It’s the end of the year and seeing as the covid situation wasn’t terrible we decided to meet (of course the Omicron variant shortly thereafter made itself known!)
Our hostesses for December were Vicki, Katie and Charlotte who did a great job decorating tables and bringing food offerings in the spirit of the season.
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- Lanterns on tables
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- Festive branches
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- Sweets table
As we often do for this holiday, a Christmas workshop was planned around the procurement of evergreens from everyone’s yards to be shared amongst those with fewer offerings. Members pruned away spruces, pines, hollies, Nandina, cedars and sundry other interesting plants and berries suitable for making wreaths, swags or other items for display.
Diane offered to teach us how she selects and arranges materials for wreaths and how to secure and decorate them.
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- Mil and Diane inspecting piles of different evergreens
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- Diane shows how she constructs each section
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- Brenda brings over some interesting cones to attach
Here are some samples of what members made:
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- Arrangement in a basketry door pocket
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- Red berries in one area have ribbon effect
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- A small sleigh with greenery
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- Rusticity–Greens wired to an old log!
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- Dried grasses are interesting
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- Bejeweled pears on a tray of green
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- Wreath with some store-bought boot additions
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- Tiny cones on a clumb of varied evergreens
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- The yellows pop out of all the green
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- A Christmas table centerpiece
Lovely use of material–look at the half cones!s
