How to Make Old-Fashioned Evergreen Wreaths
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to make an old-fashioned evergreen wreath and decorations like the pioneers, using items already growing on your homestead and land or in your home. How to repurpose and reuse them for your homemade holiday decor.
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| 1:25.9 | Welcome to the Pioneering Today podcast with me Melissa K Norris, inspiring your faith and |
| 1:30.8 | your pioneer roots and this is episode number 96 where I am sharing how to make an |
| 1:38.3 | old-fashioned evergreen Christmas wreath. This is part of our homemade homestead Christmas Green Christmas |
| 1:45.0 | series. series and I'm sharing how I make an evergreen wreath |
| 1:49.0 | including all of the pretty and embellishments, |
| 1:52.0 | minus the jute ribbon bow from elements that we've already |
| 1:56.7 | got, things we've already got growing in our landscape and on our land. And I share tips so that you can do that too because that is one of the things |
| 2:06.8 | that the pioneers and the homesteaders of old Excel that, |
| 2:10.5 | was using the things that they already had and then repurposing them or |
| 2:15.0 | turning them in to something else so that's what we're doing today now today's |
| 2:20.0 | episode was a recording of a Facebook live video. |
| 2:23.0 | So the great thing is, is you can actually go and watch me make a wreath |
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