The materials for this wreath cost me $40.00, but unlike the green wreath I usually make every year from the bottom branches of my Christmas tree, I will be able to reuse this wreath for a couple of years. With the way I put it together, even if some of the dried floral material gets a little "ratty-looking" from storage I will be able to take that material off and replace it.
The first thing I did with my materials was to remove them from their wrappers and lay them out. The next thing was to unwrap the berry garland very carefully as the "berries" are on very thin wire and can fall off quite easily -- the same goes for the tiny jingle bell garland -- you will loose some of the berries no matter how careful you are, but in the end the few that end up falling off will not be that noticeable.
Next, I took my grapevine wreath and laid the berry garland on top of it in a circular fashion. Then I snipped lengths of the floral wire to use as twist ties to fasten the garland to the wreath. I did the same with the bell garland. Be sure that when clipping off pieces of the floral wire to use as twist ties you cut them long enough to be able to work with them. You can always go back later when you are satisfied with the placement to trim the ends.
