My Owl Finally Has a Perch
It's summer and it's hot and I have all these crazy ideas in my head. I saw a FB friend's wreath (which I will share at the end) and it got me thinking about a tin owl that I bought several years ago and never really had a place for it until now.
It's a wonder its horns didn't get bent off the way it was tossed around from place to place.
I already had picked up a wreath frame from the dollar store.
I gathered pine cones from my yard. The funny thing about pine cones that I realized as I worked with them: I could twist off the top and then I had more of a flower-like cone and the top became a rosette.
I laid the owl on the wreath and did a dry run with the pinecones. I realized I would need to attach the owl first.
Before I attached the owl I wired a dollar store ivy bough around the top wire. I thought this would be a good camouflage. Then I wired on the owl.
I started putting on the cones with wire, adjusting as I went. I filled in spots with the rosettes. They really came in handy. I found it a lot easier to thread the wire onto the wreath if I put the wreath over the end of my table so I could grab the wire from underneath.
I wasn't sure where I was going with this wreath so I dug out various silk that I had on hand and a bag of moss. I needed to hide that wire!
A few adjustments with the silk and moss and my owl finally has his perch! Some jute string added to the back made a nice hanger.
Here's the inspirational wreath. I have her permission to share. She has 52 pine cones painted and wired on this wreath! I wasn't that ambitious, but what caught my eye was the way she used the parrot. It's a beautiful creation!
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