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This year, for the first time in my life, I have a fake Christmas tree. Dan and I will be traveling for the holidays and it didn’t make sense to have a live tree in the house just to get rid of it long before Christmas or come home to a dead tree.
Because of that, I had been yearning for a real wreath for my front door. Linda came across a wreath-making workshop at Intersect Brewing. Proceed from the event benefit FoCo Cafe, a nonprofit pay-what-you-can restaurant.
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Surprise surprise, I had very little idea how a wreath was made. It’s quite labor intensive! We began with forming two sizes of bundles, like those below.
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The bundles are then woven into the wreath frame and secured with wire.
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After two upright bundles are added (as below), a third bundle would be added at a 90-degree angle to cover the stems and add fullness to the wreath.
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Linda and I were some of the first wreath-makers to finish; we spent a bit over two hours at work, including just a few minutes adding simple decorations.
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My wreath is now proudly festooning our door. I opted for a loose and shaggy look; it reminds me of my hair at peak wildness.
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P.S. Wreath-making is not all I got up to this weekend. Dan and I headed down to Denver where I spent six hours in a writing workshop guided by David Rothman.
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The workshop focused on poetic meter (a favorite topic of mine), and resulted in a lot of fascinating whiteboards that looked like this:
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Trust me, it was worth the drive. 🙂
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