On the door

I have been looking and looking for something I liked for the front door that didn't cost an arm and a leg. It's crazy how expensive pretty wreaths and hanging flower arrangements are! We had a dried wreath on the door last year, but our porch gets a lot of sun and the oils from the eucalyptus dripped constantly and I was always cleaning the glass. I actually just took our Christmas wreath off the door Easter weekend. My mom informed me I wasn't fooling anyone and it needed to go!

I was looking on ETSY for a handmade wreath over the weekend and was still taken back by the prices plus shipping and really just wanted something cute, but inexpensive. I found this, but didn't want to spend $70 on it, so Danny and I went to Michael's in search of something similar.

I thought I should look for a container first and I figured that might be the most expensive part of the project, but I actually found one in their clearance stuff for $6.99. I then started looking for flowers. Danny and I were in the year round section and were drawn to the dried and realistic looking flowers, butwe quickly realized this was only going to get way expensive. I asked a girl there for help and told her I was looking for lavender and Hyacinth, but we could only find 2 stems of the lavender and no Hyacinth. I took the lavender and she suggested using 2 bunches of the daisy, purple, grassy mix (technical term here.) We picked up a little green Styrofoam block to put in the container to stuff the flowers in and we only spent $20. This also included a pack of water guns for the kids.

So, it's no fancy, but we like it!