$20 + 30 Minutes: Easy Modern Fall Wreath

My old fall wreath was looking haggard (95 degree humid September days will do that), so I turned to Pinterest for inspiration.  My two favorites were a bittersweet wreath and an orange berry wreath. 

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I thought it would be easy to make one.  

All of the DIY methods to make the bittersweet wreath involved finding the plant growing naturally and cutting pieces off.  I have never seen bittersweet growing in Texas, to my knowledge.  So, off to Michael's I went.

I bought a grapevine wreath (~$5), and looked for orange berries or bittersweet branches… Which I could not find (or they had lots of other stuff on the branches with them).  So, I found these orange and yellow sorta iridescent blossom wire sprays that were in bunches and taped together at the bottom. 

I think anything similar would do.

I used about 3 or 4 of these.  They were on sale for $4 each (originally $8.99, I think). Since the grapevine wreath was $5, the whole project was about $20.

I took each sprig apart and then kept playing with it till I liked the way it looked.  I tucked the (ugly) wire end into the wreath and kept tucking the floral part under the branches as I curved it around.  It took less than 30 minutes.  I did not attach or hot glue anything.  And I used twist ties to attach it to my door.