I claim no Irish roots, but give me a reason to celebrate, and I am all about it! St. Patty’s Day gives me an excellent excuse to suddenly include beer in all of my recipes and eat a bunch of candy because a sweet little leprechaun left it for me. Now that is my kind of holiday! And because I love to change my décor for no reason at all to match the changing seasons and holidays, I dove right in to making some fun St. Patrick’s day decorations. This wreath is hands down my favorite. I am pretty much in love with it and am debating if I can figure out a way to incorporate it into my daily décor. Spoiler alert…I don’t think I can. I think that it is special enough to be brought out only to celebrate the greenest of all holidays.
While walking through the randomness that is known as Walmart the other day I came across packaged sheets of preserved moss. I didn’t know quite what I would make with it, but at $3.47 a bag, I knew that a couple would be coming home with me. Just think of all of the spring and Easter crafts you could make with this stuff! I continued walking the aisles and finally the idea came to me (seriously, I was standing in the St. Patrick’s Day aisle for like three minutes before it occurred to me) that the beautiful green would be perfect for St. Patty’s. So I ran over to Lowes and picked up a 2 foot by 2 foot piece of oak plywood for $3.50 and headed home full of excitement.
After quickly drawing a four leaf clover on my plywood, I headed out to my garage and cut it out using my jigsaw. I sanded down the edges to make sure that there weren’t any splinters that would attack me while I worked with it and then I painted the wood with a coat of green paint so that I wouldn’t need to worry too much if there were small spots that my moss didn’t cover. After the paint dried, I got to work with my hot glue gun and the moss. Because the moss was in sheets, I had to pull it apart in some places and piece it together, but it was a quick and easy task to glue it all down. I bought a wooden letter from Hobby Lobby and painted it gold and hot glued it right to the middle. The last thing that this beauty needed was a sparkly green ribbon bow to hang it with.
This wreath was created for less than $12, and is just so full of character and holiday spirit. Because the moss is preserved, this wreath should last for years and years if it is well taken care of. As for those recipes with beer in them that I mentioned earlier? Stay tuned as I will be posting them soon!
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Since you used plywood how heavy is it? Did it require anything special to hold it? I think it is beautiful and will hanging from my door soon.
Hi Debbie, my plywood was only 1/4 inch thick, so it weighs very little. I just used my regular wreath door hanger to hang it with. I did attach a Command Strip to the back to keep it from swinging while the door was opening or closing. Hope that helps and I’d love if you would post a picture if you make the wreath.