It's completely silver, with silver sparkles and those little dark spots you see are mirrors (it looks much prettier in person!) It only had two problems with it: it had glitter (which worked on this piece, but in general drives me insane) and it was $30.Now, maybe that's not a crazy price, but I'm on a budget and can't afford that much for a decoration. So I decided to make my own! I spent $7.50 at the craft department at Wal*mart: berry garland ($5), silver spray paint ($1.12), and sparkle pieces ($1.44).
At home, I assembled the garland in a wreath like form, and added some dried vines that I cut from the grape plant in our front lawn using some craft wire. I then spray painted the whole thing silver, and added some mirror pieces with hot glue!
It's not exact, and it's not as full, but I think it's just as pretty if not prettier! The berries which are not present in the Target wreath create a great reflection because of their shape, and it totally makes up for the lack of glitter!
I wish I had taken some in progress picture, but that's what I always seem to forget!
P.S. this post was written like 2 weeks ago... I was just too lazy to add the pictures at that time!
1 comment:
It looks lovely! I've been waiting for this post. : ) You discard the pard of the facebook message I wrote on your wall concerning the wreath- I wrote it this morning, not realizing that you had posted!! : )
You're so creative Miss Laura!
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