Every year for Christmas my sister-in-law Mary makes me a wreath. She gathers the greens and the other decorations herself and always comes up with something spectacular.
This year, she has outdone herself. Thanks, Mary.
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Oh, how very pretty! I especially love the feathers.
What a beautiful wreath and what a lovely tradition!
That is beautiful.! My mother made wreaths every year for me, her sister, ex-sister-in-law and one for herself too to hang on our doors outside. She used grapevines as her foundation frame and added various evergreens (firs, incence cedar, juniper), boxwood, pine cones, small brass bells, a few tiny Christmas gold balls, a head of garlic for health, various wooden carved animals (toads, ducks), dried lotus blossom seed heads, winterberry all held together with floral wire. Then she added a bow usually wide wired velveteen ribbon and never in that gawdy Christmas red that one finds- shades of plum, deep rose or maroon. When I cleaned her house out I found all her wreath making supplies. She showed me her method of constructing the wreaths last year and I hope to carry on that tradition starting next year.
What an awesome wreath! Such an awesome siser-in-law, too!
What a beautiful wreath! SIL is certainly talented and thoughful to make a a lovely tradition like that.
Oh Carole that is a beautiful wreath. Your SIL is so talented and kind. You sure are lucky to have her!
that is a gorgeous wreath. and manise needs her own blog, look at how long her ccomments are!
That wreath is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen. It really looks like Christmas!
Lovely wreath. That house ain’t got nothing on some of the beauties around here. MA is way too tame. Kevin likes that Yuengling beer also. I am a Michelob girl. 🙂 Have a great weekend.
Oh, you’re obviously a good person to deserve that lovely tradition and even lovelier wreath!
That’s beautiful. I love the dried roses.
I love it-every time you look at it you notice something new!
That is so pretty!
She is crafty, and good at it. Lucky you!
That’s gorgeous, C. What a fantastic gift.
It’s beautiful! What a lot of work she did one it. I tried to make a wreath myself this year for the first time and it was not as easy as I’d thought. My result is nowhere near as nice as that one!
You are very lucky! That is a gorgeous wreath.
Wow, that’s really cool!
What a beautiful and thoughtful thing for your SIL to do not just for your but for your whole family. I’m sure everyone really enjoys having the wreath and looks forward to receiving it each year.
Great comments – great commenters – I’m really laughing about Manise needing her own blog. hehe
Indeed! That is a *gorgeous* wreath!
That is just stunning.
Such a special gift – and a beautiful tradition. I imagine that it smells wonderful! Enjoy!
Wow, Mary’s very talented. Beautiful wreath!
I love it. Your sister in law she should go into business.
Wow! Dried roses, feathers…so beautiful!
The feathers are SUCH a nice touch! I’ve never seen them in a wreath before. I like it! 🙂
Holy cow, that is beautiful!
Wow, just beautiful!
What a beautiful job she did on the wreath!
Oh, jeez, that wreath is beautiful! Puts mine to SHAME!
talented s.i.l. ! what a lovely gift Carole 🙂
lots of applause to her – it’s a beauty.
Absolutely beautiful! That reminds me…I need to take a walk…
What a gorgeous wreath. It’s wonderful of your SIL to share her talent like that!
absolutely beautiful
Gorgeous. Mary is very talented.
I already admired your pretty wreath, I know, but:
You are tagged, dear. Go read my blog.
What a beautiful and thoughtful gift!
Gorgeous and she’s very talented.
Beautiful! I used to do stuff like that. No time lately….
gorgeous!!!
oooh! Does Mary want to adopt another SIL? That wreath is absolutely gorgeous!
That’s BEAUTIFUL!
That’s beautiful! I’ve never seen feathers in a wreath before. What a fantastic tradition.
What a beautiful tradition – how nice of her and the wreath is gorgeous.
What an absolutely beautiful wreath this is – the feathers give it such a unique and amazing touch! Fantastic work!
kucky you! that is gorgeous!
Oh wow, that’s beautiful! I wish I could make pretty things like that — too often I just end up with a mess of a glue and some construction paper and pine cones in a little heap. Mary’s got a talent.
What a breathtaking wreath! That is great talent!