Vintage Ornament Wreath

Ornament_wreath

This morning, I’m in New York City doing something called a Satellite Media Tour.  Basically, it’s me in a TV studio talking via satellite to lots of local TV stations all over the country.   Leave me a comment if you caught me this morning!! Would love to hear.    I basically do this tour every year with the non-profit Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation, asking people to remember to recycle their old cell phones and old rechargeable batteries during the holiday season.   I also am sharing my green holiday giving and decorating tips during the tour.

But that said, I wanted to post this photo of a holiday wreath I saw at a store in Lambertville, NJ called Monkey Hill.     I stopped by the store the other Sunday to pick up holiday gifts for my friends and left with lots of exquisite handmade soaps, candles and other gift sets.       This wreath really caught my eye.

This wreath is made entirely from vintage holiday ornaments of all types: glass balls, bells, even burnt-out vintage string lights.   They are all carefully hot glued together on a wood circular frame.  The whole thing is super light and very cool.

I’m going to attempt to make one of these with random bits of holiday stuff I have in storage and around the house.   I think I’ll need quite a bit of hot glue sticks to finish this.

8 Comments

  1. Krista says:

    lovely – i’ve seen this done before using a lighter styrofoam wreath form… either way, i just love the effect.

  2. Oona L says:

    ~~What a pretty wreath. You should show us a step by step process of how you did it. I would love to make one too!! I am pretty crafty this year and hoping to be more crafty next year!! :) Love it though it is really pretty.

  3. Val says:

    I have made several of these wreaths – super easy, and quite affordable when you purchase the ornaments at thrift stores!
    I used a styrofoam wreath form (also purchased at a thrift store), as it is lighter, and a hot glue gun.
    I’m finding that with the wreath made 2 years ago, some of the ornaments have loosened, so there might be a better adhesive to try – wonder how rubber cement might work?

  4. Sandy says:

    Awesome! What did we do before hot glue?

  5. Jen R says:

    This is very cool, and what a way to use left over “orphan” ornaments.
    Jen R

  6. Emily says:

    That is beautiful.

  7. charlotte says:

    Please add me to your mail list

  8. jane says:

    is this wreath made of ornaments for sale?
    i am looking for one!!!