DesignsandEvents: A Wreath for the Barn---Maybe!

Hello, all! Hope you have been enjoying the last bits of spring as summer is quickly approaching. It has been a hodge-podge of a week for me. I think the long weekend (although great!) may have messed me up for getting anything really productive done. I have been a day off---all week! However, I did finally get a project done that I have been meaning to do for weeks.

A few week ago I purchased a ton of silk flowers with the intention of making a wreath for my barn which sits down in the meadow of our property. I usually try to decorate the barn for the changing seasons and wanted to start the spring/summer season off with this wreath. Until now, I hadn't gotten very far in that effort :). I still need to plant flowers in the barn window boxes!!

After having put the wreath together I started to wonder if I really wanted to put it on the barn. I would enjoy it so much more on the front door. Would the wreath show up well enough against the brown paint of the barn? These are things I am considering while I decide its final location.

Until I decide I am loving the look of my new wreath. I love the purple with the blue and the peach and white mixed in. I also love the mixture of the different kinds of greenery I found. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would use all of the silk flowers I purchased but, I did!

I find that to be true with silk flower design as well as fresh floral design. Every project always seems to take more material than you think. I am slowly learning to buy extra :).

I haven't tried hanging the wreath on the barn door yet. It's a little bit of a trek down the hill and it has been raining today. Of course, that is the best way to make my final decision. I should hang it on the barn door to see how it looks! However, until it stops raining I will probably keep the wreath right where it is--on the front door.