I am not a fan of winter, and always dread taking down Christmas décor.  Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the clean feel after all of Christmas is put away, but I despise the bare feeling.  And here in PA, the fact that it will be a long time before the warmth returns is just not my favorite thought. Ok, I must admit I don’t have all of Christmas put away…I still have one tree up and fully decorated! 🙂  It was on my to-do list last weekend and I didn’t get it done, maybe sometime this week.

But, I imagine you aren’t here to hear about Christmas, you are here for some Winter inspiration.  I’m one of 25 bloggers, who are choosing to Celebrate Winter this week.   I’ve already seen some of their great inspiration this week, and can’t wait to see the rest of the posts this week.

I’m not a huge winter decorator, but I do love to have a wreath on my front door year-round and I have made it a habit of making new wreaths regularly.   The idea for my winter wreath came to me before Christmas when I was shopping at Lancaster Creative Reuse and found some great wintery leaves and beautiful magnolia flowers.  The magnolias were a little pricey for my tastes ($1 each), but I really liked them.  And, I knew if they were in a huge bunch with the full stems that I would have paid more.  I think the frosty branches were $1.25.  Just ignore the little white wispy flowers and pinecones in the picture below…I didn’t end up using them.

The wreath was in my supplies; I’m sure I spent 50 cents or a dollar on it at a yard sale.

The vines and flowers were glued on and I just pulled them off.  The glue came right off with it.

Then, as I was trying to figure out how I wanted to start with the leaves, I realized they were actually just connected with a stem and loop, and could easily be separated into 2 pieces.

I took the 2 sets of branches/leaves and tucked them into the grapevine wreath.

Then, I just started putting the magnolias on the wreath in between the leaves.

This was about as easy as you can get for a wreath.  I didn’t even attach a loop to hang it, I just stuck it right on my wreath hanger on the door.

I like the combination of the bright white flowers that hint of the warm weather to come, mixed with the icy leaves and acorns.

The wreath is quite full for only 7 pieces stuck in it, and just about $7 in supplies and a few minutes of my time.

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