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What to Do With All That Summer Beachcombing Driftwood
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ScavengerChic
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I’m so excited to bring you my driftwood wreath today. The reason I’m so excited? This wreath has been at least 6 months in the making.
That is about when I first decided I wanted to make one (it actually may have been longer). So, what has taken me so long? It’s been a long scavenging road. Every time I’m in the woods, on a lake, on a river, on the beach I’m searching for driftwood. After 6 months of searching, what did I have to show for my efforts? About 10 pieces of driftwood in various sizes. I wasn’t even that picky, it didn’t even have to be real driftwood. All it had to be was a nice aged piece of wood.
After six months of searching I finally decided to get serious and visit my local reservoir.
Using a jigsaw and a scrap piece of 3/4″ plywood, cut out a wreath form. My piece was 19 inches wide while the wreath itself was 4 inches all around.
I then sanded the rough edges of the form and stained it so that any bare spots would show up as just a shadow not as a bare piece of wood.
The first layer was nailed on. The remaining layers were applied one at a time around the entire wreath overlapping the previous layer by about half.
Once you get started the wreath comes together really quickly.
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Published August 8th, 2016 7:26 AM
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