Fresh Christmas Wreath For The Front Door: Half Pine Cones Half Greenery

Here is a simple, beautiful, and very natural looking wreath to welcome guests to your front door. It’s a combo of pine cones and greenery. You can add fabric, lace, and ribbon to spruce it up.

You will need:

• Grapevine wreath
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks
• An assortment of greenery like arborvitae, cedar, pine, juniper, etc…to create your greenery bundles
• Red twigs like wild rose stems with rose hips or other skinny and interesting shaped twigs.
• Natural brown pine cones varying sizes.
• Red and white fabric, lace, and ribbon

I am always looking for new wreath ideas to hang on my front door. Nothing says, “Welcome to our home” like a beautiful fresh wreath. I wanted to create a wreath I could hang on the front door to usher in Thanksgiving and Christmas. If you hang this type of wreath outside it can last for a couple of months or more if you live in cold weather. I have lots of greenery in my yard and lots of pinecones. Pinecones and greenery go perfectly together but here is a new twist. Pinecones on one side and greenery on the other. Then accessorize and there you go. Like holiday magic!

Grapevine Wreath

Buy a grapevine wreath the size you want to hang on your door. Make sure it is in proportion with your porch and front door. If you have a tall or large door you will want a large grapevine wreath. If your home is smaller and your porch is smaller, you may want a medium size grapevine wreath. Don’t use a small wreath if you can help it because it will look small and out of proportion to your home if you are hanging it on your front door.

Choosing Greenery

I am a self taught florist and have learned to love and use greenery that I have growing in my front yard. Some greenery lasts longer than others and I’ve learned this through lots of practice. If you want to test out greenery that grows in your landscape and see if it is durable, pick or clip off a piece of it and put it in a safe place in your yard where you can check it over the next couple of days. Sometimes I can tell just by setting greenery on my counter as to how fast it wilts or how sturdy it is.

Here are the types of greenery I put in bundles to attach to my wreath.

• Juniper (I have waaaaay too much of this green growing in my yard but it makes great filler on a wreath. There are different types of juniper too so play with what looks best in the greenery bundles you will be making for your wreath.
• Arborvitae (I love the bright green type of this that grows in my yard in a couple of different spots.
• Cedar. This can work as a filler too. It’s greenery I don’t want to call it leaves but it’s short and stubby so I don’t use this on top of my greenery bouquets, piles whatever you want to call it.
• Pine. I have loads of different shades of pine in my yard. I know. I feel truly blessed. I wanted this wreath to have more of a grass green color to it than the silver pines you can use. It is up to you though. Create the look you want. If you have blue spruce and want to put that in your greenery bundles go for it.
• Twigs. You want to use skinny and long twigs for your wreath because it will look better than thick and chunky twigs. In winter, I have wild rose bushes whose stems turn red and with the first chill of winter, they have rose hips on them. I like the added weird round shapes on the rose stems because they add interest to a wreath. Brown twigs are great too or spray paint twigs, white, gold, silver, whatever suits your fancy.

Glue For Your Wreath Project

I bought a gorilla mini glue gun a few months back and it has worked well with my craft projects. (No financial gain by sharing this info by the way.) I use hot glue and glue sticks a bunch when crafting. Gorilla glue sticks and glue gun are reliable and worked well for gluing on my pine cones. You can use what you have on hand but this is the best little glue gun I’ve used and I’ve gone through quite a few glue guns in my time ha ha before using this brand.

Gathering Twigs For Your Wreath

I like to incorporate twigs into a wreath because it adds more texture and visual interest. I suggest you stick to skinny and long type twigs. I have wild roses that grow in several places in my large yard. There is only one spot in my yard though that the stems turn a reddish color. I don’t know why that is because they are exactly the same type of wild rose that grows across throughout my yard. I didn’t plant these. They were here when we bought our home. The red twigs intrigue me though. I think they are really cool and add another accent to my wreath. After putting my wreath together, I wound a long thin twig around my pine cones and layered them different heights in my greenery bundles. I secured them in my wreath with hot glue.

Pine Cones

I have lots of pine cones that fall off all the various types of pine trees we have growing in our yard. I gather them all year long because I use them for lots of projects. I think pine cones are not only naturally beautiful they just add so much to a wreath. This type of wreath especially because you will cover one side of your wreath with them. You will need a variety of shapes and sizes to put on your wreath. If you don’t have pine cones available to you, find them online or check your local craft store.

Craft Your Wreath

Over the summer, I picked up a lot of pinecones that dropped from our pine trees. I put them in a bucket outside. I remembered them suddenly when it started snowing and raining. I brought the wet pinecones inside and spread them out on some newspaper I had laid on the floor by a vent to dry. Have you ever noticed how tight pine cones close when they are wet. It took several days for them to completely dry. Once they dry, they open up.

Start gluing pinecones to one side of your wreath. Glue them on top of each other and underneath. Anywhere that your grapevine wreath will show when hanging up. You should cover the entire right or left side of your wreath whichever side you choose. Glue little ones on top of the big pine cones.

Make Greenery Bundles

I like to lay my greenery on my dining room floor. My dining room floor is wooden so it’s easy to clean when I am done with the branches. Lay your greenery in piles. That makes it easy to grab a short branch from each pile and then wrap wire around the bottom of the bundle. Lay the first bundle of greenery where your pine cones start at the top of your wreath. Wire it to your grapevine wreath. Rinse repeat or in other words make another bundle. Keep going until you’ve filled the side of the wreath with greenery on it. Once the side is filled you may have to fill your wreath in here and there with extra greenery.

Add Your Twigs

Twigs can be glued in on top of pine cones and tucked into the greenery. Arrange them the way you want them to look on your wreath. Think long and think skinny. They don’t have to be red. It’s nice if you can bend them without breaking so you can wind them in different places on your wreath.

Wreath Accents

You can add jingle bells, snowflakes, etc… I just wanted a natural looking wreath for my front door. I do like long fabric tails, ribbon, and lace hanging from the middle of my wreath though. It finishes a wreath off. When I saw this Riley Blake fabric, I had to have some. It’s titled, ” Red Is Not Just A Color.” I love the red crosses which reminds me of the Swiss Cross. It also has a nordic look to it. So do as you please with your accents. Make this a fun project that will help you release some stress and take some time for yourself. Then hang your wreath proudly on your front door or gate to welcome in Thanksgiving and Christmas.

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