings that were in a wreath shape. We actually gathered and created the wreath forms ourselves at an event at San Michelle winery!! I used that wreath for a number of years (indoors) and loved how the flower colors changed subtly over that time.

It finally got too dusty and beat up so I tossed it. And for whatever reason, I did not make another. Maybe next year..................:-)

I second the comment that both the wreath itself and the making of door decorations for a women’s shelter is lovely.

i sometimes make evergreen swags for my doors, less from the garden and more from the woodlands and a couple of field trees on my property. Some years I buy balsam wreaths from the local school, but if I am not home when their sale happens or I forget, I just cut pine, hemlock and spruce (balsam and Norway) and add cones or berries that I find along with ribbon for decoration. I confess to not being very crafty at all.

Well... one year I cut long strands of the ivy on my house and wound it all up not knowing what to use it for. While it was it was in the garage I just kept adding flowers I either dead-headed or dried to it. I don't think I knew when to quit and the next thing I knew I had this Frankenstein's Monster...

I think I finally stopped when my wife said, "You know honey, I think that's enough".

I told a friend that I grew everything on it and the reply was, "I think everything you grow is on it".

tj

Love it!!! thanks for the laugh on this dreary day.