
Want a little something extra to decorate your house this Christmas? You can whip one of these pretty wreathes out in the time it takes to watch It's A Wonderful Life. Or Elf. Or Home Alone. Or Love Actually. Or basically, any holiday movie that you haven't gotten to watch yet.
Supplies:
Styrofoam wreath
two different spools of thick, fancy ribbon in complementary colors and designs*
branches, birds, doilies, fabric scraps, or other little pretties you want to use to decorate your wreath*
several straight pins
hot glue gun (optional)
* These holiday themed items are probably already on sale at this point!
Step One: Wrap your ribbon around your entire wreath. Secure both the starts and the ends of it with straight pins. You can use more straight pins through out the wreath if you feel it's necessary for the texture of ribbon you chose. The ribbons I chose didn't need any extra help staying put.

(See the three tiny pins? Be sure you insert all of your pins on the back side of your wreath so no one can see them.)
Step 2: Decorate the bottom inner portion of your wreath. Since I used birds in both of my wreaths, I decided to make my bases look like little nests. I found this to be the most time consuming step in my wreath making- mostly because I kept rearranging everything!
Look #1


Star by placing a doily over the bottom of the wreath. Pin it into place by using pretty/vintage sewing pins. Fold a piece of wired ribbon into a pretty shape. Pin it into the wreath with your straight pins. Attach some sparkly branches either by bending the wire base and poking it into the wreath, or by hot glue gun. Attach the real branch with the glue gun. Attach the bells by twisting a small piece of wire around the top loop of the bell and poking it into the wreath. Position birds and attach them either by hot glue gun or by their wire bases (if applicable).

(Top view.)
Look #2:


Attach the sparkly branches either by wire or hot glue gun. In this case, I wrapped very long sparkly branches around the birds to create a little "nest effect." Attach the birds as mentioned above.

Bow: To add a bow to the top of your wreath, start by wrapping a piece of ribbon all the way around the top of your wreath. (Check out the image above to get a good idea of what I am talking about.) Pin it in place.
Tie a big, pretty bow with two long tails. Then, take another small piece of ribbon and wrap it around the front knot of the bow. Pin these two aspects of the bow in place.

Mold your tails into a pretty shape. Attach them to your wreath with.... pins! Are you seeing the pattern yet? ; )

See how you can hide the pins under the folds of the ribbon?
Step 3: Hang, and enjoy! I made my green wreath "hangable" by pinning another piece of ribbon to the top back of the wreath. I hang it by stapling the ribbon to the top inside of my door- a technique I learned from Elise last year.
Tips:
If you are attaching something by the "poky wire" method, make sure the wire is not so long that it will go straight through the wreath. Trim if necessary.
Make sure that your base arrangement looks good from several perspectives (straight on and from slightly above)
Let some of your branches fall off the back of the wreath as well as the front for a more dimensional effect.