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    White Hydrangea Farmhouse Wreath

    By: Jane · Updated: 8 Jan, '19 · This post may contain affiliate links · 10 Comments

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    This simple and thrifty farmhouse wreath in a tobacco basket is a perfect transitional DIY home decor item.

    Farmhouse wreath in a tobacco basket

    Hi friends. How is your new year going? After I got all the Christmas decorations removed and packed away, I felt that the house looked bare. What? You, too? 

    Today I'm sharing a simple DIY farmhouse wreath that I quickly put together that helps to fill that void. 

    If you remember, at Christmas time, I had a wreath in this same tobacco basket.

    Reproduction tobacco basket

    I've had this reproduction tobacco basket for several years. It's a great piece to give your home a little farmhouse flair. 

    At some point, I thought it was a little dark so I gave it a "white washing" with some watered down acrylic paint. 

    Where we live, real tobacco baskets are easily found since we live in an agricultural area that once grew a lot of tobacco.

    I asked Leo how they were used and he said that once tobacco leaves were harvested, they were sorted and graded and then placed on the large flat baskets.

    Then the tobacco was taken to market on the baskets where the baskets would be flipped over onto croaker (burlap) sacks on the floor.

    My tobacco basket is much smaller than the original ones and since I liked how a wreath looked inside it at Christmas time, I decided to place another one inside. 

    Small boxwood wreath

    I used these white hydrangeas on our mantel and trees at Christmas and had not put them away thinking that I would use them in some way. 

    White hydrangea farmhouse wreath

    So after attaching the wreath to the tobacco basket with some wire, I added 5 of the white hydrangeas to the wreath. 

    White hydrangea farmhouse wreath in a tobacco basket

    And I added a little shimmery ribbon that I had used at Christmas to the wreath. 

    The tobacco basket farmhouse wreath certainly fills the after Christmas void! 

    The rest of the white hydrangeas landed on the mantel and the dough bowl, and they remind me of snowballs! 

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    1. Bliss

      January 15, 2019 at 11:14 am

      Makes me think spring is coming...as long as I don’t look out the window.

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    2. Michelle @ The Painted Hinge

      January 10, 2019 at 10:33 pm

      This is so pretty and perfect for spring!

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    3. Jenna

      January 10, 2019 at 11:21 am

      So pretty Jane!

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    4. Nancie

      January 10, 2019 at 8:35 am

      Jane your winter wreath is so beautiful. I tried to get a wreath at Hobby Lobby but they are out of stock. I’ll have to look around at some of my favorite stores.

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    5. Jane

      January 10, 2019 at 1:43 am

      How cute! I just bought one of these at Hobby Lobby and wasn't sure what I could do to jazz it up!!

      Jane

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    6. Cindy

      January 09, 2019 at 9:22 pm

      Jane, it's such a beautiful, fresh looking wreath for winter...and any time really! I love how you reused items you had!

      Reply
    7. Patti @ Pandora's Box

      January 09, 2019 at 5:50 pm

      So pretty!!

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    8. meegan

      January 09, 2019 at 5:23 pm

      What a beautiful way to celebrate Winter and Spring! I love the combination of rustic and florals.

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    9. Deborah

      January 09, 2019 at 2:17 pm

      Absolutely beautiful!!!

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    10. Kristi Dominguez

      January 09, 2019 at 9:57 am

      Jane-- This is such a darling idea! Loving your use of the tobacco basket. Turned out so sweet with the wreath inside of it.

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