Before you throw out or donate your old autumn decorations, take inventory, you just may have treasure lurking in that trash. Today I was about to do away with my Autumn Decor bin and just start fresh this year, but then decided to try and make a wreath.
If you are anything like me, you’ve got a hodgepodge of old DIY and randomly bought decorations. I had a TON, more than I even knew or cared to admit. I love buying after season sale items and of course Dollar Tree seasonal decor.
After looking through my bin, I knew I had enough…but I didn’t have a large wreath holder. No problem…I had a pool noodle!
As I’m sure you know these make great wreaths! So I jimmied my pool noodle and was ready to get started.
Now I’ve made wreaths directly on top of pool noodles, but they tend to flake apart and just don’t look great. I had a ton of burlap sack from some old garland and I used that to wrap my noodle. You can also wrap it with ribbon, fabric, pretty much anything, but I do recommend wrapping it.
Now that I have my wreath base, I pulled together all my flowers and random stuff and organized them, getting rid of anything too damaged or random or just weird.
At the end I’m left with 3 piles, a pile of my filler flowers, all the basic sunflowers, leaves and picks (lots of Dollar Tree sunflowers), a pile of the bigger nicer (probably more expensive) flowers (who knows I’ve been compiling this stuff for years), and a pile of my accents (which are my longer stemmed berries, cattails, and grasses).
So let’s get building. I’m going to start with my filler pile. Now I did have some problems poking my stems through the layers of burlap and the noodle, you’re going to want cut your stems with wire clippers at an angle to create a sharp point, this will make it much easier to poke through. just be cautious you aren’t poking through the other side of the noodle. I’m then just adding a dab of glue at the base to reinforce each stem.
And because these are old decorations, I did find myself having to reconstruct some flowers, mix and match pedals and leaves to create bundles.
Now before my wreath gets too filled with filler flowers, I’m going to start placing my bigger more beautiful flowers evenly around my wreath.
I’m leaving a small space at the top of the wreath for my bow. I’m now going to add my accents.
I’m now ready to make my bow, I’ve already measured and cut some pieces of my large burlap. Now because I’m reusing some old garland, this burlap is much thicker than I need, so I’m folding it over and just making it work.
And my bow is complete…
Depending on what you have in your Autumn bin, your bow may need to be a different style or size, get creative and have fun with it.
And here is my finished product, I love my new Autumn wreath, and the best part is that it didn’t cost me a dime and on top of that I’m creating less trash.
I’d love to hear how YOUR autumn bin wreaths turned out, let me know in the comments.