Dried Lavender Wreaths

Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.
Rossiter Worthington Raymond

When someone loses a dear one from their life one of the most caring and kind ways to express your sympathy for the deceased family is through a condolence wreath. Death is not an easy term to discuss. Our emotions get so moved that is hardly becomes easy for us to convey your feelings. The only thing the family of the deceased wishes is that the other’s should remember their loved one’s life. 

Let us convey our sympathy to the grieving family through a dried lavender wreath. For making a dried lavender wreath you will have to first gather the following materials:

• Dried lavender
• Coat hanger
• Floral wire
• Floral green tape
• Hot glue gun
• Dried foliage
• Hair spray
• A condolence poem

To start with making the condolence wreath you first collect some foliage from the garden. Trim the foliage at a length of 6” for making the wreath. Some suggested foliage that dries well are magnolia, fern, and bay laurel.

Now take the coat hanger to make the wreath base. Simply bend the coat hanger leaving the hook of the hanger as it is for hanging the wreath in the wall. Now wrap a floral wire to cover the entire wreath base. Now choose numerous stems of foliage and place them together in a bunch. Cut the ends of the stems and arrange them facing the opposite direction in the wreath.

Now take the dried lavender and place them on the top of the bundle of foliage. Now place the bundle on the top of the frame where the floral wire is connected. Now hold the bundle tightly in place and cover the entire bundle with floral wire. Wrap the wire twice so that the foliage and the dried lavender remain in their position.

Place one more bundle of dried lavender and foliage and place them in such a manner that the leaves should lie on top of the other. Repeat the same process with each set of dries lavender and foliage. Use floral wire to wrap the entire wreath properly.

Place the first bundle that you have made. Then take the second bundle and put it under the first one. Turn the wire tightly around the last bundle. Tie a Knot when the two ends of the wire meet on the frame. Cut the left over wire using scissors. At last write a condolence poem and tie it at the center of the condolence wreath.