Easter Wreath for our Daughter

My daughter asked for an Easter wreath for her front door.  She wanted it to include something religious and and also with bunnies.  

I had seen some wreaths wrapped with burlap at JoAnn's so I decided that was my beginning point.  I found the bottle brush style bunny there and I bought a variety of silk flowers.

I almost forgot to mention that the inspiration for using the cross came from a post by Jemma from At Home With Jemma.  This is the link to the post "here".

 I looked around at Michael's and JoAnn's but had no luck finding a cross.  I ended up ordering from Hobby Lobby.  I chose two because I couldn't be sure which would work.

 As it turns out this cross is really too heavy so I couldn't use it so I gave it to her because it comes with a wall mounting hook.  One of the things I quickly learned while building this is the weight of the cross was a bit tricky to work with.

To start with I used wire to fix the cross to the foam based wreath.

 Once it was snugged up the wires were trimmed and bent over to poke back into the foam. I secured it in three places.  I just don't trust glue to hold up for something like this.

The foam wreath is also covered with straw on the body and then covered with the burlap.

Hubby helped with this.  He bent the wire and slowly pushed it through the body of the bunny. 

The back hook was created the same way with a curved piece of wire going through the foam and then a hook and loop was created to secure it.  We held the wreath up using a finger to balance it on to decide where the hook should go.  It had to be placed off center in order for it to hang correctly.

 Then I cut apart the daffodils which had a hard wire stem and started placing them.

My thoughts for what I used to create this were about the different aspects of Easter.  The cross/crucifix, eggs and flowers representing rebirth of life and the Easter bunny.   

I played with different ideas- poking in more flowers and some eggs.  

 Eventually I decided on these two eggs because they matched the colors in the viola flowers I placed below the bunny.

There were only 3 bunches of them so I took them all.

I also stuffed moss up underneath the flowers and under the bunny after I had secured everything.  Once I had everything poked in and secured I worked the flowers and greens into position.

I pinned some carrots up top but using a bow seemed to be what I was really headed for.

It's hard to get a good picture on my entryway door with the glass so I hung this on a bedroom door to see how it looked.  I had some stock on the pretty yellow wired ribbon that ended up being used.  I kind of wish I had made the cross white so I told her it could be changed if she wanted.  We drove down to see her and deliver this over the weekend.

We too her to dinner before we went back home.  

Our daughter purchased a 1940's bungalow late last year and it has a cute little covered porch.  There are daffodils and tulips pushing up through the ground from the previous owner.  Life is reemerging.

 I picked up a copper colored over the door wreath holder which blended in with the current door color nicely.   

 Blessings to all of you at this Easter time.

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