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Making A Festive Wreath

Ensure guests feel extra special this Christmas by welcoming them with a beautiful homemade wreath.

Revel in the meditative ritual of choosing and gathering any number of key ingredients such as winter berries, pine cones, pussy willow, feathers, mistletoe, ribbon, cinnamon sticks, dried orange slices and foliage, real or faux.

Making rather than buying a festive wreath unlocks the freedom to co-ordinate it with the colour of the front door or make a boldly clashing style statement, allowing the wreath to reflect its maker, whether exuberant or petite and picture perfect.

Start with a circular wire frame, a ready-made base, or a homemade circle of flexible branches such as weeping willow stripped of its leaves. Use