Faux Boxwood Wreath Wall Art

 

I hope everyone is having a great Monday! We're having major thunder storms here in the KC area this week so I have been dodging rain showers while trying to get flowers planted and decided to come inside for a bit and finish a project I started a while ago.

As you may remember, we stared redoing our master bedroom a few months ago when we decided to totally switch the color scheme to a "greige" color.

 

Now that we have most of the bedding, I have been working on creating a little wall art for our newly painted space.

 

 

I was inspired by all of those gorgeous boxwood wreaths I have seen around lately, so I decided to create something with a similar look.

 

 

 

 

I really love the look of those boxwood wreaths you see everywhere, but they are so darn expensive so I decided to let out my inner thrifty chick and try to recreate my own version of a boxwood wreath.

 

 

And here is what I came up with-

I had this heart shaped twig formation for a while now that I got at a thrift store for about $0.50 cents.

 

 

 

I was also VERY happy to find not one, but TWO, long strands of chained greenery at the thrift store for $1.99 each!

 

(oh yeah!)

If you do not know what that is, take a look.

It is greenery that you can drape along something like a table or fireplace, or you can wrap it around something because it is attached to a chain like this.

 

 

 

See the chain? This picture is from Hob Lob, and each strand runs $9.99! That's basically $20 bucks for two strands of greenery!

Luckily, I found mine at the GW for $1.99 each.

So for less than $5 bucks I have two strands of garland AND the twig wreath form. 

 

So wrap your greenery around he formation like this.....

 

 

 

 

 

Now, my greenery is not boxwood but it looks very similar.

 

The leaves on my greenery are rounded like the boxwood leaves and the colors are very similar too, so it was the perfect greenery for my project! 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, attach your new wreath to a piece of white bead board with one of those peel and stick hooks like so.

 

For added interest I stenciled the word LOVE with a heart onto my bead board.

 

 

 

 

 

And here is the finished product hanging on the wall with those adhesive strips.

 

This is the beginning of a full wall collage that I am working on, but for now this is the only piece that is up and I hope to have more time to work on it this weekend.

 

 

I have the rest of the wall to finish but this is it for now!

 

Once the rain subsides I will be back outside to work in the yard.

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed my faux boxwood wreath wall art.

 

It is so easy to make...in fact it can be done in a half hour while you are stuck inside from the rain!

 

 

Have a fabulous week!

 

 

 

Jennifer

 

 

 

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A Walk Around the Front Yard

Well, here in Kansas City we just had a fluke snowstorm on May 1st so we're just now getting used to the Spring weather that the rest of you have probably enjoyed for a few months now.

 

I was worried that my tulips would not survive but they held on like troopers and looked great!

Here is a picture of my red tulips. I planted these back in the fall of 2006 and they come up every year like clock work and are so bright and cheery to look at in the Spring after a long cold winter.

 

I took these pictures a little late in the blooming season for these. As you can see the blooms are fully open. I like them best when they just start to bloom, but they are still very pretty and you can see their gorgeous black and yellow centers.

 

Here is a side view. I always think it looks like they're dancing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here are more red tulips I planted in this planter I got from Home Depot for a steal last fall. They are a different variety from the ones in the yard but they are also red and add a pop of color against my white house.

 

 

 

And then there are my purple Iris.

They are special to me because they came out of my Grandpa's yard.

 

Back in 2007 he needed his thinned out so I dug up several clumps and transplanted them at my house. 

 

This bunch really took off too. They love the full sun that this space offers.

 

 

 

I cleaned out the dead leaves from last year's blooms and laid fresh mulch too.

 

Just like my Grandpa had to do, this past fall I separated them because they were crowding this area and it looked like I wasn't getting as many blooms as I had before, so I am glad to see them coming up so healthy this year and I hope they produce a lot of flowers!

 

Then over here, closer to the house we have a lime and fuscia pink spirea.

When I bought the house in 2006 this space was empty and muddy. It was gross, so I added the pavers, planted the clumps of Lirope and I used to have live forever planted but it grew too large too fast and attracted WAY too many bees to be so close to the house so I moved them and planted this Spirea about two years ago.

 

 

 

I'm not sure how I feel about it yet. The colors don't really go with the rest of my landscaping but it is a healthy plant and softens this corner up, so for now it stays.

 

 

And who doesn't like small hanging basket of Pansies?

 

 

 

There are also a few Daffodils planted in his space as well, and this year they turned out gorgeous!

 

I LOVE their yellow centers!

 

 

 

And here is a side view from the driveway. Everything is coming along nicely despite the SNOW STORM in May!

 

The last time that happened here was in 1907!

 

 

 

As you can see the trees and the rest of the landscaping has not bloomed yet, but it will all be fully here in about a week or two.

 

 

 

And there ya have it! A little walk around the front yard. I will post more pics as things begin to bloom.

 

Spring is such a wonderful time with the birds chirping and all of the gorgeous tulips and daffodils blooming....such a relief to see after such a long winter too.

 

What a wonderful time of the year.

 

 

 

Have a fabulous weekend everyone!

 

 

Jennifer

 

 

 

 

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