Pink and White Spring Wreath

I make a new DIY Spring wreath each year for my front door.  I try to make them different each year, but always in bright colored flowers and fun items.  Making new wreaths is fun for me, and I enjoy the process.  However, during the height of the pandemic, I struggled to be creative. This post is how I ended up remaking this wreath several times before I liked it.  

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The struggle with this wreath was so real! I have taken it apart and remade it at least three times, and it is still not how I envision it! But I finally got a version I could like and am willing to hang it up for a few weeks at my back entrance. Below is how I finally finished my pink and white spring wreath for this season.

I am not the only one struggling with a lack of creativity and motivation during this quarantine.  I start making something, but can’t keep my interest beyond the first steps.  This wreath has been a challenge for me this time around.

To be honest, these days, I have wanted to sit in my big comfy chair and cross-stitch all day while watching Hallmark movies.

It’s not that it would be a bad thing, but at the end of the isolation, I would either have some great finished pieces of cross stitch or keep my blog going and walk the dogs daily. The last two won out.

Anyone who has visited my blog more than once knows that I enjoy making new wreaths for my main entrance for every season and holiday. So, of course, I planned one for this Spring as well, which, in my mind, was pink, simple, and a bit different. 

Instead of making something with a wire wreath form and burlap or ribbon, I decided to make a grapevine wreath. It’s just something a little bit more rustic, with lots of full flowers—pink tulips—and a very simple bow.

I had a vision of what it would look like, but it didn’t work out as I had envisioned.

Thankfully, with a grapevine wreath, you don’t have to attach the flower stems with hot glue; you can just insert the stems through the branches of the grapevine form.

Later, there were lots of big blooming pink and purple-ish tulips and a simple bow, and I just didn’t like it. 

Still, it just needed something more.

Searching through my craft stash, I came across a small wooden, unpainted bench I had had for years, and thought—this will work! 

I painted it a shade of grass green and put it on the wreath with hot glue. Grass green is the only green color I had available in my stash during this time. Going to the store for just a small bottle of paint wasn’t an essential errand, so I used what I had on hand. I put the wreath together with the small bench attached to it and left it on the craft table for a few days to finish it up.

But I still wasn’t crazy about this wreath.

A few days later, I went through the stash of flowers we purchased for my daughter’s almost-wedding in March (yes, we had to move it to August instead) and added some simple white floral stems to the wreath. 

It was getting better.

The white flowers improved the wreath, so I left it hanging in our dining room for nearly two weeks.

Every day I would look at it, and every day I would wonder why I didn’t like it.

It wasn’t that the wreath was bad overall; it just didn’t have the look I had planned.

Maybe I don’t like grapevine wreaths and never realized it? Perhaps it really was the extra-large pink tulip stems?  I wanted smaller ones, but those were sold out.

This week, I finally had enough.

At this rate, it would be summer before I fell in love with this wreath, so I took it down and took it completely apart, except for the bench, which was glued on. It was time to start over.

Sometimes you have to start all over to get it right.

Pulling out more flowers from the stash of wedding floral we didn’t use, I started with white Ranunculus stems and greenery instead of the large pink tulips. I honestly think the large pink tulips just weren’t my thing all along.

A lesson learned from this project: When buying floral stems, if you don’t love them, don’t buy them. I thought I could make them work with the idea in my head, but I found out that just wasn’t the look I wanted.

The white flowers finally gave the right look.  I like this version of the pink and white spring wreath, or at least enough to hang it outside at the door.

Sometimes you must try several times to get the right look for a project.

I used just a few of the pink tulips as accent colors to go with the pink bow. Since I am staying safe at home, a trip for a different color of ribbon was put on hold, too. I used what I had on hand for this wreath, including the grapevine form. I bought it months ago and never made the first wreath I had in mind for it.

Now, my entrance finally has a Spring wreath to greet the delivery drivers, who are the only people who show up at my house these days.

In the end, it is actually a pretty wreath, and I still wanted to share it with my readers. I hope everyone enjoys this simple pink and white wreath and is encouraged to keep working at something until they like it.

Evidently, the small birds seem to like it. Just two days after hanging it up, I found evidence of the beginnings of a small nest. You have to love nature!

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Enjoy your day,

Proverbs 16:4 “The Lord has made everything for its purpose.”

If you liked this project, here are a few more to enjoy:

How To Make Your Own DIY Spring Tulip Wreath

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