Last year I was given a beautiful, live wreath in the shape of a horse head. It was gorgeous and smelled great! Any way, by the time Christmas rolled around the wreath was well past its prime and was begging to be tossed out. On a whim, I decided to pull the withered branches off and keep the wooden horse form. Surely, something could be done with it...
The original horse wreath
Thanksgiving of the next year:
It was finally time to do something about the bare horse form that had been cluttering up my husband's garage. I pulled two rolls of artificial greenery from my Christmas stash (purchased for $1 each at a yard sale) and taught myself how to use our electric staple gun. I feel silly for even admitting to my undeserved fear, but I truly was intimidated by the thought of using a GUN!
$1 rolls of artificial greenery. Yard sales are fantastic!
The bare horse form (Ignore the horsey mustache. I got a little ahead of myself and started stapling greenery before remembering to take the BEFORE picture. Oops!)
As you can see in the picture above, I started at the tip of the horse's nose. The garland actually wraps around the edges of the form and staples into the back. We have a glass window in our door and my husband would kill me if the wooden back on the wreath scratched its trim... so I did this to give it some padding.
I went up the face as far as I could until I could no longer wrap around both the top and bottom. Next, I started at the base of the neck and worked my way up in exactly the same way. Once I had the neat little square of bare wood you can see in the above picture I cut greenery pieces to fit the available space. I was very careful to pull back the greenery of the previous pieces and staple underneath them so the silver staples wouldn't show. I wrapped the tops over the top of the wooden form and stapled to the back of the wreath.
All that was left was the ribbon for the bridle, and tada!
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