Make a Spring Wreath
Make a Spring Wreath
You’re probably familiar with Christmas and Funeral wreaths – and I thought we’d go all-in with a Spring Wreath.
Making wreaths for your door dates back to the Ancient Greeks.
They would hang them as symbols for things like victory in battle, honour, status – and even if there was a pregnancy in the household.
In our Spring
(which marked the beginning of their new year)
they would hold a lavish festival – called Anthesteria.
It would flow with wine, food and wreaths were everywhere.
Reports were that people stayed drunk for over a week!
Homes and public buildings would be decorated with wreaths, people would wear them on their heads and bodies, and they’d be covered in fruit, flowers, foliage, and fabric.
By today’s standards, we would say that Anthesteria was totally ‘extra’.
(I feel as though I would have been friends with the Ancient Greeks at school. They knew how to have a good time.)
Bringing the outside inside is something the rest of Europe has done since at least the 16th Century.
This is when the first record of the German Christmas Tree and wreath traditions. (Danke shon, Germany).
We see this in Scandinavia too (who I always think of as the cool kids of the World), foliage displays are thought of as very Hygge.
Modern Scandi wreaths are less ‘extra’ and more effortlessly stylish, with their minimal approach to design.
Scandinavian Spring wreaths are often bedecked with simple coloured ribbons and flowers – definitely worth a Google; simply gorgeous.
Today’s inspiration is to create your own Spring Wreath for your front door.
You will need:
- Some kind of wreath base
you can buy purpose-made ones in craft shops – or you could, perhaps fashion a hanger or two into a circular shape.
- Colourful Spring-themed items to decorate it with.
I’ve seen vintage seed packages used, fake flowers, tiny flower pots, obviously fake flowers, chicks, rabbits, bunting, bells, ribbons, and gingham – there aren’t really any rules.
Pinterest is an incredible source of inspiration for this.
If you have no front porch consider waterproof decorations, or at least things that won’t go soggy.
Your front door will be the talk of the street, especially if you make it brilliantly bonkers