{"id":797,"date":"2009-11-18T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2009-11-18T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:05:09","slug":"countdown-to-chrismas-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Christmas- Crafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"238\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"357\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Making a boxwood wreath from the clippings from the hedge in Chincoteague was our recreation while at Meredith&#8217;s house.&nbsp; We started with a grapevine wreath for the base and then jammed as many long pieces of boxwood into the frame that would fit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"249\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image_thumb3.png\" width=\"373\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we made smaller bunches of the tips and magnolia leaves and pods, hydrangea flowers and rosemary bunches and rosehips growing around the beds at the house, and using a paddle of wire wrapped them tightly around the wreath base ,&#8221;taming&#8221; some of the wilder branches of boxwood we had jammed in previously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"250\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image_thumb4.png\" width=\"375\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We layered the bunches and the decorative pieces around the wreath to make it look well covered and uniformly designed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"249\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/heidiannie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/image_thumb5.png\" width=\"373\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Then added a bow and it was ready to hang.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.snapfish.com\/viewsharedphoto\/p=107181258569725232\/l=2272036022\/g=1243515022\/otsc=SYE\/otsi=SPIC\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"248\" alt=\" Click to View My Photo \" src=\"http:\/\/www2.snapfish.com\/getimageforshare\/p=107181258569725232\/l=2272036022\/s=227858022\/t=PIC\/g=1243515022\/otsc=SYE\/otsi=SPIC\" width=\"374\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And we used it to decorate the mantle of the fireplace in the dining room. <\/p>\n<p>Making a boxwood wreath is REALLY easy!&nbsp; All you need is a base wreath, a paddle of medium green florist&#8217;s wire, Lots of boxwood, and some design items to add.&nbsp; Look around your yard and see what kind of materials you can make into a beautiful wreath.&nbsp; It really is a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Making a boxwood wreath from the clippings from the hedge in Chincoteague was our recreation while at Meredith&#8217;s house.&nbsp; We started with a grapevine wreath for the base and then jammed as many long pieces of boxwood into the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/?p=797\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.heidiannie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}